Examples of Author–Date in the following topics:
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- Now that you know the different components of a book citation in Chicago/Turabian Author–Date style and how they should be formatted, you will be able to understand the citation formats for other source types.
- These are how your citations will be formatted on your References page at the end of your Author–Date style paper.
- List the ways to cite different source types in Chicago/Turabian Author–Date style
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- In your paper, when you quote directly from a source in the author's words, or when you paraphrase someone else’s idea, you need to tell the reader where the words and ideas comes from so the original author gets credit.
- When you do this within the text the reader the author’s name and the date the source was published in the text of your paper, this is called an in-text citation.
- The Chicago/Turabian citation style uses in-text citations only in its Author–Date method, which is generally used for social science papers and is explained below.
- If your professor asks you to cite sources with footnotes and bibliography rather than in-text citations, make sure you use the Notes and Bibliography (NB) method rather than the Author–Date method described here.
- If within this citation you also have multiple sources by the same author, after that author’s name, separate the multiple dates of publication with a comma, and order them chronologically (earliest to latest).
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- In Chicago Author–Date style, the sources you cite in your paper are listed at the end in the References section.
- In Chicago/Turabian papers using the Author–Date citation system, all the sources you cite throughout the text of your paper are listed together in full in the References section, which comes after the main text of your paper.
- You should present the author information in the following order and format: the author's last name, a comma, the author's first name, the author's middle initial (if given), and then a period:
- The date of publication and title are formatted the same.
- This is a correctly formatted References page in Chicago/Turabian Author–Date style.
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- Different types of source require different citation information, but they always follow the form of: author, title, publication information, and then either page number or website URL (all separated by commas).
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- (If you are using the Author Date citation system, this will be called the References section.)
- You should present the author information in the following order and format: the author's last name (capitalized), a comma, the author's first name (capitalized), the author's middle initial (if given), and then a period:
- Again, we start with the author information.
- Here we have only two authors, but if we had five, the "and" would come before the fifth author's last name, after the comma following the fourth author's name.
- The date of publication and title are formatted the same.
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- When you tell the reader the author’s name and the date the source was published in the text of your paper, this is called an in-text citation.
- For an article with more than five authors, include only the first author's name followed by “et al.” and the year of publication in each in-text citation.
- If you need to cite multiple publications by different authors in the same sentence, you should list the multiple sources in alphabetical order by author and use a semicolon to separate them.
- If within this citation you also have multiple sources by the same author, after that author’s name separate the multiple dates of publication with a semicolon and order them chronologically (earliest to latest).
- If multiple publications by the same author (or group of authors) were published in the same year, there is a special rule for denoting this.
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- When you tell the reader the author’s name and the date the source was published in the text of your paper, this is called an in-text citation.
- Authors should be presented in the order in which they are listed on the published article.
- For an article with no known author, use the source title in place of the author's name, formatted as it would be (i.e., italicized or enclosed in quotation marks) in your Works Cited section:
- If you need to cite multiple publications by different authors in the same sentence, you should list the multiple sources in alphabetical order by author and use a semicolon to separate them.
- If an author has multiple publications that you want to cite in the same sentence, include the author's name in a signal phrase and the titles of the referenced sources instead in the parentheticals:
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- You always want to start with the author information.
- You should present the author information in the following order and format: the author's last name (capitalized), a comma, the author's first initial, then a period, and finally their middle initial and period (if given):
- Again, we start with the author information.
- Here we have only two authors, but if we had five, the ampersand would come before the fifth author's last name, after the comma following the fourth author's name.
- The date of publication and title are formatted the same.
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- You should present the author information in the following order and format: the author's last name (capitalized), a comma, the author's first name, a middle initial if given, and then a period:
- Much of the citation is the same, but the "access date" (i.e., the date you retrieved the information) is also included:
- Again, we start with the author information.
- Here we have only two authors, but if we had five, the "and" would come before the fifth author's last name, after the comma following the fourth author's name.
- The date of publication and title are formatted the same.