18. Citing Sources
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Information about how to cite sources:
Threading the Maze: A Guide to the Harvard Libraries for Students (Cite your sources)
Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. The online version includes Q&A, Tools, and the Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide to formats. A few commonly used music format examples below (See Chapter 17, Documentation II, Specific Content):
Score (sheet music):
Shakira, Wyclef Jean, Jerry Duplessis, Latavia Parker, Omar Alfanno, Luis Diaz. Hips Don't Lie (voice and piano, with guitar chord symbols and diagrams). Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard, 2005.
Sound recording (CD or LP, see 17.268 for more examples):
Sigur Ros. Ágætis Byrjun. Fatcat. 2000, 2001. PIAS America.
Discography: Those in monograph form may be cited as books; sound recordings have their own citation format and can be grouped in a discography section of your bibliography.
Video/DVD:
Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Ladysmith Black Mambazo: South African Music and its Influences. DVD. Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2004.
Electronic resources (See the Quick Guide for citing e-books, email messages, blog entries, and more):
Web Site:
All Music Guide. “Shakira Discography.” All Media Guide LLC. http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Shakira/Discography/Index/P174707/1/ (accessed January 30, 2008).
Article in an Online Journal:
Katz, Marco. "Salsa Criticism at the Turn of the Century: Identity Politics and Authenticity." Popular Music and Society 28, no. 1 (February, 2005),
http://ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=16130250&site=ehost-live&scope=site.