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Chicago Citation Style 17th ed.: Citing Other Sources

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Magazine Article

Basic Citation

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Year of Publication. "Title of Article." Title of MagazineMonth Day, Year of Publication. Stable URL or name of database.

Reference List

Sedaris, David. 2012. "Standing By." The New Yorker, August 2, 2012, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/09/standing-by.

In-Text Citation

(Sedaris 2012, 33.)

Thesis or Dissertation

Basic Citation

Author's last name, author's first name. Year of publication. "Title of the publication." Format, Publishing institution.

Reference List
Stabile, Nicholas. 2021. "New Housing Development and the Impacts on Rental Prices and Housing Cost Burden in the DC Housing Market." Master's Thesis, Georgetown University.

In-Text Citation

(Stabile 2021, 12)

Lecture

Basic Citation

Author's last name, author's first name. Year. "Lecture Title." Course number and name. Location of Lecture, Month Day, Year. 

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Beam, Chris. 2019. "Queer Care: LGBTQ Youth in Child Welfare." UCLA Luskin Lecture Series. Lecture at University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, March 5, 2019. 

In-Text Citation

(Beam 2019)

Secondary Sources

Basic Citation

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Year of Publication. "Title of Article." Title of Journal volume number, no. issue number (Month or Season): page numbers. DOI or stable URL.

Reference List

S. Mo Jones-Jang, Tara Mortensen, and Jingjing Liu. “Does Media Literacy Help Identification of Fake News? Information Literacy Helps, but Other Literacies Don’t.” The American Behavioral Scientist 65, no. 2 (2021): 371–388.

In-Text Citation

(quoted in  S. Mo Jones-Jang, Tara Mortensen, and Jingjing Liu 2021, 378)

Note: The Chicago Manual discourages secondary citation, and encourages writers to view original sources whenever possible.

Other Sources

For additional information and examples for citing other sources not included in this guide:

Author-Date: Sample Citations | Chicago Manual of Style

Purdue OWL: Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition