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Chicago Author-Date Citation Style

Scholarly and Professional Journal Articles

 

Bibliographic citations for articles accessed in electronic format should be given with either a URL or a URL based on a digital object identifier (DOI). If available, the DOI is preferable. Note that access dates are not required in CMS 17.

Also, for some electronic journals, page numbers are not available. In these cases, use a section heading or other locator to orient the reader.

Reference list

Lastname, Firstname M.  Year. "Article Title." Full Journal Title Volume (Issue): Inclusive Article Page Range. URL.

Osucha, Eden. 2015. "Race and the Regulation of Intimacy in the Moynihan Report, the Griswold Decision, and Morrison's Paradise." American Literary History 27 (2): 256-84. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajv013.

In text citation

(Osucha 2015, 260)

Magazine Articles

The main difference between a magazine citation and a journal citation is the volume information (for more: CMS 16 14.172).  Magazines do not include volume and/or issue information even if they are available.  Instead they are designated by month or season and year.  If it is unclear which to use, use the Journal Citation form.  

Bibliographic citations for articles accessed in electronic format should be given with a URL.  Note that access dates are not required.

Reference list

Page numbers are optional in the bibliography, as magazine articles are often broken up over an issue.  Also, for some electronic journals, page numbers are not available. A URL should be included instead.  

Lastname, Firstname M. Year. "Article Title." Full Magazine Title,  Month Day, Year. page range. URL.

Economist. 2016. "Doping and Hacking." July 30, 2016. http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21702755-russia-waging-silent-war-international-order-doping-and-hacking.

Newspaper Articles

Reference list

Citations for newspapers are optional in the reference list; however, if you are using only a few newspaper articles in your writing or if a newspaper article is particularly important to your argument, you may choose to cite it as you would a magazine.  If a headline is printed in capital letters, convert it to upper and lower case.  

Lastname, Firstname. Year. "Article Title." Full Newspaper Title,  Date Month, Year. URL or DOI.

Calloway, Earl. 1989. "Soprano Leontyne Price Sings a Gala Concert for Wheaton." Chicago Defender, October 14, 1989. http://search.proquest.com/docview/246853363.

Luther. 1879. "Incendiary: Violent Talk Indulged in by Maine Radicals." Boston Globe, December 22, 1879, 1.   http://search.proquest.com/docview/492357808.

In text citation

("Soprano Leontyne Price Sings a Gala Concert for Wheaton," Chicago Defender, October 14, 1989)