The general form for CMS Author-Date in-text citation is (Author Last Name Year of Publication, Page Number). Here are some examples of what they would look like:
For one author:
(Brown 2013, 167)
For two or three authors:
(Mitchell and Evans 2017, 31)
For four or more authors:
(Doe et al. 2016, 85)
Authors with the same last name, use first initials:
(M. Mitchell 2016)
(A. Mitchell 2016)
Author with multiple works in the same year:
(Davis 2015a)
(Davis 2015b)
To cite specific pages (such as when you are quoting or paraphrasing a specific part):
(Johnson 2014, 34-45)
To cite more than one source:
(Jones 2013; Williams 2015)
| Print Book |
Format: Last Name, First Name. Year of Publication. Title of Work: Subtitle. Publication City: Publisher. Bibliography Entry: Grazer, Brian, and Charles Fishman. 2015. A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life. New York: Simon & Schuster. In-Text Citation: (Grazer and Fishman 2015, 12) |
| Edited Book |
Format: Author Last Name, First Name. Year of Publication. Title. Edited by First Name Last Name. City of Publication: Publisher. Bibliography Entry: Barker, Heidi Bulmahn. 2004. Teachers and the Reform of Elementary Science: Stories of Conversation and Personal Process. Edited by Ian Westbury and Margery D. Osborne. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing. In-Text Citation: (Barker 2004, 14) |
| Chapter or other part of an Edited Book |
Format: Last Name, First Name. Year of Publication. "Chapter Title." In Title of Book, edited by First Name Last Name, Page Numbers. Publication City: Publisher. Bibliography Entry: Thoreau, Henry David. 2016. "Walking." In The Making of the American Essay, edited by John D'Agata, 167-95. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press. In-Text Citation: (Thoreau 2016, 176-77) |
| Translated Book |
Format: Last Name, First Name. Year of Publication. Title of Book. Translated by First Name Last Name. Publication City: Publisher. Bibliography Entry: Lahiri, Jhumpa. 2016. In Other Words. Translated by Ann Goldstein. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. In-Text Citation: (Lahiri 2016, 146). |
| Electronic Book (eBook) |
Format: Last Name, First Name. Year of Publication. Title of Book. Publication City: Publisher. Media Edition. Note: Media edition might be Kindle edition, PDF e-book, Microsoft Reader e-book, Palm e-book, CD-ROM, etc. Bibliography Entry: Borel, Brooke. 2016. The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ProQuest Ebrary. In-Text Citation: (Borel 2016, 92) |
| Online Encyclopedia or Dictionary | NOTE: Citations for well-known encyclopedias and dictionaries are usually cited only in-text. For majority of other reference works, cite them as you would for an eBook. |
| Print Encyclopedia or Dictionary | NOTE: Citations for well-known encyclopedias and dictionaries are usually cited only in-text. For majority of other reference works, cite them as you would for a print book. |