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Sound Recording - Musical Genres

Citation Examples

 

Sound Recording - Musical

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.

Sound Recordings

Format

Last name, First name Middle initial. Title of Work. Format. City: Publishing Company, copyright date. Source, Collection. Medium, http://...(accessed date).

Example:
O'Sullivan, Eamonn. The West Asleep. Wilgus (D.K.) Collection. sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, two track, mono, https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz00089c21(accessed October 1, 2024).

 

Chicago Citation Format
(Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed., sections 17.270, 8.205)

Structure:

  1. Author’s last name, first name, middle initial (if given) [include performer, composer, etc.].
  2. Title of album (in italics) (Title of a song, a poem or a single photograph is in quotes, not italics).
  3. Format (sound recording).
  4. Publisher city: publishing company, copyright date.
  5. Source (From Library of Congress in normal font), Collection name with dates (in italics).
  6. Medium (software requirement needed to access source, i.e. MP3, RealAudio, WAV).
  7. URL (use bibliographic record URL).
  8. Accessed date (in parenthesis).