Anthropology uses the Chicago Manual of Style's Author-Date citation formatting style as a guide for citing sources in academic papers and publication. Below are some examples of how to cite common resources in Chicago Style Author-Date format. Author-Date format uses in-text parenthetical citations paired with a references list at the end of the paper. When looking on-line for assistance with citing works or using citation tools, make sure you are using Author-Date materials and not materials for the Chicago Notes and Bibliography style. For more detailed information, please visit the links on the left sidebar.
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Some of the information on this page comes from the library's Citing Sources & Avoiding Plagiarism guide, edited by Mandi Goodsett.
In the Author-Date or "Reference List" format of Chicago or Turabian Citation Style, sentences with material from another source (quoted or paraphrased) are cited immediately afterward with a parenthetical citation (format is listed as P below), as well as a citation in the "works cited" or bibliography at the end of the paper (format is listed as R below).
P = Parenthetical in-text
R = Reference entry (Work Cited / Bibliography)
Journal Article in Print
R: Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Date of Publication. Title of article: Subtitle of article. Title of Journal Volume Number (Additional Date Information): YY-YY.
P: (Author's Last Name Date of Publication, XX-XX)
Example - Journal Article in Print
R: Nayar, Pramod K. 2005. Marvelous excesses: English travel writing and India, 1680-1727. Journal of British Studies 44, no. 2 (April): 213-38.
P: (Nayar 2005, 213)
Journal Article Online
R: Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Date of Publication."Title of article: Subtitle of article."Title of Journal Volume Number (Additional Date Information). Accessed Date of Access. URL or doi.
P: (Author's Last Name Date of Publication, XX-XX)
Example - Journal Article Online
R: Brown, Campbell. 2011. “Consequentialize This.” Ethics 121, no. 4 (July): 749–71. Accessed December 1, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/660696.
P: (Brown 2011, 752)
Website
R: Google. 2009. “Google Privacy Policy.” Last modified March 11. http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html.
P: (Google 2009)
Basic Format
R: Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Date of Publication. Title of book: Subtitle of book. Place of Publication: Publisher's Name.
P: (Author's Last Name Date of Publication, XX-XX)
Example - One Author
R: Allison, Anne. 2000. Permitted and prohibited desires: Mothers, comics, and censorship in Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press.
P: (Allison 2000, 149-150)