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Chicago 17th Edition Citation Guide

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After citing a source the first time as a note, it is appropriate to use a shortened version of the citation when citing the same resource. If you cite citing the same source three or more times in a row, you can use Ibid. followed by page number.

Footnote/Endnote Example:

  • Full citation: 16. Zanette,T. Glørstad and Ingunn Røstad, "Echoes of the Past: Women, Memories and Disc-on-Bow Brooches in Vendel- and Viking-Period Scandinavia," European Journal of Archaeology 24, no.1 (2021): 89-107.doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2020.23.
  • Shortened Citation: 17. Zanette & Røstad, "Echoes of the Past", 92.
Journal Article (Library Database)

Footnote/Endnote 

Author First Name and Last Name, "Title of Article," Title of Journal Volume #, no. Issue # (Date of Publication): Page #, DOI/URL.

Example: 

18. Michelle Orihel, “‘All Those Truly Acquainted with the History of Those Times’: John Adams and the Opposition Politics of Revolutionary England, ca. 1640-41,” The New England Quarterly 86, no. 3 (2013): 455, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43285009.

Bibliography

Author Last Name, Author First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Journal Volume #, no. Issue # (Date of Publication): First Page # - Last Page #, DOI/URL.

Example: 

Orihel, Michelle.‘All Those Truly Acquainted with the History of Those Times’: John Adams and the Opposition Politics of Revolutionary England, ca. 1640-41.” The New England Quarterly 86, no. 3 (2013): 433–66. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43285009.

Journal Article (Two Authors)

Footnote/Endnote 

Author A First and Last Name and Author B First and Last Name, "Title of Article," Title Of Journal Volume #, no. Issue # (Date of Publication): Page #, DOI/URL.

Example: 

42. Zanette,T. Glørstad and Ingunn Røstad, "Echoes of the Past: Women, Memories and Disc-on-Bow Brooches in Vendel- and Viking-Period Scandinavia," European Journal of Archaeology 24, no.1 (2021): 89-107.doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2020.23.

Bibliography

Author A Last Name, Author A First Name and Author B First and Last Name. "Title of Article." Title of Journal Volume #, no. Issue # (Date of Publication): First Page # - Last Page #, DOI/URL.

Example: 

Glørstad, Zanette,T. and Ingunn Røstad. "Echoes of the Past: Women, Memories and Disc-on-Bow Brooches in Vendel- and Viking-Period Scandinavia." European Journal of Archaeology 24, no. 1 (2021): 89-107. doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2020.23.

Journal Article (Three Authors)

Footnote/Endnote 

Author A First and Last Name, Author B First and Last Name, Author C Frist and Last Name, "Title of Article," Title Of Journal Volume #, no. Issue # (Date of Publication): Page #, DOI/URL.

Example: 

95. Tia Gaynor, Seong C. Kang, and Brian N. Williams, “Segregated Spaces and Separated Races: The Relationship Between State-Sanctioned Violence, Place, and Black Identity.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 7 no. 1 (2021): 4, https://doi.org/10.7758/rsf.2021.7.1.04.

Bibliography

Author A Last Name, Author A First Name and Author B First and Last Name and Author C First and Last Name. "Title of Article." Title of Journal Volume #, no. Issue # (Date of Publication): First Page # - Last Page #, DOI/URL.

Example: 

Gaynor, Tia Sherèe, Seong C. Kang, and Brian N. Williams. “Segregated Spaces and Separated Races: The Relationship Between State-Sanctioned Violence, Place, and Black Identity.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 7, no. 1 (2021): 50–66. https://doi.org/10.7758/rsf.2021.7.1.04.

Journal Article (Four or More Authors)

  • For your footnote, list up to three authors. If there are more than three, name only the first author, followed by “et al.” 
  • In the bibliography, list up to 10 authors. If there are more than 10, list the first seven followed by “et al.”

Footnote/Endnote 

Author First Name and Last Name et al. "Title of Article," Title of Journal Volume #, no. Issue # (Date of Publication): Page #, DOI/URL

<Example: 

18. Anak Agung Gede Paka et al. "Bali is Dressing-Up: Ritual as an Identity." Journal of Environmental Management & Tourism 11, no. 6 (Fall, 2020): 1560-1570. doi:https://doi.org/10.14505/jemt.v11.

Bibliography

Author A Last Name, Author A Last Name, Author B First and Last Name, Author C First and Last Name... "Title of Article." Title of Journal Volume #, no. Issue # (Date of Publication): First page # - Last page #. DOI/URL.

Example: 

18. Paka, Anak Agung Gede, Novi Anoegrajekti, Putu Ngurah Suyatna Yasa, Sudartomo Macaryus, and Anak Agung Gede Raka Gunawarman. "Bali is Dressing-Up: Ritual as an Identity." Journal of Environmental Management & Tourism 11, no. 6 (Fall, 2020): 1560-1570. doi:https://doi.org/10.14505/jemt.v11.

Magazine/Newspaper

  • For magazine or newspaper articles found online, put the URL at the end of your citation

Footnote/Endnote 

Author First and Last Name, "Title of Article," Title of Publication, Date of Publication, page #.

Example: 

2. Andrew Curry, "The Lost World of Lihyan: A Forgotten City of Spice Traders Once Ruled the Oases of Northern Arabia," Archaeology Magazine, March/April 2021, 30.

Bibliography

Author Last Name, Author First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Publication, Date of Publication

Example: 

Curry, Andrew. "The Lost World of Lihyan: A Forgotten City of Spice Traders Once Ruled the Oases of Northern Arabia." Archaeology Magazine. March/April 2021.