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Updated . Example details checked against The New York Times, November 8, 2003 (the MLA Handbook newspaper example); The New Yorker, December 21 and 28, 2015 issue, pp. 42-50 (the MLA Handbook magazine example).
The Chicago format
Pattern
Last name, First name. “Headline.” Name of Newspaper, Month Day, Year. URL.
- Date as month day, year.
- Pages can be left out for newspapers, since editions differ.
- Online articles end with the URL.
- Many instructors let news articles appear in the notes only; Chicago allows leaving them out of the bibliography. Format lists them; ask yours.
A real example
Bibliography entry
Lewin, Tamar. “Disability Requests Reflect Changes in SAT Procedure.” The New York Times, November 8, 2003.
First footnote
Tamar Lewin, “Disability Requests Reflect Changes in SAT Procedure,” The New York Times, November 8, 2003.
Later footnotes
Lewin, “Disability Requests Reflect Changes.”
A magazine article
Bibliography entry
Kolbert, Elizabeth. “The Siege of Miami.” The New Yorker, December 21, 2015, 42–50.
First footnote
Elizabeth Kolbert, “The Siege of Miami,” The New Yorker, December 21, 2015, 44.
Later footnotes
Kolbert, “Siege of Miami,” 44.
When details are missing
- No writer: start the note with the newspaper name: New York Times, “Headline,” date.
- No URL for a print article: end after the date.
Common mistakes
- Volume and issue for a newspaper. News articles are identified by date.
- The headline in italics. Headlines take quotation marks.
Or let Format do it.
Paste the article’s link and Format reads the headline, writer, paper and date from the page; it uses the Newspaper or Magazine article kind. Format writes the notes and bibliography in Chicago, exactly as shown above, and builds the bibliography page when you export to Word or PDF. Chicago is part of Pro, $4 a month or $29 a year; MLA and APA are free.
Questions
Do newspapers go in the bibliography?
Chicago allows them to stay in the notes. Many instructors want them listed anyway.
How do I cite a magazine?
The same pattern, with the magazine in italics and the date of the issue.
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