What kind of examples are included on this page?
As you scroll, you'll find footnote and bibliography entry templates and examples of citations for real sources for the following types of articles:
- Journal articles originally published in print (and print journal articles that are ALSO available digitally): This will be most journal articles!
- Advance online publications: Journal articles that are published online first and then appear in print later
- Born-digital journal articles (articles that were never available in print and are only available online)
- Newspaper articles (print and digital)
- Magazine articles (print and digital)
Anatomy of a citation: Journal articles
Some tips:
Using JSTOR?
Using RILM?
A few worlds about the URL to include in your citation:
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If you can find a "stable" URL for the journal article, include that in your citation; some database interfaces list these.
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Don’t use the long URL in your browser’s address bar! This may include something like "ezproxy" and will be VERY long. A URL like this has information about the University login embedded into it so that only authorized users can access the content. If you include the long version of the URL in your citation, your reader may not be able to access it.
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If you can’t find a stable URL, but you have the volume, issue, page numbers, and date for article, leave out the URL.
Journal articles originally published in print (and print journal articles that are ALSO available digitally): This will be most journal articles!
Journal articles originally published in print (and print journal articles that are ALSO available digitally) footnotes:
Journal articles originally published in print (and print journal articles that are ALSO available digitally) bibliography entries:
Advance online publications
Sometimes, journal articles are published online first and appear in print slightly later. The original online version is referred to as advance online publication. The original version published online and the version published within the context of the journal (either in print or digitally) could be exactly the same, or they could have differences - so it's important to let your reader know which version you're citing so they can find the exact information/quote to which you're referring.
Advance online publications come up in the sciences more often than the humanities, and the APA Style Blog provides some guidance on how to handle it. When you need to cite something that has received advance online publication in Chicago Style, there are several sections of the Chicago Manual of Style Online that address pre-prints and other advance publications. See the following sections (you can access the Chicago Manual of Style Online through the University Libraries and search for these section numbers in the search box):
- 14.218 Working papers and the like
- 1.113 Preprints and "in press" articles published ahead of print
- 14.173 Journal article preprints
- 1.112 Journal article version of record
Born-digital journal articles (articles that were never available in print and are only available online)
Born-digital article footnotes:
Born digital article bibliography entries:
Newspaper articles originally published in print (and print newspaper articles that are ALSO available digitally)
Newspaper article footnotes:
Newspaper article bibliography entries:
Magazine articles
Magazine article footnotes:
Magazine article bibliography entries: