24 Chicago Author-date
In the author-date system an in-text citation is included in parentheses after the cited material. The citation provides:
- author’s surname
- year of publication
- page number.
The same paragraph from the previous chapter is given in the box below using in-text citations instead of note references. Note that where authors are clearly identified in the text, names are not needed in the citation.
Beard and Gloag state that criticism does not always form part of musicology as it is generally done in the context of professional journalism (2016, 62). In more recent writing, we are often reminded of the ever-changing stance of musicology with respect to its subject matter and the emergence of a “post-critical” attitude in connection to canonical works (See 2023, 181). In the context of indeterminate delineations such as these, it is worth reflecting on Guido Adler’s original prescription for the discipline, made in 1898: “The highest goal to which I aspire in the study of art is to work on behalf of art through the knowledge of art” (qtd. in Karnes 2020, 15)
The full details of each citation are then included in the reference list at the end of the document. This list is usually called “References” or “Works Cited.”
References
Beard, David and Kenneth Gloag. 2016. Musicology: The Key Concepts (New York: Routledge). https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315647463/musicology-key-concepts-david-beard-kenneth-gloag.
Karnes, Kevin C. 2020. “History, Historicism, Historiography,” in The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Paul Watt, Sarah Collins and Michael Ellis, 15–32. Oxford: Oxford Academic. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190616922.013.1.
See, Truman. 2023. “On Inaudible Violence and the Postcritical Musicology: Rehearing Schubert’s ‘Heidenröslein,’” The Journal of Musicology 40, no. 2: 180–212. https://doi.org/10.1525/jm.2023.40.2.180.
The main difference between the formatting of entries in a bibliography vs a reference list lies in the placement of the year of publication:
- bibliography entries place the date later in the entry, usually after the publisher’s name
- reference list entries place the date immediately after the author(s) names(s).
