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Music Citation Guide: Chicago Style (18th ed.)

Citation quick guide for music and music-related items using 18th edition Chicago Style formatting.

Journals Consulted Online (or Online Only Journals)

Bibliography Entry:

LastName, FirstName. "Article Title." Journal Volume #, Issue # (Year): PageNumbers. DOI.

Bartlett, Georgina. "Disney's 'Jungle Sound': Jazz and Wildness in Disney Animation." Popular Music and Society 47, no. 3 (2024): 313–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2024.2366052. 

Footnote/Endnote:

#. FirstName LastName, "Article Title," Journal Volume #, Issue # (Year): PageNumbers, DOI.

1. Georgina Bartlett, "Disney's 'Jungle Sound': Jazz and Wildness in Disney Animation," Popular Music and Society 47, no. 3 (2024): 313–33, https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2024.2366052. 

In-text citation:

(LastName Year, PageNumber)

(Bartlett 2024, 320)


Did you notice that, even though the article begins on page 313 and ends on page 333, I wrote 313-33? CMOS stipulates that when putting a range of three digit numbers when both numbers start with the same digit, you can leave off the first digit for the second number (CMOS 9.63).

Print Journals

Bibliography Entry:

LastName, FirstName. "Article Title." Journal Volume #, Issue # (Year): PageNumbers.

Haworth, Catherine. “‘Something beneath the flesh’: Music, Gender, and Medical Discourse in the 1940s Female Gothic Film.” Journal of the Society for American Music 8, no. 3 (2014): 338–70.

Footnote/Endnote:

#. FirstName LastName, "Article Title," Journal Volume #, Issue # (Year): PageNumbers.

1. Catherine Haworth, "'Something beneath the flesh': Music, Gender, and Medical Discourse in the 1940s Female Gothic Film." Journal of the Society for American Music 8, no. 3 (2014): 338–30.

In-text citation:

(LastName Year, PageNumber)

(Haworth 2014, 350)