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Turabian / Chicago Style - Music

Book with 1 author

Format:

Author Last, First. Year of Pub. Title. Location of Publisher: Publisher.

Example:

Welch, Kathleen E. 1999. Electric rhetoric: Classical rhetoric, oralism and a new literacy.  Cambridge: MIT Press.

Book with 2 authors

Format:

Author Last, First, and Author First Last. Year of Pub. Title. Location of Publisher: Publisher.

Example:

Lunsford, Andrea, and Lisa Ede. 1990. Singular texts/plural authors: Perspectives on collaborative writing. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Book with 3 authors

Example:

Patten, Michael A., Guy McCaskie, and Philip Unitt. 2003. Birds of the Salton Sea: Status, biogeography, and ecology. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Electronic book (e-book)

Format:

Author Last, First. Year of Pub. Title. Location of Publisher: Publisher. Format of e-book.

Example:

Welch, Kathleen E. 1999. Electric rhetoric: Classical rhetoric, oralism and a new literacy. Cambridge: MIT Press. Ebook Central e-book.

Chapter in a book or work in an anthology

Format:

Author Last, First. Year. Title of Chapter/Article. In Title, ed. First Last, Inclusive page numbers. Location of Publisher: Publisher.

Example:

Wells, Ida B. 1995. Lynch law in all its phases. In With pen and voice: A critical anthology of nineteenth-century African-American women, ed. Shirley Wilson Logan, 80-99. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Newspaper article (print)

Format:

Author Last, First. Year of Publication. Title of Article. Newspaper Name. Month Day, Year.

Example:

Lewin, Tamar. 2005. SAT essay scores are in, but will they be used? New York Times. May 15, 2005.

Newspaper article (online)

Format:

Author Last, First. Year of Publication. Title of Article. Newspaper Name. Month Day, Year. URL (accessed Month Day, Year).

Example:

Mapes, Lynda V. 2005. Unearthing Tse-whit-zen. Seattle Times. May 25, 2005. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/local/klallam/index.html (accessed August 1, 2017).

Magazine article (print)

Format:

Author Last, First. Year of Pub. Title. Magazine Name, Month, Day, Year.

Example:

Swartz, Mimi. 2002. An Enron yard sale. New Yorker, May 6, 2002.

Magazine article (online)

Format:

Author Last, First. Year of Pub. Title. Magazine Name, Month Day, Year. URL (accessed Month Day, Year).

Example:

Swartz, Mimi. 2002. An Enron yard sale. New Yorker, May 6, 2002. http://web.lexis- nexis.com/universe/document?_m=b68471eb6243cfc 730dc18cc03d6c746&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVtb-zSkVA&_md5= 0c8c5465eafe026db72b1a417350c8e9 (accessed June 23, 2017).

Journal article (print)

Format:

Author Last, First. Year of Publication. Title. Journal Name volume #, no. issue # (Month/Season): inclusive page numbers.

Note: The month of publication is not required if the issue number is present.

Example:

Haraway, Donna J. 1994. A game of cat's cradle: Science studies, feminist theory, cultural studies. Configurations 2, no. 1: 59-71.

Journal article (online)

Format:

Author Last, First. Year of Pub. Title. Journal Name volume #, no. issue # (Month of Publication): inclusive page numbers if available. URL (access Month Day, Year).

Example:

Ferrell, Robert H. 1990. Truman's Place in History. Reviews in American History 18, no. 1: 1-9. http://www.jstor.org (accessed February 3, 2017).

Website (entire site)

Format:

Last Name, First of Author. Date of Pub. Title. URL (accessed Month Day, Year).

Example:

Weissmann, Anne. 2006. Ernest Haeckel: Art forms in nature. http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/haeckel/index.html (accessed January 14, 2017).

Website (individual webpage)

Format:

Corporate Author Name or Last Name, First of Author. Date of Pub. Title of page. Title of site. URL (accessed Month Day, Year).

Example:

Sun, Yee-Fan. Shacking up. DigsMagazine.com. http://www.digsmagazine.com/lounge/lounge_shackingup.htm (accessed March 2, 2017).

ChatGPT or Artificial Intelligence Model

AI-generated content should not be included in the list of References. Just cite in your text.

Email

Note: Email messages are not included in the list of References. Just cite in your text.

Format:

(Author First Name Last, Month Day, Year, e-mail message to author)

Example:

(Christopher Nolan, September 5, 2017, e-mail message to author)

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