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CMOS - Chicago Manual of Style 


CMOS Article - Electronic

Last name, First name "Article Title.Title of Journal  Issue, Volume (Year of publication): Page Numbers. Access Date. URL.

Example:

Bent, Henry E. "Professionalization of the Ph.D. Degree.” College Composition and Communication 58, no. 4 (2007): 0-145. Accessed December 4, 2017. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1978286.

 

CMOS Book

Last name, First nameTitle of Book. Place of publication: Publisher, Year of publication.

Example:

Kerouac, JackThe Dharma Bums. New York: Viking Press, 1958.

 

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