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Journal – Chicago Bibliography

Journal – Print version

  • Page numbers for the entire article (i.e. from the first to the last page) are given

Format:

Last, First M. "Article Title." Journal Title Volume, no. Issue (Year published): pp-pp.

Examples:


1. Susan Peck MacDonald, "The Erasure of Language," College Composition and Communication 58, no. 4 (2007): 588.

2. MacDonald, "The Erasure of Language," 601.

MacDonald, Susan Peck. "The Erasure of Language." College Composition and Communication 58, no. 4 (2007): 585-625.


1. Joshua I. Weinstein, "The Market in Plato's Republic," Classical Philology 104 (2009): 439.

2. Weinstein, "Plato's Republic," 459.

Weinstein, Joshua I. "The Market in Plato's Republic." Classical Philology 104 (2009): 439-68.

Journal – Electronic version

  • If possible use DOI over URL
  • Access dates are not required by Chicago in citations of formally published electronic sources
  • You may want to include the full URL to the article if it appears to be stable and not too long. End the URL with a period.
  • If you provide a shorter version of the URL (as in the example above), note that the URL ends with a 'slash' before a period.

Format

Last, First M. "Article Title." Journal Title Volume, no. Issue (Year published): pp-pp. Accessed Month day, year [not usually necessary]. doi:xx.xxxxxxxxxx [OR] URL of publication's home page.

Examples:


1. Gueorgi Kossinets and Duncan J. Watts, "Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network," American Journal of Sociology 115 (2009):414, accessed December 5, 2014, doi:10.1086/599247.

2. Kossinets and Watts, "Origins of Homophily," 450.

Kossinets, Gueorgi, and Duncan J. Watts. "Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network." American Journal of Sociology 115 (2009): 409-50. Accessed December 5, 2014. doi:10.1086/599247.


Bent, Henry E. "Professionalization of the Ph.D. Degree." College Composition and Communication 58, no. 4 (2007): 0-145. Accessed December 5, 2008. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1978286.


Peltonen, Kirsi, Helmer B. Larsen, and Karin Helweg-Larsen. "Parental Violence and Adolescent Mental Health." European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 19, no. 11 (2010): doi:10.12345.6565.


Watson, J D. "A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid." Nature http://www.nsu.fl.edu/DNA/draft_pubs/12345678.pdf.



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