Music Citation Guide (Chicago Style)

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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 dissertations and theses:

  • Digital dissertations and theses
  • Print dissertations and theses

Digital dissertation or thesis

Footnote template:

8. Author First Name Last Name, “Dissertation or Thesis Title” (DMA diss./PhD diss./master’s thesis, Institution Name, Year), Page Number, URL or Database Name (Document ID number).
 

Example of a real footnote:

8. Christine Jobson, “Florence Price: An Analysis of Select Art Songs With Text by Female Poets” (DMA diss., University of Miami, 2019), 56, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (13859533).

 

Bibliography entry template:

Author Last Name, First Name. “Dissertation or Thesis Title.” DMA diss./PhD diss./Master’s thesis, Institution Name, Year. Database Name (Document ID number).

 

Example of a real bibliography entry:

Jobson, Christine. “Florence Price: An Analysis of Select Art Songs With Text by Female Poets.” DMA diss., University of Miami, 2019. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (13859533).

Print dissertation or thesis

Footnote template:

19. Author First Name Last Name, “Dissertation or Thesis Title’” (DMA diss./PhD diss./master’s thesis, Institution Name, Year), Page Number.
 

Example of a real footnote:

19. Gregory Alden Magie, “Conducting William Schuman's ‘New England Triptych’’” (DMA diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 1996), 12.

 

Bibliography entry template:

Author Last Name, First Name. “Dissertation or Thesis Title.’” DMA/PhD diss./Master’s thesis, Institution Name, Year.

 

Example of a real bibliography entry:

Magie, Gregory Alden. “Conducting William Schuman's ‘New England Triptych.’” DMA diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 1996.
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