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Chicago/Turabian Author-Date

Guide to Chicago/Turabian Author-Date Style.

In-Text Citations

For the notes and bibliography system, sources are cited in numbered footnotes or endnotes. Each note corresponds to a raised (superscript) number in the text. Sources are also usually listed in a separate bibliography.

 

For Author and Date system the information is inside parenthesis

(author's last name date, page number)

Citation:

Boggs, Colleen Glenney. (2016). “Public Reading and the Civil War Draft Lottery.” American Periodicals, 26, no. 2: 149–166. http://search.ebscohost.com/ login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=lih&AN=117364849&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

In-Text Citation:

Historians discovered that the Civil War draft lottery was held in multiple cities across United States (Boggs 2016, 149).

 

1 Author

(Boggs 2016, 149).

2 Authorsno date (use n.d.)

(Abdo and Bobroff, n.d., 171).

3 Authors

(Frutos, Bauer, and Walker 2022, 13).

4 or More Authors - include all author names in the Reference list, but for in-text:

(Williams et al. 2019, 145).

Government/Organizational Author

(United States, Dept. of Labor 2019, 147).

Government/Organizational Author (no page number)

(United States, Dept. of Labor 2019)

(Mayo Clinic 2020).

Webpage (no page number)

With Author - (Davis 2021) 

Without Author - ("The Effects of Climate Change" 2022)

No Author - Article

("Homily" 2018, 97)

For the notes and bibliography system, sources are cited in numbered footnotes or endnotes. Each note corresponds to a raised (superscript) number in the text. Sources are also usually listed in a separate bibliography.

 

For the Author and Date system use the Author's name(s) in the text .... (date, page number).

Citation:

Boggs, Colleen Glenney. (2016). “Public Reading and the Civil War Draft Lottery.” American Periodicals, 26, no. 2: 149–166. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx? direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=lih&AN=117364849&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

In-Text Citation:

Boggs claims that the Civil War draft lottery was held in major cities and well as rural towns (2016, 149).

 

1 Author

Boggs claims...(2016, 149). 

2 Authorsno date (n.d.)

Abdo and Bobroff state...(n.d., 172). 

3 Authors

Similarly, as Frutos, Bauer, and Walker assert...(2022, 7).  

4 or More Authors - include all author names in the Reference list, but for in-text:

Williams et al. states… (2019, 145).

Government/Organizational Author

The United States, Dept. of Labor directs...(2018, 147). 

Government/Organizational Author (no publication date)

U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicates...(n.d., 24-26)

Government/Organizational Author (no page number)

According to the Mayo Clinic... (2020).

Webpage (Webpage no page number)

The webpage "Climate Change Impact" provides information on...(2019).

Webpage (with the author but no page number)

Davis reported that ... (2023).

No Author - Article

In "Homily" ...(2019, 97).