HMU345: Global Popular Musics

The predominant guide for citing your sources in musicology is the Chicago Manual of Style (CMoS). This course requests that you use the Author-Date format. The 17th edition of the CMoS is available as of Sep. 1, 2017. 

The CMoS can be a challenge to use if you're not familiar with it, so the library created a citation guide with music specific examples throughout. It includes examples of footnotes/endnotes and in-text citations, as well as bibliographic entries, along with links to the CMoS if you'd prefer to read the rules in their entirety. It also includes samples with helpful descriptors identifying the various elements needed for citations, as with the examples below:

Example of an in-text citation:

(Author Last Name Year Published).

(Bonds 2014).

Example of an in-text citation with a page number reference:

(Author Last Name Year Published, page).

(Bonds 2014, 57).

Example of a bibliographic entry:

Author Last Name, First Name. Title in Italics. City of Publication: Name of Publisher, Year Published. DOI or URL as applicable.

Bonds, Mark Evan. Absolute Music: The History of an Idea. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199343638.001.0001.