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CMS citation
style refers to the rules and conventions of the Chicago
Manual Style applied to resources used in a research
paper. The use of CMS citation style includes in-text
citations that point to an alphabetical bibliography.
In-text
citation implies the use of essential information to
identify a source and it includes the last name of the
author, the year of publication and page number (without
p.) parenthesized. The examples of in-text citations
are as follows:
| Author's
name in text |
Dover has expressed
this concern (2001, 122). |
| Author's name
in reference |
This concern has been expressed
(Dover 2001,122). |
| Multiple authors
of a work |
This hypothesis (Bradley
and Rogers 2004, 144) suggested this theory
(Sumner, Reichl, and Waugh 2003, 172). |
| Specific parts
of a source |
Williams alludes to this
premise (1998, 145). |
| Two works cited |
(Burns 2002, Thomas 2003) |
| Corporate authors |
(United Nations, Economic
Commission for Africa 1997, 225) |
Works
with no author
When a work has no author, use the work's title
or a shortened version of the title when citing
it in text:
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as stated by the presidential
commission (Report 1994, 110). |
| Online source with numbered
paragraphs |
(Fox, pars. 4-5) |
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Journal or encyclopaedia article are
fully referenced in the text: An editorial in New York
Times, July 30 1990 took the position that …
The bibliography page contains the list
of all sources arranged in alphabetical order and containing
all publishing information, including the author(s)/editor(s)
name, date of publication, the complete title italicized
with only first word of the title capitalized, edition,
if indicated, place of publication, the shortened name
of publisher. Journal, newspaper or encyclopedia articles
are not included into the bibliography.
Examples:
One
author:
Nabokov, V. 1955. Lolita. New York: Putnam.
Another
work, same author:
---. 1999. Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited.
New York: Knopf.
Two
authors:
Cross, S., & C. Hoffman. 2004. Bruce Nauman:
Theaters of Experience. New York: Guggenheim Museum;
London: Thames & Hudson.
Three
authors:
Lowi, T., B. Ginsberg, & S. Jackson. 1994. Analyzing
American Government: American Government, Freedom and
Power. 3rd ed. New York: Norton.
More
than three authors:
Gilman, S., et al. 1993. Hysteria beyond Freud.
Berkeley: U of California P.
Corporate
author:
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. 1973. A Guide
to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University.
Multivolume
work:
Morison, S. E., H. S. Commager, and W.E. Leuchtenburg.
1980. The Growth of the American Republic.
2 vols. New York: Oxford UP.
Online
book within a scholarly project:
Frost, R. 1999. North of Boston. Project Bartleby.
Ed. Steven van Leeuwen. Available from (http://www.bartleby.com/118/index.html).
Article
from an online encyclopedia:
"Einstein, Albert." 1999. Encyclopaedia
Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica. Available
from (http://search.eb.com/bol/topic?eu=108494&sctn=1).
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