Chicago Citation Guide - 17th Edition

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Hello! In this video tutorial, we will learn how to cite books and eBooks using the Chicago Author-Date style.

There are two styles within Chicago: author-date and notes and bibliography. The author-date style lists the date component second in a citation and uses in-text citations to refer to ideas within a paper. This tutorial will cover the basics of the author-date style.

The examples in this tutorial include a basic book, a chapter in an edited book, an eBook, and what to do if you have multiple authors or if a book has an edition statement.

Example 1: A Book With One Author

For the first example, you will learn the basics of how to cite a book.

To locate the information you need to cite the book, turn to the title page. The first piece of information you need is the author of the book.

To list an author, type the name in reverse order. Type the last name, a comma, and the first name, followed by a period. If the author's middle name or initial is given, include it after the first name.

References Example:
Kammen, Michael.

Next identify the date that the book was published. This may be on the title page, or you may need to look on the back of the title page.

Type the date after the author, followed by a period.

References Example:
Kammen, Michael. 2006.

Next, identify the title of the book. Even though there is no colon on the title page, A History of Art Controversies in American Culture is in a smaller font; this shows that it is the subtitle and should be separated from the title with a colon.

List the title of the book, in italics, after the date. Capitalize first word of the title, the first word of the subtitle, which comes after the colon, and all important words. Place a period after the title.

References Example:
Kammen, Michael. 2006. Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture.

Finally, identify the publication location and the name of the publisher. This is usually found on the title page.

Type the city, a comma, and the state abbreviation if the city is not well known. Type a colon and then the publisher's name, followed by a period. This completes the citation.

References Example:
Kammen, Michael. 2006. Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf.

If you refer to a work in your paper, either by directly quoting, paraphrasing, or by referring to main ideas, you will need to include an in-text parenthetical citation. There are a number of ways to do this. In this example, a signal phrase is used to introduce a direct quote. The author's name is included within the text, and the publication date and page number(s) are enclosed in parentheses at the end of the sentence. The period is placed after the in-text citation.

In-Text Example:
Americans have increasingly shown their support of art through museum visits. As reported by Kammen, "attendance at art museums rose from 22 million per year to well over 100 million in 2000" (2006, 304).

Example 2: A Chapter in an Edited Book

In this next example, the book is overseen by editors, but each chapter has a different author. If you are only using information from a single chapter, you will cite that chapter only. You will need to locate the same citation components as the first example, but also the title, author, and page ranges of the chapter you are citing.

First, begin with the author of the chapter you are using and then the date of the book.

References Example:
Nelson, Claudia. 2011.

Next, list the title of the chapter. Enclose the title of the chapter in quotation marks. For this example, the first word of the title is italicized since it is the title of a book, but the rest of the chapter title is not italicized. Type a period at the end of the chapter title.

References Example:
Nelson, Claudia. 2011. "Jade and the Tomboy Tradition."

After the chapter title, type the word In, then the italicized book title, a comma, the phrase edited by, and the editors' name in normal order. Then type a comma and list the page numbers of the chapter, followed by a period.

References Example:
Nelson, Claudia. 2011. "Jade and the Tomboy Tradition." In The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature, edited by Julia L. Mickenburg and Lynne Vallone, 497-517.

Complete the citation with the publication location and publisher, as shown in the previous example.

References Example:
Nelson, Claudia. 2011. "Jade and the Tomboy Tradition." In The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature, edited by Julia L. Mickenburg and Lynne Vallone, 497-517. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Be sure to use the author of the chapter within your in-text citation, not the editor of the book. If you do not introduce the author's name in the narrative, it is the first component in the parenthetical citation.

In-Text Example:
Furthermore, "preindustrial America was a comparatively permissive environment for the prepubescent [girl]" (Nelson 2011, 502).

Example 3: An eBook with Multiple Authors and Editions

In the last example, there are a few new characteristics. This is an eBook located through a library database. The eBook has two authors, and it is a second edition. You will need to include this information in your citation.

Once you have found and opened an eBook, scroll to the title page to locate the citation components.

For books with two authors, list the first author's name in reverse order, followed by a comma and the word and. Then list the next author in normal order. For books with three or more authors, separate the authors' names with commas and place the and before the last author's name.

References Example:
Metcalfe, Barbara D., and Thomas R. Metcalfe.

List the date, a period, and then the title, in italics, followed by a period.

References Example:
Metcalfe, Barbara D., and Thomas R. Metcalfe. 2006. A Concise History of Modern India.

Type the edition number, followed by ed., which stands for edition.

References Example:
Metcalfe, Barbara D., and Thomas R. Metcalfe. 2006. A Concise History of Modern India. 2nd ed.

List the publication location and publisher as before, ending with a period.

References Example:
Metcalfe, Barbara D., and Thomas R. Metcalfe. 2006. A Concise History of Modern India. 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

When citing an eBook from a database, include the name of the database. The name of this database, Ebook Central, is listed at the top of the screen.

List the name of the database at the end of the citation in a normal font, ending with a period. This concludes the citation.

References Example:
Metcalfe, Barbara D., and Thomas R. Metcalfe. 2006. A Concise History of Modern India. 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Ebook Central.

List both author's names in the in-text citation, separated by the word and.

In-Text Example:
Metcalfe and Metcalfe discuss how Hastings "took care to accommodate caste and religious sensibilities in the army" (2006, 61).

For more examples and additional situations you may encounter when citing books and other types of sources, visit the Tyree Library's Chicago Citation guide. This can be found by visiting the Library's website, clicking Guides, How-To Guides, and then Chicago Citation Guide. Be sure to choose the Author-Date section.

This concludes the video tutorial on citing books and eBooks using the Chicago Author-Date style. If you have any questions, please contact a librarian.

707-468-3245
librarian@mendocino.edu
https://mclib.mendocino.edu//library

Chicago Author-Date: Citing Journal Articles from Lawrence W. Tyree Library on Vimeo.

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This video tutorial will demonstrate how to cite journal articles using the Chicago author-date citation style.

There are two styles within Chicago: author-date and notes and bibliography. The author-date style lists the date component second in a citation, and uses in-text citations to refer to ideas within a paper. This tutorial will cover the basics of the author-date style.

Author-Date:
Author. Date. Title. Location: Publisher.

Notes & Bibliography:
Author. Title. Location: Publisher, Date.

This tutorial will show the basics for citing a print journal and how to cite online journal articles.

Example 1: A Print Journal Article

For the first example, you will learn how to cite a journal article that you found in print.

The first step is to identify the authors of this article. There are two authors listed: Alex J. Bowers and Ryan Sprott.

To list an author, write the last name, a comma, and the first name. If the author has a middle name or middle initial, include that as well. A second author will follow after a comma and the word and, in normal order. List a period at the end of the last author’s name.

Example:
Bowers, Alex J., and Ryan Sprott.

Next, identify the date this article was published. For journal articles, you only need the year. In this case, this article was published in 2012. You can typically find the date at the top of the article, or on the cover of the journal.

List the date after the authors followed by a period.

Example:
Bowers, Alex J., and Ryan Sprott. 2012.

Next, identify the title of the article. The title will usually be at the very top of the article, in a larger size font. Include the subtitle, which comes after a colon.

The title of the article comes after the date, in quotation marks. Capitalize all important words, including the first words of the title and subtitle. End the title with a period, before the closing quotation mark.

Example:
Bowers, Alex J., and Ryan Sprott. 2012. “Examining the Multiple Trajectories Associated with Dropping Out of High School: A Growth Mixture Model Analysis.”

The last information you need is the journal information. In this case, you need the title of the journal, along with the volume, issue (sometimes called number), and page range for the article. Usually this information can be found on the cover of the journal, on the table of contents, or at the top of the article. For the page range, you should look at the first and last pages of the article.

Type the journal title, in italics, capitalizing all major words, the volume, the number or issue in parentheses, a colon, and then the page range of the article. This concludes the citation.

Example:
Bowers, Alex J., and Ryan Sprott. 2012. “Examining the Multiple Trajectories Associated with Dropping Out of High School: A Growth Mixture Model Analysis.” The Journal of Educational Research 105 (3): 176–195.

If you refer to a work in your paper, either by directly quoting, paraphrasing, or by referring to main ideas, you will need to include an in-text parenthetical citation. There are a number of ways to do this. In this example, a signal phrase is used to introduce a direct quote. Note that the author(s) name is given in the text, and the publication date and page number(s) are enclosed in parentheses at the end of the sentence.

Example:
Bowers and Sprott claim that “students’ dropping out of high schools in the United States is a well known and pervasive problem” (2012, 176).

Example 2: A Journal Article Found Online with a DOI

Often, you will find journal articles online using the library’s databases or other online resources. This article was found online using the database Academic Search Complete.

Most of the information you need to cite an article can be found in the database’s record. In this database, the title is at the top and the date and journal information are in the line that says Source.

Because this article is found online, you need one more element. You need the DOI, which stands for Digital Object Identifier. A DOI can be found in the article’s record, or sometimes on the first page of the article.

All the elements of the journal article will be cited like the first example. The DOI will be included at the end, after the prefix https://doi.org/. Place a period after the DOI.

Example:
Confino, Alon. 2012. “Miracles and Snow in Palestine and Israel: Tantura, a History of 1948.” Israel Studies 17 (2): 25–61. https://doi.org/10.2979/israelstudies.17.2.25.

Example 3: A Journal Article Found Online without a DOI

Not all journal articles will have a DOI. If you have looked through the article and database record carefully and cannot find one, you will need to give a stable URL.

Some databases, like JSTOR, will list a stable URL in the record.

In other databases, you may need to click a permalink icon to generate one. Do not use the URL in the browser bar, as this URL will change each time the article is accessed.

Cite the article as normal, but add the stable URL at the end, followed by a period.

Example:
Byrne, Edmund F. 2002. “Business Ethics: A Helpful Hybrid in Search of Integrity.” Journal of Business Ethics 37 (2): 121–133. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25074740.

For any work with more than four authors, in-text citations only need to include the first author’s last name and then the abbreviation et al. which means “and all the rest.”

Example:
Penprase, Barbara, Lisa Mileto, Andrea Bittinger, Anne Marie Hranchook, Jana A. Atchley, Sarah Bergakker, Treavor Eimers, and Holly Franson. 2012. "The Use of High-Fidelity Simulation in the Admissions Process: One Nurse Anesthesia Program's Experience." AANA Journal 80 (1): 43–48. http://db25.linccweb.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=73463888&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

For example, “stimulation has been successfully used in healthcare for skills attainment” (Penprase et al. 2012, 43).

For more examples and additional situations you may encounter when citing journal articles, visit the Santa Fe Library’s Chicago Citation Guide. This can be found by visiting the library’s website, clicking Guides > Citation Guides and then Chicago Citation Guide. Choose Author-Date in the left navigation menu.

This concludes the video tutorial on citing journal articles using Chicago author-date. If you still have questions, please contact a librarian:

707-468-3245
librarian@mendocino.edu
https://mclib.mendocino.edu/

Chicago Author-Date: Citing Videos from Lawrence W. Tyree Library on Vimeo.

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This video tutorial will demonstrate how to cite videos using the Chicago author-date citation style.

There are two styles within Chicago: author-date and notes and bibliography. The author-date style lists the date component second in a citation, and uses in-text citations to refer to ideas within a paper. This tutorial will cover the basics of the author-date style.

Author-Date:
Author. Date. Title. Location: Publisher.

Notes & Bibliography:
Author. Title. Location: Publisher, Date.

This tutorial will show the basics for citing a DVD, a streaming video, and an online video such as a YouTube video.

Example 1: A DVD

For the first example, you will learn how to cite a DVD or another physical video such as a Blu-Ray or VHS.

The first step is to identify the director of the film. You can find the director on the DVD case, in the library catalog record, or by looking on IMDB.com.

List the director’s name in reverse order, followed by a comma, and then the abbreviation dir., which stands for director.

Example:
Edelman, Ezra, dir.

Next, identify the date the film was first released. Use the theatrical release date, not the DVD release date.

List the year after the director, followed by a period.

Example:
Edelman, Ezra, dir. 2016.

Next, identify the title of the film. This title is O.J.: Made in America.

List the title of the DVD after the date, in italics, followed by a period. Capitalize all important words.

Example:
Edelman, Ezra, dir. 2016. O.J.: Made in America.

Now, identify the DVD or Blu-Ray disc information. Look for the publisher, location, and release date of the DVD. This can be found on the disc case or in the library catalog.

List the location followed by a colon, the publisher, a comma, and then the DVD release date. End with a period.

Example:
Edelman, Ezra, dir. 2016. O.J.: Made in America. Owensboro, KY: Team Marketing, 2016.

Finally, end with the format of the video. This could be VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray disc, or another format. End the citation with a period.

Example:
Edelman, Ezra, dir. 2016. O.J.: Made in America. Owensboro, KY: Team Marketing, 2016. DVD.

If you refer to a work in your paper, either by directly quoting, paraphrasing, or by referring to main ideas, you will need to include an in-text parenthetical citation. Note that the director’s name and the publication date are enclosed in parentheses at the end of this sentence.

Example:
David Gascon is quoted as saying “That wasn’t a police chase, that’s an accompaniment” (Edelman 2016).

Example 2: Streaming Videos

Streaming videos may be found through the library’s Films on Demand database, or through another streaming service, such as Netflix. These are videos that you watch entirely online.

Films on Demand videos will have limited information. Look for a producer to serve as the author or creator. The title will be listed underneath the embedded video.

To locate the date, click the Citation link and find the date listed in the MLA citation.

For a permalink, click the Embed/Link option and copy the Record URL.

To assemble the citation, provide the producer, date, and video title (in italics), with periods separating each component. End with the date you accessed the video, a period, the words Films on Demand video, a period, and then the permalink for the video.

Example:
INTELICOM. 2011. Virtue Ethics. Accessed July 2, 2018. Films on Demand video. https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=99198&xtid=70861.

Example 3: YouTube Video

This example will show you how to cite an online video, such as a YouTube video or TED talk.

Look at the YouTube page to locate the creator, date, title, length, and URL of the video. The Share button will provide a shortened URL.

A YouTube video citation is similar to the past examples. Use the YouTube user name for the author. List the year after the user name, and then the video title, in quotation marks. Provide the full date, a period, and then the words YouTube video. Next, after a comma, provide the length of the video, a period, and then the URL.

Example:
Smithsonian Channel. 2015. “How and Why the Great Wall of China Was Really Built.” August 28, 2015. YouTube video, 4:52. https://youtu.be/m68zyXyeYG0.

For more examples and additional situations you may encounter when citing videos, visit the Santa Fe Library’s Chicago Citation Guide. This can be found by visiting the library’s website, clicking Guides > Citation Guides and then Chicago Citation Guide. Choose Author-Date in the left navigation menu.

This concludes the video tutorial on citing videos using the Chicago author-date style. If you still have questions, please contact a librarian:

707-468-3245
librarian@mendocino.edu
https://mclib.mendocino.edu/

Chicago Author-Date: Citing Web Resources from Lawrence W. Tyree Library on Vimeo.

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This video tutorial will demonstrate how to cite Web resources using the Chicago author-date citation style.

There are two styles within Chicago: author-date and notes and bibliography. The author-date style lists the date component second in a citation, and uses in-text citations to refer to ideas within a paper. This tutorial will cover the basics of the author-date style.

Author-Date:
Author. Date. Title. Location: Publisher.

Notes & Bibliography:
Author. Title. Location: Publisher, Date.

This tutorial will show the basics for citing a web page, a blog post, and if you are missing a date.

Example 1: A Web Page

For the first example, you will learn how to cite a Web page.

The first step is to identify the author of the Web page. While resources are often written by specific people, sometimes an entire organization is the author. In this case, since the author is listed as Mayo Clinic Staff, and not a specific person, Mayo Clinic is the author.

To list a specific author, write the last name, a comma, and the first and/or middle names, followed by a period. For organizational authors, however, simply list the name of the organization, capitalizing all important words.

Example:
Mayo Clinic.

Next, identify when this Web page was published. Dates are usually found near the top or the bottom of the page. Do not use a copyright date. In this case, the date is 2013.

List the year after the author, followed by a period.

Example:
Mayo Clinic. 2013.

Next, identify the title of the Web page. The title will usually be above the text, in a larger size font. In this case, the title is Stem Cell Transplant.

The title of the page is listed after the date, in quotation marks, followed by a period.

Example:
Mayo Clinic. 2013. “Stem Cell Transplant.”

Next, identify the title of the website that this page is a part of. In this case, the website is Mayo Clinic. If you are having trouble locating the name of the website, try looking at the URL.

The title of the website is listed after the Web page title, with a period at the end. In this case, the title of the website is identical to the author, so this will be omitted.

Example:
Mayo Clinic. 2013. “Stem Cell Transplant.” Mayo Clinic.

If you have a more complete date beyond the year, such as in this example, you will include that next. If you only have a year, skip this component.

Type the date with the month, day, a comma, and then the year. End with a period.

Example:
Mayo Clinic. 2013. “Stem Cell Transplant.” March 23, 2013.

The last information you need is the URL or Web address. You can find this in the address bar at the top of the browser.

Type or paste the URL after the full date or website title. End with a period. This completes your citation.

Example:
Mayo Clinic. 2013. “Stem Cell Transplant.” March 23, 2013. http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/stem-cell-transplant/in-depth/stem-cells/ART-20048117?p=1.

If you refer to a work in your paper, either by directly quoting, paraphrasing, or by referring to main ideas, you will need to include an in-text parenthetical citation. There are several ways to do this. In this example, a signal phrase is used to introduce a direct quote. Note that the author’s name is given in the text, and the publication date is enclosed in parentheses at the end of the sentence. Unless there are specific page numbers or numbered paragraphs, you should not include them in an in-text citation.

Example:
The Mayo Clinic states that “stem cells may have the potential to be grown to become new tissue for use in transplant and regenerative medicine” (2013).

Example 2: Blog Posts

Blog posts are cited similarly to Web pages. You will want to identify the author of the post, the title of the post, the blog name, date, and URL.

Assemble your citation components in the same order. The only difference in the formatting is that blog titles are italicized. If you would like to clarify that this resource is a blog, you can place the word blog in parentheses after its title. There is also a sponsor for this blog, so that is added after the blog title.

Example:
Howard. 2017. “Lumia: The Art of Light.” Eye Level (blog), Smithsonian American Art Museum. October 4, 2017. https://americanart.si.edu/blog/eye-level/2017/04/56195/lumia-art-light.

Example 3: No Date

Sometimes a Web page may not provide all of the information you need for a citation. This resource does not include a date.

Cite the Web page as in the first example. For the first date component, type n.d., which stands for no date. In the second date component, type Accessed and then include the date you accessed the resource.

Example:
Marie-Bénédicte, Astier. n.d. “The Winged Victory of Samothrace.” Louvre. Accessed July 3, 2018. https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/winged-victory-samothrace.

For in-text citations with no date, use the abbreviation n.d.

Example:
Marie-Bénédicte (n.d.) discusses the disparity between the sculptural detail on the left and right sides.

For more examples and additional situations you may encounter when citing Web resources, visit the Santa Fe Library’s Chicago Citation Guide. This can be found by visiting the library’s website, clicking Guides > Citation Guides and then Chicago Citation Guide. Choose Author-Date in the left navigation menu.

This concludes the video tutorial on citing Web resources using Chicago author-date. If you still have questions, please contact a librarian:

707-468-3245
librarian@mendocino.edu
https://mclib.mendocino.edu/