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PHIL10025G: Environmental Philosophy

How do I Cite?

Following a recognized citation style by a credible organization (ex. APA, MLA) improves consistency between assignments, helps your professor understand what you have cited, and empowers others to find information for themselves.

The following Reference and In-Text Citation examples come from the Chicago Style Guide.

Reference Examples

Follow the same order of information, punctuation, italics, and capitalization as in the examples below.

Template:
Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Journal volume #, issue no. # (Year): pages, doi or URL.

From a library database, single author

Sullivan, Patrick. "Introduction: Culture Without Cultures, the Culture Effect." The Australian Journal of Anthropology 17, no. 3 (2006): 253-264, doi: 10.1111/j.1835-9310.2006.tb00062.x

From a library database, multiple authors

Kearney, Maura, Fiona Williams, and Fergal Doherty. "Towards a Nurturing City: Promoting Positive Relations Across Agencies." Educational & Child Psychology 33, no. 2 (2016): 43-56, doi:115983542.

Follow the same order of information, punctuation, italics, and capitalization as in the examples below.

Template
Author's Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Location: Publisher, Year.

Book

Adams, Laurie. A History of Western Art. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011.

Books with more than 3 authors

Lopez, Geraldo, Judith P. Salt, Anne Ming, and Henry Reisen. China and the West. Boston: Little Brown, 2004.

EBook

Include doi or URL

Horn, Michiel. Academic Freedom in Canada: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. doi: 469060. 

Follow the same order of information, punctuation, italics, and capitalization as in the examples below.

Template
Author's Last Name, First Name. Title of Encyclopedia. 1st ed. Location: Publisher, Year.

Encyclopedia

Garner, Bryan A. Garner’s Modern English Usage. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Text Citations

When summarizing, paraphrasing, or quoting your sources, provide parenthetical text citations to indicate the page number of the information you have summarized or quoted. For example:

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (2009) argue that the Internet is an exemplar of the rhizome: a nonhierarchical, noncentered network—a democratic network with “an indeterminate and potentially unlimited number of interconnected nodes [that] communicate with no central point of control” (299).

This example comes from OWL Purdue, "CMOS Author Date Sample Paper"

Notice that unlike APA Style, text citations in Chicago Style do not include p. before the page number. In addition, the full name of the author(s) is given.

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