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Chicago 18th edition author-date

Author-date for the Chicago Manual of Style 18th edition

About reference lists

The reference list is the prime vehicle for documenting your sources (13.111). The full details of a work are listed in the reference list.  Reference lists can also be titled “References” or “Works Cited”.  Reference lists are arranged alphabetically except that  multiple sources by the same author are arranged chronologically (in ascending order from oldest to newest) (13.112). Chicago now recommends repeating the author's name for successive works by the same author rather than using a 3-em dash (13.113).

If the author, editor, or translator for the work is unknown, the reference list entry should normally begin with the title (13.81).

Two or more works by the same author in the same year must be differentiated by the addition of a, b, c etc. (13.114).

13.102 includes an example of a reference list.