no one does 😭😭😭 i actually can’t find a single example of the basic session paper format even using the site you sent me

my partner might be able to help. she used this style for her M Phil dissertation exclusively and it had a lot of (mostly indian) parliamentary stuff in it.

okay she's being lazy but she says that she used some online citation manager called MyBib

ty!!!!

hope this helps!

MyBib isn't perfect (no citation generator is), but it's the best I've seen in my career and the only one I use. As for getting it done perfectly, it might not be possible, but as long as you've made an effort to be as clear and accurate as can be, you should be ok.

i usually recommend zotero because it's really good at what it does and has a lot of addons/plugins but the last i used it was more than 8 years back and never with a Chicago style bibliography

If I had a use case for it I'd definitely consider using Zotero, subscription pricing and all.

they have subscriptions too now? wow I must be really out of touch, haha

It's kinda freemium, I guess. Free plan gives 300mb storage. Then it's annual subs based on bumped space.

Maybe @drchristinah.bsky.social or @metalclassicist.bsky.social could help?

Oop, my original comment was more or less Allie’s previous comment 😅 I QT’ed this to my own network of historians. I hope someone’s able to help!

i appreciate you!! this has been surprisingly difficult to navigate and every example i could find was a few decades old

Have you tried guides.libraries.emory.edu/UKParliamentaryPapers/british_sessional_papers ? Just found this, but I’ll keep looking

It’s for the 16th style, but I’d like to think there wouldn’t be -too much- of a difference now that we’re on 18. See also files.taylorandfrancis.com/ChicagoStyleGuideHumanities_british.pdf

YES THANK YOU the one site i kept getting redirected to had a paywall

Yay!

i did glance at this one but i think i was thrown off bc of all of the subheadings in the section i was sourcing & also that i kept seeing three different “authors” being used on university sites - i am also quoting from letters enclosed in correspondence WITHIN these papers 🫠

Oof, that sounds like a total mind fuck!

Correspondence and Accounts relating to the different Occasions on which Measures were taken for the Relief to the People suffering from Sacarcity in Ireland, between 1822 and 1839 [734] in Parliamentary Papers: (Volume 13) Scarcity in Ireland. Session 22 January - 28 August 1846. Vol. XXXVII, 1846.

I threw this into MyBib as a report, added in everything I could find, and this was the output. Your prof. might expect you to be more exacting, but considering the details and the working link, plus your own internal paper trail, this should be good enough.

i appreciate this SO much

You could try it as a journal article and maybe get in a few other little details.