Library Digital Collections

Example Citations

• Scores
• Vocal Scores

The examples use The Chicago Manual of Style Online 17th edition because it does not require a particular order of elements and is often a good citation style for archival, manuscript, or photograph collections, however, the citations should be consistent in their order.

Vocal Score

Footnote Structure

1. First Name Last Name, Title of Score [alternate title if given], Date Created, Edition, Collection [if given]. Title of Website, accessed Access Date, URL. 

Shortened Footnote Structure

2. Last Name, Title of Score, Date Created.

Bibliography Entry Structure

Last Name, First Name, Title of Score [alternate title if given], Date Created, Edition, Collection [if given]. Title of Website, accessed Access Date, URL. 

Footnote Example

1. Deems Taylor, King's Henchman: lyric drama in three acts: opus 19, 1926, Fischer Edition no. 5725, Music Books and Scores. UCLA Digital Library Collections, accessed September 20, 2024, https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/z1w14p6s.

Shortened Footnote Example

Taylor, King's Henchman: lyric drama in three acts: opus 19, 1926.

Bibliography Entry Example

Taylor, Deems, King's Henchman: lyric drama in three acts: opus 19, 1926, Fischer Edition no. 5725, Music Books and Scores. UCLA Digital Library Collections, accessed September 20, 2024, https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/z1w14p6s.

Caption for a IFFF of the Score Inserted in Your Paper Example

Figure 1. King's Henchman: lyric drama in three acts: opus 19, 1926

 

Published Scores

(Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed., sections 14.155, 14.2)

Structure (Include as much of the following as can be determined):

Any facts relevant to identifying the item should be included

• Author: full name of author(s) or editor(s) or, if no author or editor is listed, name of institution standing in their place; see also 13.74–86
• Title: full title of the score, including subtitle if there is one; see also 13.87–101
• Edition, if not the first (a first edition is assumed by the absence of an edition statement)
• Editor, compiler, or translator, if any, if listed on title page in addition to author
• Volume: total number of volumes if multivolume work is referred to as a whole; individual number if single volume of multivolume work is cited, and title of individual volume if applicable
• Series title if applicable, and volume number within series if series is numbered
• Facts of publication: publisher and date (city of publication is no longer required)
• Page number(s) (as for a specific citation in a note)
• URL or persistent identifier; for other types of electronic books, the name of the application or format (see also 13.6–12)

 

 

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Scores (documents for music)

Footnote Structure

1. First Name Last Name, Title of Score [alternate title if given], Date Created, Edition, Collection [if given]. Title of Website, accessed Access Date, URL. 

Shortened Footnote Structure

2. Last Name, Title of Score, Date Created.

Bibliography Entry Structure

Last Name, First Name, Title of Score [alternate title if given], Date Created, Edition, Collection [if given]. Title of Website, accessed Access Date, URL. 

Footnote Example

1. Abufelado [English translation Puffed Up], Partituras de Frevo da Banda Capitão Zuzinha. n.d. UCLA Digital Library Collections, accessed September 20, 2024, https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/z1616j74.

Shortened Footnote Example

Abufelado, n.d.

Bibliography Entry Example

Abufelado [English translation Puffed Up], Partituras de Frevo da Banda Capitão Zuzinha. n.d. UCLA Digital Library Collections, accessed September 20, 2024, https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/z1616j74.

Caption for a IFFF of the Score Inserted in Your Paper Example

Figure 1. Abufelado, n.d.

 

Published Scores

(Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed., sections 14.155, 14.2)

Structure (Include as much of the following as can be determined):

Any facts relevant to identifying the item should be included

• Author: full name of author(s) or editor(s) or, if no author or editor is listed, name of institution standing in their place; see also 13.74–86
• Title: full title of the score, including subtitle if there is one; see also 13.87–101
• Edition, if not the first (a first edition is assumed by the absence of an edition statement)
• Editor, compiler, or translator, if any, if listed on title page in addition to author
• Volume: total number of volumes if multivolume work is referred to as a whole; individual number if single volume of multivolume work is cited, and title of individual volume if applicable
• Series title if applicable, and volume number within series if series is numbered
• Facts of publication: publisher and date (city of publication is no longer required)
• Page number(s) (as for a specific citation in a note)
• URL or persistent identifier; for other types of electronic books, the name of the application or format (see also 13.6–12)