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Topic: Chicago Style citation question
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| robbo | Posted – 1/31/2008 4:07:50 PM | show profile I'm proofreading a book using Chicago Style. The author uses endnotes, a bibliography, and in-text parenthetical citations. My question concerns the parenthetical citations. She's not using the author-date system, she's using the title of the work and page number. Example (Title 42). Should there be a comma between the title and the page number? I can't find the answer in the manual and it's driving me crazy! Thanks to anyone who can help! |
| robbo | Posted – 1/31/2008 4:25:55 PM | show profile I should add that she's using abbreviations for the title in the citation. So instead of "The Sound and the Fury" it would be (SF 42). |
| rhino writer | Posted – 1/31/2008 6:36:20 PM | show profile OK, so she's not really using Chicago style. I would go with the comma, using the rationale that she's replaced the author/date with the title of the work. According to Chicago 16.10, a comma is used between author/date and the page (Kasper 1999, 10-11), so I think it should be (SF, 25) in this case. Grr. I hate it when people follow a style, but not really! |
| robbo | Posted – 1/31/2008 6:39:13 PM | show profile Thanks for the reply! |
