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Chicago Style (Author/Date)

Journal article with up to 10 authors

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Last name, First name, First Name Last Name, First Name Last Name, and First Name Last Name. Year. "Article Title." Journal Title Volume, no. (Month or Season): Page Range. DOI/URL.

no. = Issue number

Example three authors:

Danzman, Sarah B., W. Kindred Winecoff, and Thomas Oatley. 2017. "All Crises are Global: Capital Cycles in an Imbalanced International Political Economy." International Studies Quarterly 61, no. 4 (December): 907-923. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqx054.

  • In-text paraphrase: (Danzman, Wincoff, and Oatley 2017).
  • In-text quote: (Danzman, Wincoff, and Oatley 2017, 921).

Example four to ten authors:

Dreher, Jean-Clause, Etienne Koechlin, Michael Tierney, and Jordan Grafman. 2008. “Damage to the
Fronto-Polar Cortex is Associated with Impaired Multitasking.” PLOS One 3, no. 9 (September): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003227.

  • In-text paraphrase: (Dreher et al. 2008).
  • In-text quote: (Dreher et al. 2008, 8).

Missing volume, issue, or month:

  • No volume number: Diogenes, no. 25, 84-117. 
  • No month/season: American Journal of Sociology 119 (4): 1002-46.
  • No issue number: American Naturalist 185 (May): 653-64.
  • No issue number or month/season: American Naturalist 185:653-64

 

Journal articles with more than 10 authors

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Last name, First name, First Name Last Name, First Name Last Name, First Name Last Name, First Name Last Name, First Name Last Name, First Name Last Name, et al. Year. "Article Title." Journal Title Volume, no. (Month or Season): Page Range. DOI/URL.

Example:

Bergh, Cecilia, Monica Callmar, Sophia Danemar, Mats Hölcke, Susanne Isberg, Michael Leon, Jessica Lindgren, et al. 2013. "Effective Treatment of Eating Disorders: Results at Multiple Sites." Behavioral Neuroscience 127 (6): 878–889. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034921.supp.

  • In-text paraphrase: (Bergh et al. 2013).
  • In-text quote: (Bergh et al. 2013, 884).

Note. Only the first author's name is inverted (Last name, First name). For 10 or more authors, only list the first seven followed by et al. (CMOS 14.76).

Magazines (Print and Online with a date)

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Last Name, First Name. Year. "Article Title." Magazine Name, Month Day, Year. URL.

Example:

Preston, Elizabeth. 2015. "How Lasers Can Help Clean up Beach Trash." The Atlantic, July 13, 2015. http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/07/how-lasers-can-help-clean-up-beach-trash/490952/.

  • In-text paraphrase: (Preston 2015).
  • In-text quote: (Preston 2002, para. 8).

 

Note. In Chicago it is sufficient to cite newspaper and magazine articles entirely in the text. See 14.198 and 15.49 for the format for that.

Journal vs. Magazines

In this guide, "Journal" is used for scholarly, academic, peer-reviewed sources and professional publications. 

Examples:

In this guide, "Magazine" is used for popular periodicals meant for general audiences; these can be print or online. 

Examples:

For online articles without a date, see the Websites, Blogs, and Social Media page.