Chicago Author-Date: Examples
Where you have a referencing query that is not answered by the following common examples, please refer to the Chicago Manual of Style (Author Date) or ask for help.
Page contents
Book with one author
Book with two authors
Book with three authors
Book by a corporate author
Book - edited
Chapter in edited book
Case law
Conference paper
Course handouts/PowerPoint presentations
Dictionary
Encyclopedia - entry in
Film (Video/DVD)
Journal article - academic/scholarly
Journal article - internet only version
Magazine article - popular/trade/general interest
Newspaper article
Newspaper article - web version
Newspaper article with no author
Personal communication (letters, telephone conversations, emails, interviews)
Statutes (Acts of Parliament)
Thesis
Website
Map
Planning Documents
1. Book with one author
In text citation:
(Coates 2002)
Reference list:
Coates, Glen. 2002. The Rise and Fall of the Southern Alps. Christchurch, NZ: Canterbury University Press.
2. Book with two authors
In text citation:
(Shadbolt and Ruhen 1971)
Reference list:
Shadbolt, Maurice, and Olaf Ruhen. 1971. Isles of the South Pacific, 2nd ed. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society.
3. Book with three authors
In text citation:
(Bankoff, Frerks, and Hilhorst 2004)
Note: With two or three authors, mention all names in text
Reference list:
Bankoff, Greg, Georg Frerks, and Thea Hilhorst. 2004. Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters, Development, and People. London: Earthscan.
4. Book by a corporate author
In text citation:
(Waikato Regional Council 1993)
Reference list:
Waikato Regional Council. 1993. Clean Water: Waikato River and Lake Taupo. Hamilton, NZ: Waikato Regional Council.
5. Book - edited
In text citation:
(Boissevain and Selwyn 2004)
Reference list:
Boissevain, Jeremy, and Tom Selwyn, eds. 2004. Contesting the Foreshore: Tourism, Society and Politics on the Coast. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Note: Terms such as editor or translator and abbreviated in a reference list (e.g. ed./eds. or trans.) and not included in the in-text citation.
6. Chapter in edited book
In text citation:
(Coombes 1994)
Note: For a chapter in an edited book include only the name/s of the authors in text.
Reference list:
Coombes, Annie. 1994. "The Distance Between Two Points: Global Culture and the Liberal Dilemma." In Travellers' Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement, edited by George Robertson, 177-80. London: Routledge.
7. Case law
In text citation:
New Zealand Maori Council v Attorney-General ([1987] 1 NZLR 641).
Reference list:
New Zealand Maori Council v Attorney-General [1987] 1 NZLR 641.
Note: The Chicago Manual of Style recommends using notes for citations to legal and public documents whenever possible (see 14.271).
8. Conference paper
In text citation:
(Ngata 2020)
Reference list:
Ngata, Tina. "Dismantling Colonial Legacies Upon Indigenous Landscapes." Keynote presented at the Biennial New Zealand Geographical Society Conference, Wellington, November 25, 2020.
Note: If a conference paper has been published in a book of proceedings treat it like a chapter in an edited book. If the proceedings are published in a journal, treat the paper as a journal article.
9. Course handouts/PowerPoint presentations
In-text reference:
(Campbell 2006)
Reference list:
Campbell, John. 2006. "The Meaning and Nature of Resources" [PowerPoint, GEOG103]. Department of Geography, Tourism and Environmental Planning, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
10. Dictionary
In-text reference:
(Gregory 2009)
Reference list:
Gregory, Derek, ed. 2009. The Dictionary of Human Geography. 5th ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
11. Encyclopedia - entry in
In-text reference:
(Howitt, Muller, and Suchet-Pearson 2009, 360)
Reference list:
Howitt, R., S. Muller, and S. Suchet-Pearson. 2009. "Indigenous Geographies A2." In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift, 358-64. Oxford: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-008044910-4.00705-7
Note: If you cannot find first names of authors, include just author initials (as above).
12. Film (Video/DVD)
In-text reference:
(Zubrycki 2011)
Reference list:
Zubrycki, Tom. 2011. The Hungry Tide. Canberra, ACT: Screen Australia.
13. Online streaming video (e.g. YouTube)
In-text reference:
(Minhealth 2021)
Reference list:
Minhealthnz. 2021. "Dr Ashley Bloomfield on the Safety Standards of the Pfizer / BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine." March 8, 2021. Video, 0:56. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi9-zkamEtc&list=PLhNeRwBqkeSUwmiFse6cuQ4B-IM2Kezcz.
Note: When directly quoting use the YouTube username in your in-text reference, but mention the person stating the quote within your text. For example: Ashley Bloomfield (Minhealthnz 2021) stated ...
14. Journal article - academic/scholarly
In-text reference:
(Wallace and Holman 2019)
Reference list:
Wallace, Pip, and Jennifer Holman. 2019. "The State of Well-being: A Search for Meaning in the New Zealand Regulatory Environment." New Zealand journal of Environmental Law 23 (2019): 1-30.
15. Journal article - internet only version
In-text reference:
(Basnet 2016)
Reference list:
Basnet, Sunita. 2016. "Feeling at Home? Former Bhutanese Refugee Women and Girls in New Zealand." Te Kura Kete Aronui 7. http://www.waikato.ac.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/317426/Sunita-Basnet-Feeling-at-Home.pdf.
Note: If a DOI is available include this with the formal https://doi.org/10.XXXXXXX. If a DOI is not provided, include a URL or the name of the database.
16. Magazine article - popular/trade/general interest
In-text reference:
(Stearns 1992, 110)
Reference list:
Stearns, Bob. 1992. "The El Nino Effect." Field & Stream, December, 1992, 110-3.
Note: As magazine articles normally don't have volume and issue numbers like journals, repeat the year of publication with the month (and day where applicable) to avoid any confusion.
17. Newspaper article - print version
In-text reference:
(Fallow 2007, A3)
Reference list:
Fallow, Brian. 2007. "Sobering Report for Energy Users Large and Small." New Zealand Herald, February 3, A3.
18. Newspaper article - web version (page numbers not available)
In-text reference:
(Davison 2017, para. 2)
Reference list:
Davison, Isaac. 2017. "Fact or Fiction: NZ's 41,000 Homeless." New Zealand Herald, August 22, 2017. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11908336
Note: When quoting items without page numbers, you may use paragraph numbers, section numbers or other numerical signposts. For more examples and explanation see 15.23.
19. Newspaper article with no author
In-text reference:
(Waikato Times 2006)
Reference list:
Waikato Times. 2006 "Work on Key City Bypass to Start." December 26, 2006, 1.
Note: If no author is listed for a newspaper article, use the tile of the newspaper in place of author in the reference list and in-text (see 15.49).
20. Personal communication (letters, telephone conversations, emails, interviews)
In-text reference:
(William White, email message to author, March 19, 2017)
Reference list:
Personal communications are only cited in text, and are rarely included in a reference list. Only cite in text, unless you are confident there should be a reference list entry.
21. Statutes (Acts of Parliament)
In-text reference:
(Resource Management Act 1991)
Reference list:
Resource Management Act 1991.
or
Resource Management Act 1991 (NZ).
22. Thesis
In-text reference:
(Stolte 2006)
Reference list:
Stolte, Ottilie Emma Elisabeth. 2006. "Training the "Disadvantaged" Unemployed: Policy Frameworks and Community Responses to Unemployment." Phd diss., University of Waikato. https://hdl.handle.net/10289/2572.
Note: The titles of theses and dissertations have quotation marks rather than italics as they are not formally published.
23. Website
In-text reference:
(McPherson 2020, para. 3)
(Waikato Regional Council 2018, under "Planting Guides")
Reference list:
McPherson, Grant. 2020. "From the CE: Manaakitanga: It's What we Do". https://enz.govt.nz/news-and-research/ed-news/from-the-ce-2/.
Waikato Regional Council. 2018. "Biodiversity." https://www.waikatoregion.govt.nz/environment/natural-resources/biodiversity/
Note: When multiple pages are referenced from the same website, reference the homepage.
If a website has no publication date use n.d. for "no date" and include access date (see examples 15.50).
24. Map
In-text reference:
(Land Information New Zealand 2009)
Reference list:
Land Information New Zealand. 2009. Hamilton BD33 (map). Edition 1. 1:50, 000. NZTopo50 series. Wellington, New Zealand: Land Information New Zealand.
Note: Give as much information as is available to allow another reader to find the same map.
25. Planning Documents
In-text reference:
(Waikato District Council 2021, 10)
(Waikato District Council 2014)
Reference list:
Waikato District Council. 2014. Wastewater Activity Management Plan. Ngaruawahia, NZ: Waikato District Council. https://www.waikatodistrict.govt.nz/docs/default-source/your-council/plans-policies-and-bylaws/plans/wastewater-activity-management-plan/wastewater-activity-management-plan.pdf
------. 2021. Long Term Plan 2021-2031. https://www.waikatodistrict.govt.nz/docs/default-source/your-council/plans-policies-and-bylaws/plans/long-term-plan/long-term-plan-2021-31.pdf
Note: When you have multiple items with the same creator, order chronologically by year of publication. You may use a 3-em dash in place of the repeated author field (see 15.17.15.20).
Webpages are considered unpublished so quotation marks are used for the title rather than italics, but a published planning document is published and available online, as such the italics is used for the title.
Officer report by council staff:
In-text reference:
(Waipa District Council 2014)
(Waikato Regional Council 2018)
Reference list:
Waipa District Council. 2014. Section 42a Planner's Report of Jane Andrews in the Matter of an Application by Petfoods Ltd. for Land Use Consent#46821222. Te Awamutu, NZ: Andrews.
Waikato Regional Council. 2018. Section 42a Planner's Report of Alana Smith in the Matter of Proposed Waikato Regional Plan Change 1 - Waipā Catchments. Hamilton, NZ: Smith.
Report by consultant:
In-text reference:
(Planning Consultants Ltd 2014)
Reference list:
Planning Consultants Ltd. 2014 Section 42A Planner's Report of Kerry Smith in the Matter of an Application by Petfoods Ltd. for Land Use Consent to the Waipa District Council 46821222. Hamilton, NZ: Planning Consultants Ltd.