Chicago Style (17th Edition) Citation Guide: How To Cite: Other Author-Date

Reference List:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Year of Work. "Title of Podcast." Date of Podcast. In Podcast Series, Producer. Podcast. Format, Time. URL.

In-Text Citation:

(Danforth and Chillag 2015)

Note: If the source has no date, use the date of last access.

Note: Should a Reference List entry be necessary, it should be listed under the name of the author.

Note: Blogs are often cited only within the text of the paper. A corresponding Reference List entry is not needed as long as the item has been documented in the text.

Reference List:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Year of Publication. "Title of Entry." Title of Blog (blog), Month Day, and Year of Entry. URL.

If Citing an Entire Blog: AHA Today (blog). http://blog.historians.org/education/919/inuit-contact-an-arctic-culture-teaching-resource.

In-Text:

In his blog posting dated September 16, 2010, in Ward Six, J. Robert Lennon discusses...

In-Text Citation:

If No Reference List Entry Is Used: (Lennon 2010, "How Do You Revise?," Ward Six (Blog), September 16, 2010)

If A Reference List Entry Is Used: (Lennon 2010)

Reference List:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name (Handle/Username if available). Year of Publication. "Title of Posting." Social Media Type, Month Day, Year, Time of Posting. URL.

In-Text:

Conan O'Brien's tweet was characteristically deadpan: "In honor of Earth Day, I'm recycling my tweets" (@ConanOBrien, April 22, 2015).

In-Text Citation:

If No Reference List Entry Is Used: (Conan O'Brien (@ConanOBrien) 2015, "In honor of Earth Day, I'm recycling my tweets," Twitter, April 22, 2015, 11:10 a.m.)

If A Reference List Entry Is Used: (O'Brien 2015)

Reference List:

Author of Review's Last Name, Author of Review's First Name. Year of Publication. "Title of Article [if any]." Review of Title of Book being reviewed, by Author's First and Last Name. Title of Journal volume number, no. issue number: page numbers. DOI or stable URL (if online).

In-Text Citation:

(Sorby 2008, 450)  

Published

Reference List:

Last-name, First-name. Year. "Title of Thesis: Subtitle."

In-Text Citation: (Last-name, Year Published)

Unpublished

Reference List:

Last-name, First-name. Year. "Title of Thesis: Subtitle." Unpublished thesis type. University.

Example: Hosking, Barry C.  2010. "The Control of Gastro-intestinal Nematodes in Sheep" PhD diss., Ghent University.

In-Text Citation: (Last-Name, Year Written)

Note: The in-text citations share the same format: (Creator's Last Name, Date Created)

Note: Titles of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs are italicized. Titles of antiquities are set in roman.

Online Images

Reference List: Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Year of Work. Title of Work. Medium, Date of Work. Title of Source, Location, Date of Publication. URL. 

Work of Art

Reference List: Artist's Last Name, Artist's First Name. Date. Title of Work. Medium. Museum Name, Museum Location.

Reference List:

Name of Composer, Conductor, or Performer (depends on who you emphasize in your paper). Recording Date. Title of Recording. Name of Composer, Conductor, and/or Performer (if they are not listed at the beginning of the Reference List entry). Name of Recording Company Music Number, Copyright Date, medium.

In-Text Citation:

(Dylan 1968)