Windy City is a style for biblatex that formats notes, bibliographies, parenthetical citations, and reference lists according to the 17th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. It accurately handles a wide range of citations and includes a set of options and commands to support special circumstances. It also has extensive support for citing and arranging different kinds of editors, translators, and compilers within a single citation. These features make Windy City especially suitable for academic work.
Windy City's latest release is available on CTAN, the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. It includes a PDF of the user guide. More recent changes are available at Windy City's repository on GitHub.
If you already know how to use biblatex, getting started with Windy City is easy. The first task is to confirm that biblatex and Windy City are installed properly on your system. Since both are included in some distributions of LaTeX, you might be able to skip this step.
Windy City consists of four files:
If you need to install Windy City on your system, you have several
options. For a one-off compilation, say, to give Windy City a trial
run on a single document, you could copy Windy City's files to the
document's root directory. Beyond that, your best option is to install
it in your local texmf. Copy the files to a directory of your
choosing, then update your texmf file name database.
To compile a document with Windy City, tell
biblatex to load it
with the load-time option style:
\usepackage[style=windycity]{biblatex}
Typically, this goes in a document's preamble or in one of its style files.
For some entries in your bibliography database, you may need to add
fields or make other adjustments to get the right output. But since
Windy City relies as much as possible on standard BibTeX fields, and
secondarily on biblatex
fields, you may not need to make major changes. The examples in this
document and its accompanying bibliography database,
windycity.bib, should serve as a guide for how to manage your input
for nearly every circumstance that the style is meant to handle.
Under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3, permission is granted to copy, distribute, or modify this software. See also https://www.latex-project.org/lppl/.
This software is provided as is, without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
- biblatex 3.13 or later