Subject guides: Chicago 17th (A) Notes and Bibliography: Journal articles

Journal articles

For quotations and references to specific passages, only the page(s) concerned are given in the footnote. In the bibliography, the first and last page span is given.
You can usually omit parts of a reference if the information is not available (e.g. a journal article with no volume or issue number).
The Chicago Manual of Style does not require that access dates be included in references to formally published online sources, unless no date of publication is provided.
Non-English Names in an English Context - Naming conventions for non-English authors may differ, refer to the manual.

Journal articles

Footnote

Format

Note number. Author Full Name, “Title of Article,” Title of Publication Volume, no. Issue (Month or Season and/or Year): Page(s), DOI or URL if online.

Example

1. Jennifer Glass and Philip Levchak, “Red States, Blue States, and Divorce: Understanding the Impact of Conservative Protestantism on Regional Variation in Divorce Rates,” American Journal of Sociology 119, no. 4 (2014): 1002-46, https://doi.org/10.1086/674703.

2. Eliyahu Stern, “Genius and Demographics in Modern Jewish History,” Jewish Quarterly Review 101, no. 3 (Summer 2011): 348, http://www.jstor-org.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/stable/41300143.

Subsequent note entry

3. Glass and Levchak, “Red States, Blue States, and Divorce," 1002-46.

4. Stern, “Genius and Demographics in Modern Jewish History,” 352.

Bibliography

Format

Author Surname, First Name. “Title of Article.” Title of Publication Volume, no. Issue (Month or Season and/or Year): Article page range. DOI or URL if online.

Example

Glass, Jennifer, and Philip Levchak. “Red States, Blue States, and Divorce: Understanding the Impact of Conservative Protestantism on Regional Variation in Divorce Rates.” American Journal of Sociology 119, no. 4 (2014): 1002–46. https://doi.org/10.1086/674703.

Stern, Eliyahu. “Genius and Demographics in Modern Jewish History.” Jewish Quarterly Review 101, no. 3 (Summer 2011): 347–82. http://www.jstor-org.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/stable/41300143.

Tips

References to online journal articles include a URL or a persistent Digital Object Identifier (DOI). If allocated, the DOI is preferred. Note that a DOI should be included in the form of a URL starting with https://doi.org/.

Multiple authors

Footnote

Format

Two authors

Note Number. First Author Full Name and Second Author Full Name, “Title of Article,” Title of Publication Volume, no. Issue (Month or Season and/or Year): Page(s), DOI or URL if online.

Three authors

Note Number. First Author Full Name, Second Author Full Name, and Third Author Full Name, “Title of Article,” Title of Publication Volume, no. Issue (Month or Season and/or Year): Page(s), DOI or URL if online.

Four or more authors

Note Number. First Author Full Name et al., “Title of Article,” Title of Publication Volume, no. Issue (Month or Season and/or Year): Page(s), DOI or URL if online.

Example

1. Dolores Hayden and Gwendolyn Wright, “Architecture and Urban Planning,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1, no. 4 (Summer, 1976): 928, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3173242?sid=primo.

2. Louis Hoffman, Nathaniel Granger, and Lisa Vallejos, "An Existential-Humanistic Perspective on Black Lives Matter and Contemporary Protest Movements," Journal of Humanistic Psychology 56, no. 6 (2016): 595-597, https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167816652273.

3. Natalia V. Gmuca et al., “The Fat and the Furriest: Morphological Changes in Harp Seal Fur with Ontogeny,” Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 88, no. 2 (March/April 2015): 158, https://doi.org/10.1086/680080.

Subsequent note entry

3. Hayden and Wright, "Architecture and Urban Planning," 929.

4. Hoffman, Granger, and Vallejos, "Existential-Humanistic Perspective," 602.

5. Gmuca et al., “Harp Seal Fur,” 160.

Bibliography

Format

First Author Surname, First Name, Subsequent Author Full Names. "Title of Article.” Title of Publication Volume, no. Issue (Month or Season and/or Year): Article page range. DOI or URL if online.

Example

Two authors

Hayden, Dolores, and Gwendolyn Wright. “Architecture and Urban Planning.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1, no. 4 (Summer, 1976): 923–933. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3173242?sid=primo.

Three authors

Hoffman, Louis, Nathaniel Granger, and Lisa Vallejos. "An Existential-Humanistic Perspective on Black Lives Matter and Contemporary Protest Movements." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 56, no. 6 (2016): 595-611. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167816652273.

Four or more authors

Gmuca, Natalia V., Linnea E. Pearson, Jennifer M. Burns, and Heather E. M. Liwanag. “The Fat and the Furriest: Morphological Changes in Harp Seal Fur with Ontogeny.” Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 88, no. 2 (March/April 2015): 158–66. https://doi.org/10.1086/680080.

Tips

Multiple authors are listed in the same order as they appear on the title page, which may not necessarily be alphabetical order.
For a journal article with two or more authors, only the first-listed name is inverted in the bibliography.
For a journal article with more than ten authors, list only the first seven authors in the bibliography, followed by et al.

Forthcoming journal articles

Footnote

Format

Note number. Author Full Name, “Title of Article,” Title of Publication Volume (forthcoming).

Bibliography

Format

Author’s Surname, First Name. “Title of Article.” Title of Publication Volume (forthcoming).