Peer-reviewed journal articles are scholarly periodical publications that develop in-depth research on a topic and include citations to other sources. Unlike in Chicago’s notes and bibliography system, the year of publication appears directly after the author’s name in the reference list. Accordingly, the volume and issue numbers of journals are presented differently too. Note that if a month or season is not provided by the journal, then the issue number should be put into parentheses rather than being preceded by 'no.'. While citations to journal articles may only give specific pages, the reference list entry is made to the article as a whole and includes the first and last page numbers.
References to journal articles consulted online include a URL or a persistent Digital Object Identifier (DOI). If allocated, the DOI is the preferred electronic resource identifier. Note that a DOI may have the form of a URL. If so, it is included in full.
The Chicago Manual of Style does not require that access dates be included in references to formally published online sources. However, students may be required to include them for assessment tasks.
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Rule for Citation |
(Author’s Surname Year of Publication, Page or Pages) |
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Example of Citation entry |
(Stern 2011, 355) (Xiaoyu 2013, 72) |
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Rule for Reference list |
Author’s Surname, Author’s Given Name. Year of Publication. “Title of Article.” Title of Publication Volume Number no. Issue Number (Issue Number, Month, or Season):Article Page Range. DOI. or Author’s Surname, Author’s Given Name. Year of Publication. “Title of Article.” Title of Publication Volume Number no. Issue Number (Issue Number, Month, or Season):Article Page Range. URL. |
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Example of Reference list entry |
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. Xiaoyu Weng. 2013. “The Archive in Exhibition Making: Material, Concept and Strategy.” Journal of Curatorial Studies 2, no. 1 (Winter): 70–89. doi:10.1386/jcs.2.1.70_1. Note that some East Asian cultures—including Chinese, Japanese and Korean—order the surname first. Follow cultural practice by not inverting the name in the reference list. or Stern, Eliyahu. 2011. “Genius and Demographics in Modern Jewish History.” Jewish Quarterly Review 101 (Summer): 347–82. http://www.jstor-org.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/stable/41300143. |
List up to three authors in both the citation and the reference list. For four or more authors, list only the first followed by et al. in the citation and all in the bibliography. Above ten authors, only the first seven followed by et al. in the bibliography.
Note that multiple authors are listed in the same order as they appear on the title page, which may not necessarily be alphabetical order. Note also that for a journal article with two or more authors, only the first-listed name is inverted in the bibliography.
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Rule for Citation |
(Authors' Surnames Year of Publication, Page or Pages) (First Author's Surnames et al. Year of Publication, Page or Pages) |
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Example of Citation entry |
(Hayden and Wright 1976, 925) (Gmuca et al. 2015, 162) |
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Rule for Reference list |
First Author's Surname, First Author’s Given Name and Second Author's Full Name. Year of Publication. “Title of Article.” Title of Publication Volume Number, no. Issue Number (Issue Number, Month, or Season): Article page range. DOI. First Author’s Surname, First Author’s Given Name, Subsequent Authors’ Full Names. Year of Publication. "Title of Article.” Title of Publication Volume Number, no. Issue Number (Issue Number, Month, or Season): Article page range. DOI.
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Example of Reference list entry |
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://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/10.1086/493309. 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.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/10.1086/680080
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Cite journal articles accessed in print in the same way as journal articles accessed online, but without a DOI or URL.
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Rule for Citation |
(Author’s Surname Year of Publication, Page or Pages) |
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Example of Citation entry |
(Krauss 1999, 91) |
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Rule for Reference list |
Author’s Surname, Author’s Given Name. Year of Publication. “Title of Article.” Title of Publication Volume Number, no. Issue Number (Issue Number, Month, or Season): Article page range. |
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Example of Reference list entry |
Krauss, Rosalind. 1999. "Perpetual Inventory." October, no. 88 (Spring): 86–116. |