Sunday, February 23, 2020
Blog #16 – learnings from #TheChicagoManualOfStyle.
Notes and bibliographies are one medium to cite sources. Another system prevalent in the physical, natural, and social sciences is called the author-date references. Enter chapter 15.
Format
The citations in the text are enclosed in parenthesis and contain author’s last name, the publication date, and if needed, a page number. Such citations are accompanied by a list of references titled “References” or “Works Cited” at the end of the section. The author name and title should match to link to the entry in reference list.
A reference list is structured much like a bibliography (name is inverted, elements separated by periods). Noun forms such as editor, volume are abbreviated but verb forms like edited by are spelled out.
Citations of journals include volume (following the italicized title with no intervening punctuation) and issue number and date of publication.
Reference lists like bibliography are placed at the end of the work, preceding an index if present and are in alphabetical order by author’s last name. Just like a bibliography, a single-author entry precedes a multi-author one, and 3-em dashes are used for repeated elements.
Multiple entries by the same author in the same year are separated by addition of a, b, c, and so forth, and are listed alphabetically by title.
For each author-date reference, a corresponding entry must be present in the reference list.
The author-date reference in text are placed at the end of the block but just before the punctuation.
When several references are made to the same source, cite after the last one.
Two or more citations to a single parenthetical reference are separated by a semicolon.
Also, source citations within notes are treated the same way as text. If author is unknown, begin with a title but remove the initial article. If guessing the author, enclose in square brackets followed by a question mark.
The rules for periodicals, manuscript collections, websites, blogs, and social media as well as legal documents are much the same as covered in chapter 14 but covered in brevity here.
My Takeway
My sight is set on the end. Only the last chapter remains of my journey. And guess its titles? Indexes.
University of Chicago Press. The Chicago Manual of Style. 17th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
