Citing theses and manuscripts (Chicago author date)

Theses and Manuscripts

1. Theses and dissertations: in-text citation

The in-text citation for theses and dissertations contain the last name of the author and the year of publication.

 

Sample Sentence:

Schoenberg’s Erwartung is an “operatic enigma,” encouraging an array of interpretative methods to uncover its many meanings (Carpenter 2004, 2).

Theses and dissertations: reference list

Theses and dissertations can be cited in author-date format by adapting the notes-bibliography recommendations (CMOS 14.215). Theses and dissertations are treated similar to books except that the title is in quotation marks rather than italics, and citations include information on the type of thesis and academic institution. Include a URL for documents consulted online. If you accessed the work through a commercial database like ProQuest Dissertations, include this information in the citation along with an identification number if it has one.

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2. Manuscripts: in-text citation

The in-text citation for a manuscript includes the last name of the author, followed by the year of the version consulted. If the year of the manuscript is unknown, the second element in the citation should indicate “n.d.” which stands for “no date” (CMOS 15.44).

 

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Sample Sentence:

The music library clearly documents circulation policies and procedures to ensure consistency for our patrons (MacLean 2015).

Manuscripts: reference list

The term “manuscript” generally refers to various types of unpublished documents. In music-related studies, this is often either an author’s text, possibly on its way to being published, or a historical document like the Old Hall Manuscript. For documents of the former type, entries begin with the author’s name followed by the date of the version consulted. The title of the manuscript appears next in quotation marks, followed by the indication “unpublished manuscript.” The specific version or modification date comes next and the format of the manuscript.

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For book manuscripts that are still in the process of being published and have not yet been released, the term “forthcoming” appears as the second element in the entry.

3. Manuscript collections (CMOS 15.54): in-text citations

 

The in-text citation for a manuscript collection typically contains the manuscript title. If you are citing a single item in a manuscript collection, the in-text citation may contain the last name of the author if known as the first element. If the author is unknown, the title of the individual item may appear as the first element. If possible, include the page number or file number of the manuscript in in-text citations. Manuscripts may have page numbers, file numbers, or folio numbers, or may be unnumbered. Due to this ambiguity, the inclusion of the page, file, or folio number is optional.

 

Sample Sentence:

In this conductus example dating from the late twelfth or early thirteenth century, the text-setting is largely syllabic (“Ave virgo virginum,” fol. 240r-240v).

Manuscript collections (CMOS 15.54 ): reference list

The reference list entry for manuscript collections typically contains the name of the author or composer if known, the title of the manuscript, the title of any larger collection it may be a part of, and the name of the depository in which it is located.

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If you are citing an individual item from a manuscript collection, the name of the individual item should appear in quotation marks after the author/composer. If a shelf listing identifier is available, this information may be included after the title of the item, but is not strictly necessary. Although a date does not appear in the reference list entry, dates, when known, should appear in the text when making reference to the item.

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