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Chicago/Turabian Author-Date

Guide to Chicago/Turabian Author-Date Style.

Chicago/Turabian Reference Examples

For Notes - Bibliography examples please see:

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html   

 

Below are examples using the Author - Date System

These are the main sections: Author. Date. "Title of Article." Journal Title. vol, issue no: Page number(s).

Author Entries

  • One Author: Last, First Middle.
  • Two or Three Authors: Last, First Middle, First Middle Last, and First Middle Last.
  • Four or More Authors: On the References page write out all authors names, but the in-text citation will be (Last name et al. year, page #).

Examples

One Author, in a Database

Boggs, Colleen Glenney. 2016. “Public Reading and the Civil War Draft Lottery.” American Periodicals 26, no. 2: 149–66. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx? direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=lih&AN=117364849&site=ehost-live&scope=site

One Author, Article on a Webpage (no page numbers)

Alpert-Abrams, Hannah. 2016. “Machine Reading the Primeros Libros.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 10, no. 4: https://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/10/4/000268/000268.html.

Two Authors, with a DOI

Abdo, Diya, and Maria Bobroff. 2018. “Cross-Disciplinary Teaching of Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter.” ADFL Bulletin 45, no. 1: 171-83, https://doi.org/10.1632/adfl.45.1.171.

Three or more Authors, write out all Author Names

Articles with full date – put the year after the author’s name(s) and then add the full date (month, day, year) again before the page number

Frutos, Aaron M., Chantel D. Sloan, and Ray M. Merrill. 2018. "Modeling the Effects of Atmospheric Pressure on Suicide Rates in the USA Using Geographically Weighted Regression." PLoS ONE 13, no.12: December 5, 2018, e0206992. http://link.gale.com/apps/ doc/A564417708/ OVIC?u=lincclin_bwcc&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=e3609843.

No Author ("Title" is listed first)

"The Mozart Effect Myth: Listening to Music Does Not Help Against Epilepsy." 2023.  NewsRx Science, March 26, 2023: 539.  http://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A741959005/ AONE?u=lincclin_bwcc&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=b085d220

Written by the Organization - on a Webpage

Mayo Clinic. 2023. “Belly Fat in Women: Taking-and Keeping-It Off.” Healthy Lifestyle Women’s Health. June 28, 2023, http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/womens-health/in-depth/belly-fat/art-20045809.

For Notes - Bibliography examples please see:

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html   

 

Below are examples using the Author - Date System

Five elements: Author. “Webpage Title.” Website Name, Date. URL. 

Webpage

Denchak, Melissa. "Ocean Pollution: The Dirty Facts." Natural Resources Defense Council, June 7, 2022, http://www.nrdc.org/stories/ocean-pollution-dirty-facts.

Webpage - No Author or No Date – Use n.d. and Include an Accessed Date 

"What is Climate Change?" n.d. United Nations. Accessed August 24, 2023. http://www.un.org/en/climatechange/what-is-climate-change.

Webpage - Organization 

Folgerpedia. 2018. Folger Shakespeare Library, July 17, 2018, http://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Main_Page. 

Webpage – Blog

Howard, Alison. 2023. “How USAID Climate Ready Empowered Local Organizations to Access Finance for Climate Adaptation.” Climate Links (blog), December 4, 2023. https://www.climatelinks.org/blog/how-usaid-climate-ready-empowered-local-organizations-access-finance-climate-adaptation.

Webpage - Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)

"Registered Nurse." Occupational Outlook HandbookBureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor, United States, September 8, 2022, www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/registered-nurses.htm. 

For Notes - Bibliography examples please see:

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html   

 

Below are examples using the Author - Date System

 

Four elements: Author. Title. City, Publisher, year.

(URL is included if book is found on the Internet).  

Examples

Book 

Davis, Angela Y. Blues Legends and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday. New York: Pantheon, 1998. 

Book by an Unknown Author, Translated Book 

Beowulf. Translated by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy. New Jersey: Pearson, 2004.

Book with Editor(s)

Baron, Sabrina Alcorn, ed. Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth LEisenstein. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press/Library of Congress, Center for the Book, 2007.

Book with Edition

Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Edited by Deidre Shauna Lynch. 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009.

Book Chapter 

Seyhan, Azade. "Novel Moves." In Tales of Crossed Destinies: The Modern Turkish Novel in a Comparative Context, 1-22. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2008. 

Book - Story/ Poem/ Play 

Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Masque of the Red Death." In The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. James A. Harrison, 250-58. Vol. 4. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1902. 

Book on a website (include URL) 

Romm, Joseph. Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Climate_Change/ 3XMRDAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=climate+change&printsec=frontcover.

Poe, Edgar Allan. Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Madness. Illustrated by Gris Grimly. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Edgar_Allan_Poe_s_ Tales_of_Mystery_and_M/cXddTSrPdE8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=edgar+allan+poe+free+books&printsec=frontcover.

E-Book (a downloaded file, typically EPUB, read on a device or computer, Do not include URL, instead list database name) 

O’Connor, Patricia. Woe is I: The Grammarphobee's Guide to Better English in Plain English.  New York: Riverhead Books, 2009. EBSCOhost.

Crystal, David. Making a Point: The Persnickety Story of English Punctuation. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2015. GALE eBooks.

For Notes - Bibliography examples please see:

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html   

 

Below are examples using the Author - Date System

Video - YouTube

"Air Canada: We're in the Business of You." Uploaded by Air Canada April 8, 2019. YouTube video. 1.34. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE9AFpsg7H8. 

Movie (Netflix, Hulu, Xfinity) 

Spielberg, Steven, dir. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.  Los Angeles, CA: Universal Pictures, 1982.

Television Episode

Famuyiwa, Rick, dir. The Mandalorian. Season 1, episode 2, "The Child." Disney, 2019.

Video - TED Talk 

Iyer, Pico. "The Art of Stillness." Filmed August 2014 in New York, NY. TED video. 15.28. https://www.ted.com/talks/pico_iyer_the_art_of_stillness.

For Notes - Bibliography examples please see:

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html   

 

Below are examples using the Author - Date System

Facebook 

World Wildlife Fund. "Five Things to Know on Shark Awareness Day." Facebook, July 14, 2020. http://www.facebook.com/worldwildlifefund/videos/745925785979440/.

Podcast 

"Yiyun Li Reads 'On the Street Where You Live.'" The Writer's Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker, hosted by Deborah Treisman. Podcast, The New Yorker/WNYC, January 3, 2017. iTunes app.

X/Twitter 

Ng, Celeste [@pronounced_ing]. Photo of a letter from Shirley Jackson. Twitter, January 22, 2018, http://twitter.com/pronounced_ing/status/955528799357231104. 

Image from a database (Artstor)

Fusco, Paul. USA. San Francisco, California. 1991. Homelessness. Laurie and Bob have been on the streets 4 yrs. It's beginning to wear her out. Paul Fusco/Magmum Photos. 1991. https://library-artstor-org.db03.linccweb.org/asset/AMAGNUMIG_10311533918.

Image from a Google search 

Buchholz, Erich. 1920. Untitled. Gouache on paper. Museum of Modern Art, New York. http://www.momo.org/collection/workds/38187.

Please confirm with your Professor that using a generative AI tool (ex: ChatGPT) is allowed for your assignment. Some Professors do not allow these tools to be used. If a generative AI tool is allowed, you must cite the information to avoid plagiarism.

 

Chicago considers your prompt as generating a personal response and link (though not publicly accessible) so you treat the citation as a personal communication. You can acknowledge the citation information in the text, but any information not in the text would be added within an in-text citation.

For more information, please see:

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Documentation/faq0422.html

 

Example:

“(ChatGPT, September 22, 2023).”

Because the citation is considered a personal communication, you do not include it in your References or Bibliography list.