Gladhill Learning Commons FAQ: Citations

This information has been updated for the 18th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style.

To cite a journal article, use the following format:

Footnotes/Endnotes

1. First Name Last Name of Author, "Article Title," Title of Journal volume, no. issue (Date of Publication): page, DOI. 

1.Shannon Iverson, "The Enduring Toltecs: History and Truth During the Aztec-to-Colonial Transition at Tula, Hidalgo,” Journal of Archaeological Method & Theory 24, no. 1 (March 2017): 100, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-017-9316-4.

Bibliography:

Last Name, First Name of Author. "Article Title.” Journal Title volume, no. issue (publication date): page range of article. DOI.

Iverson, Shannon. “The Enduring Toltecs: History and Truth During the Aztec-to-Colonial Transition at Tula, Hidalgo.” Journal of Archaeological Method & Theory 24, no. 1 (March 2017): 90–116. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-017-9316-4.

Three or more authors:

If you have three or more authors, you include only the name of the first author in the note and the abbreviation "et al." You include up to six authors in the bibliography. If the article has more than six, include the first three and "et al."

For example: 

Footnotes/Endnotes

1. Aurélie Fischer et al., “Trajectories of Persisting Covid- 19 Symptoms up to 24 Months After Acute Infection: Findings from the Predi-Covid Cohort Study,” BMC Infectious Diseases 25, no. 1 (April 25, 2025): 1–12. https://doi:10.1186/s12879-025-11023-0.

Bibliography

Fischer, Aurélie, Lu Zhang, Abir Elbéji et al. “Trajectories of Persisting Covid- 19 Symptoms up to 24 Months After Acute Infection: Findings from the Predi-Covid Cohort Study.” BMC Infectious Diseases 25, no. 1 (April 25, 2025): 1–12, https://doi:10.1186/s12879-025-11023-0.

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