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CHICAGO/TURABIAN ONLINE STYLE GUIDES

CITING JOURNALS AND ARTICLES

Article in a print journal

N:
8. John Maynard Smith, “The Origin of Altruism,” Nature 393 (1998): 639.

B:
Smith, John Maynard. “The Origin of Altruism.” Nature 393 (1998): 639–40.

T:
(Smith 1998, 639)

R:
Smith, John Maynard. 1998. The origin of altruism. Nature 393: 639–40.

Article in an online journal

If an access date is required by your publisher or discipline, include it parenthetically at the end of the citation, as in the fourth example below.

N:
33. Mark A. Hlatky et al., "Quality-of-Life and Depressive Symptoms in Postmenopausal Women after Receiving Hormone Therapy: Results from the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS) Trial," Journal of the American Medical Association 287, no. 5 (2002), http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n5/rfull/joc10108.html#aainfo.

B:
Hlatky, Mark A., Derek Boothroyd, Eric Vittinghoff, Penny Sharp, and Mary A. Whooley. "Quality-of-Life and Depressive Symptoms in Postmenopausal Women after Receiving Hormone Therapy: Results from the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS) Trial." Journal of the American Medical Association 287, no. 5 (February 6, 2002), http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n5/rfull/joc10108.html#aainfo.

T:
(Hlatky et al. 2002)

R:
Hlatky, Mark A., Derek Boothroyd, Eric Vittinghoff, Penny Sharp, and Mary A. Whooley. 2002. Quality-of-life and depressive symptoms in postmenopausal women after receiving hormone therapy: Results from the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS) trial. Journal of the American Medical Association 287, no. 5 (February 6), http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n5/rfull/joc10108.html#aainfo (accessed January 7, 2004).

Popular magazine article

N:
29. Steve Martin, “Sports-Interview Shocker,” New Yorker, May 6, 2002, 84.

B:
Martin, Steve. “Sports-Interview Shocker.” New Yorker, May 6, 2002.

T:
(Martin 2002, 84)

R:
Martin, Steve. 2002. Sports-interview shocker. New Yorker, May 6.

Newspaper article

Newspaper articles may be cited in running text (“As William Niederkorn noted in a New York Times article on June 20, 2002, . . . ”) instead of in a note or an in-text citation, and they are commonly omitted from a bibliography or reference list as well. The following examples show the more formal versions of the citations.

N:
10. William S. Niederkorn, “A Scholar Recants on His ‘Shakespeare’ Discovery,” New York Times, June 20, 2002, Arts section, Midwest edition.

B:
Niederkorn, William S. “A Scholar Recants on His ‘Shakespeare’ Discovery.” New York Times, June 20, 2002, Arts section, Midwest edition.

T:
(Niederkorn 2002)

R:
Niederkorn, William S. 2002. A scholar recants on his “Shakespeare” discovery. New York Times, June 20, Arts section, Midwest edition.


Chicago Manual of Style

NOTES:

Printed Articles

  • In notes, only the page number(s), where the cited reference appears, is given
  • For the bibliography, the page numbers for the entire article (i.e. from the first to the last page) are given (17.168)
  • The year may be used alone, or preceded by a month, or a season (17.164), e.g. (April 1999), (Spring 1992), (March-April 1997).

Online Articles

  • You may want to include the full URL to the article if it appears to be stable and not too long. End the URL with a period.
  • If you provide a shorter version of the URL (as in the example above), note that the URL ends with a 'slash' before a period.
  • Although Chicago does not recommend that access dates be cited for electronic sources (17.12), certain publishers or disciplines may require this information. In these cases, the date of retrieval should be placed in parentheses directly after the URL, for example: http://ww.apa.org/psycinfo/ (accessed June 24, 2005).

Printed Magazines

  • Weekly or monthly magazines are cited by date only, even if there is a volume/issue number.
  • Note that there is a comma, not a colon, after the date.

Online Magazines

  • Although Chicago does not recommend that access dates be cited for electronic sources (17.12), certain publishers or disciplines may require this information. In these cases, the access date should be placed in parentheses directly after the URL, for example: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1079501-2,00.html (accessed July 24, 2005).

Newspaper Articles

  • If no author is provided, the name of the newspaper should be used in the bibliography instead (17.192).

SFU Citation Guide

KEY

Below are some common examples of materials cited in both styles.

Humanities Style:

  • N = notes that are found in either the end-notes or the footnotes
  • B = bibliographic entries that are included at the end of the paper

Author-Date System:

  • T = in-text citation included within the work
  • R = a reference-list entry, that is again included at the end of the paper