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Citing Sources, With Link to Chicago, DO NOT USE: Citing other common formats

Lisa's Citing Sources with expanded Chicago

Formats

General Tips

CITING FILM

  • Medium may include Film (if watched in theater), DVD, Videocasette, Laser disc.
  • Online videos should be cited as Web (see Citing websites, online videos, blog posts, and tweets).
  • At your option, you may provide the year the film was originally released. Place it before the distributor. Close with a period.
  • For foreign movies, give the English title, with original title in square brackets, italicized.

CITING INTERVIEWS

Published interviews

  • Medium depends on where interview was published and may include Print, Web, Radio, Television, DVD.
  • If interview is untitled, label as Interview.
  • Add interviewer's name, if known.

Conducted interviews

CITING TV OR RADIO BROADCASTS

  • Identify medium as Television or Radio.

CITING A SOUND RECORDING

  • Medium may include CD, LP, Audiocassette, MP3

Examples

General Format

CITING FILM

Film title. Dir. Director's name. Perf. Performer names. Distributor.  Year of release.

Medium.

CITING INTERVIEWS

Last name, first name of interviewee. "Title of interview." Title of source or program.

Network or station.  Date. Medium.

CITING TV OR RADIO BROADCASTS

"Title of segment or episode".  Title of program or series. Name of network. Network

or radio call letters, city of local station, broadcast date.  Medium.

CITING A SOUND RECORDING

Performer. "Song title." Album title. Perf. Name of Artists (optional). Label, year.

Medium.

CITING A WORK OF ART

Artist. Title of piece. Date. Medium. Location/museum, City.

CITING A SPEECH

Last, First M. “Speech title.” Meeting / Organization. Location. Date. Description.


Examples

Items in green indicate variations in the citation based on the format.

Film (watched in a theater)

Pride & Prejudice. Dir. Joe Wright. Prod. Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Paul Webster. By Deborah

Moggach. Perf. Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn, and Donald Sutherland.

Focus Features, 2005. Film.

Film (in DVD format)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Dir. Mike Newell. Perf. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma

Watson, Robbie Coltrane. Warner Home Video, 2006. DVD.

Interview published in a daily newspaper

Spears, Britney. “Pop’s Baddest Good Girl.” Hollywood Reporter. 2 Dec. 2002: S6. Print.

  • Begin with the person being interviewed, then the title of the interview, or if untitled, use the label Interview. Provide the interviewer’s name if pertinent to your paper.
  • Remaining format is based on where the interview is published (e.g. magazine, newspaper, web site). For each medium, follow the standard formats for that medium to include the volume, issue, date, and format.

Interview that you conducted in person

Olsen, Lute. Personal interview. 23 Feb. 2007.

  • If interview was done over the phone, replace Personal Interview with Telephone Interview.

TV or radio broadcast

“The Phantom of Corleone.” Narr. Steve Kroft. Sixty Minutes. CBS. WCBS, New York, 10 Dec.

2006. Television.

  • For television broadcasts, after the title of the program (italicized), identify the narrator, name of the network (if any), call letters and city of local station, broadcast date, and format.
  • Radio broadcasts have the same structure; just replace the format, Television, with Radio.

Sound Recording

Gotye. "Somebody That I Used to Know." Making Mirrors. Universal Music, 2012. CD.

Work of Art (in a museum)

Waddell, Theodore. Motherwell's Angus # 6. 1996. Oil, encaustic on canvas. Tucson Museum

of Art, Tucson, AZ.

Work of Art (in a book)

Portrait of a Flavian Lady. AD 90. Museo Capitolino, Rome. Roman Art. By Nancy H.

Ramage and Andrew Ramage. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1996. 147. Print.

Work of Art (online)

Weems, Carrie Mae. From Here I Saw What Happened And I Cried. 1995. Photograph.

P.P.O.W., N. P. ARTstor. Larry Qualls. Web. 7 June 2012.