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Chicago (17th ed.) Style Guide: Journal Article (1 author)

An introductory guide to creating notes and bibliography entries in accordance with the 17th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (2017).

 

 

NOTES ENTRY — Journal Article with 1 Author

 

    USED FOR:

  • Citing a journal article written by 1 person.


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

  • AUTHOR'S NAME [comma]
  • [quotation mark] TITLE OF ARTICLE [comma] [quotation mark]
  • TITLE OF JOURNAL in italics
  • VOLUME NUMBER [comma]
  • no. ISSUE NUMBER
  • [parenthesis] DATE OF PUBLICATION [parenthesis] [colon]
  • PAGE NUMBER(S) [comma]
  • STABLE URL [period]


    FORMATTING:

  1. Author's Name, "Title of Article," Title of Journal in Italics Volume, no. Issue (Date): Page Number(s), URL.

 

    EXAMPLES:

  1. Neal L. Goldstein, "Love's Labour's Lost and the Renaissance Vision of Love," Shakespeare Quarterly 25, no. 3 (Summer 1974): 338, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2868784.
  2. Raymond Apple, "Psalm 116: Conditional or Unconditional Love of God?," Jewish Bible Quarterly 48, no. 2 (April 2020): 100-101, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=jss&AN=144764857&login.asp&site=ehost-live.
  3. Dominic Orih, "Can There Be a Recourse to a Philosophy of Love? A Confronting Question at the Heart of a Poor Pedagogy," Interchange 53, no. 3-4 (December 2022): 604-5, https://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/article/386618981.
  4. Ruth L. Smith, "Relationality and the Ordering of Differences in Feminist Ethics," Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 9, no. 1-2 (Spring/Fall 1993): 199, https://www.jstor.org/stable/25002209.
  5. Tennessee Williams, "Why Did Desdemona Love the Moor?," Tennessee Williams Annual Review, no. 19 (January 2020): 49, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edo&AN=148795325&site=eds-live&scope=site. [journal uses only issue numbers]

 

 

SHORTENED NOTES ENTRY (REPEATED SOURCES) — Journal Article with 1 Author


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

  • AUTHOR'S LAST NAME [comma]
  • [quotation mark] SHORTENED TITLE OF ARTICLE [comma] [quotation mark]
  • PAGE NUMBER(S) [period]


    FORMATTING:

  1. Author's Last Name, "Shortened Title of Article," Page Number(s).

 

    EXAMPLES:

  1. Goldstein, "Vision of Love," 336.
  2. Apple, "Psalm 116," 101-2.
  3. Orih, "Philosophy of Love," 614-15.
  4. Smith, "Feminist Ethics," 200-201.
  5. Williams, "Why Did Desdemona," 47.

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY — Journal Article with 1 Author


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

  • AUTHOR'S LAST NAME [comma] AUTHOR'S FIRST NAME [period]
  • [quotation mark] TITLE OF ARTICLE [period] [quotation mark]
  • TITLE OF JOURNAL in italics
  • VOLUME NUMBER [comma]
  • no. ISSUE NUMBER
  • [parenthesis] DATE OF PUBLICATION [parenthesis] [colon]
  • FULL PAGE RANGE [period]
  • STABLE URL [period]


    FORMATTING:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Journal in Italics Volume, no. Issue (Date): Full Page Range. URL.

 

    EXAMPLES:

Goldstein, Neal L. "Love's Labour's Lost and the Renaissance Vision of Love." Shakespeare Quarterly 25, no. 3 (Summer 1974): 335-50. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2868784.

Apple, Raymond. "Psalm 116: Conditional or Unconditional Love of God?" Jewish Bible Quarterly 48, no. 2 (April 2020): 99-102. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=jss&AN=144764857&login.asp&site=ehost-live.

Orih, Dominic. "Can There Be a Recourse to a Philosophy of Love? A Confronting Question at the Heart of a Poor Pedagogy." Interchange 53, no. 3-4 (December 2022): 599-617. https://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/article/386618981.

Smith, Ruth L. "Relationality and the Ordering of Differences in Feminist Ethics." Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 9, no. 1-2 (Spring/Fall 1993): 199-214. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25002209.

Williams, Tennessee. "Why Did Desdemona Love the Moor?" Tennessee Williams Annual Review, no. 19 (January 2020): 25-56. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edo&AN=148795325&site=eds-live&scope=site. [journal uses only issue numbers]