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Chicago 17th (B) Author-Date

Journal articles

  • You can usually omit parts of a reference if the information is not available.
    • If there is only a volume and issue number (i.e. no month or season provided), enclose the issue number in parentheses and omit the month/season.
    • If there is a month or season provided, precede the issue number with 'no.' and place it before the parentheses.
  • Citations to journal articles may only give specific pages, however the reference list entry is made to the article as a whole and includes the first and last page span.
  • Non-English Names in an English Context - Naming conventions for non-English authors may differ, refer to the manual.
  • 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.

Journal articles

In-text citation

Format

(Author Surname Year, Pages)

Example

(Stern 2011, 355)

Reference list

Format

Author Surname, First Name. Year. “Title of Article.” Title of Publication Volume (Issue): Article Page Range. DOI or URL if online.

 

OR

 

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

Example

Glass, Jennifer, and Philip Levchak. 2014. “Red States, Blue States, and Divorce: Understanding the Impact of Conservative Protestantism on Regional Variation in Divorce Rates.” American Journal of Sociology 119 (4): 1002–46. https://doi.org/10.1086/674703.

 

OR

 

Stern, Eliyahu. 2011. “Genius and Demographics in Modern Jewish History.” Jewish Quarterly Review 101, no. 3 (Summer): 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

In-text citation

Format

Two authors

 

(First Author Surname and Second Author Surname Year, Pages)

Three authors

 

(First Author Surname, Second Author Surname, and Third Author Surname Year, Pages)

Four or more authors

 

(First Author Surname et al. Year, Pages)

Examples

Two authors

 

(Hayden and Wright 1976, 925)

Three authors

 

(Horovitz, Yauch, and Diamond 1994, 55)

Four or more authors

 

(Gmuca et al. 2015, 162)

Reference list

Format

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

Example

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

Gmuca, Natalia V., Linnea E. Pearson, Jennifer M. Burns, and Heather E. M. Liwanag. 2015. “The Fat and the Furriest: Morphological Changes in Harp Seal Fur with Ontogeny.” Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 88, no. 2 (March/April): 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 reference list.
  • For a journal article with more than ten authors, list only the first seven authors in the reference list, followed by et al.

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