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Citation Quick Reference Guide

This libguide provides citation resources for frequently used resource-types in APA, MLA, and the Chicago Manual of Style.

Author-Date System Quick Reference

Resource Type 

Bibliographic Reference 

In-Text Citation 

Book 

Binder, Amy J., and Jeffrey L. Kidder. 2022. The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today. University of Chicago Press. 

(Binder and Kidder 2022, 117–18) 

Chapter in an edited book 

Doyle, Kathleen. 2023. “The Queen Mary Psalter.” In The Book by Design: The Remarkable Story of the World’s Greatest Invention, edited by P. J. M. Marks and Stephen Parkin. University of Chicago Press. 

(Doyle 2023, 64) 

Journal article with 1-2 authors 

Kwon, Hyeyoung. 2022. “Inclusion Work: Children of Immigrants Claiming Membership in Everyday Life.” American Journal of Sociology 127 (6): 1818–59. https://doi.org/10.1086/720277. 

(Kwon 2022, 1842–43) 

Journal article with 3+ authors 

Dror, Amiel A., Nicole Morozov, Amani Daoud, et al. 2022. “Pre-Infection 25-Hydroxyvitamin D3 Levels and Association with Severity of COVID-19 Illness.” PLOS ONE 17 (2): e0263069. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263069. 

(Dror et al. 2022, 10–11) 

News or magazine article 

Blum, Dani. 2023. “Are Flax Seeds All That?” New York Times, December 13. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/well/eat/flax-seeds-benefits.html. 

(Blum 2023) 

Website with date 

Google. 2023. “Privacy Policy.” Privacy & Terms. Effective November 15. https://policies.google.com/privacy. 

(Google 2023) 

Video or podcast 

Oliver, Eric. 2022. “Why So Many Americans Believe in So Many ‘Crazy’ Things.” Moderated by Andrew McCall. Virtual lecture, February 23. Posted March 21, 2022, by University of Chicago. YouTube, 1:01:45. https://youtu.be/hfq7AnCF5bg. 

(Oliver 2022) 

Lecture notes** 

Hanstedt, Paul. 2009. “This is Your Brain on Writing: The Implications of James Zull’s The Art of Changing the Brain for the Writing Classroom.” Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA.**  

(Hanstedt 2009) 

Ebook 

Borel, Brooke. 2023. The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking. 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press. EBSCOhost. 

(Borel 2023, 92) 

**If the lecture is informal and does not have a title, you may leave it out.

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