Chicago Manual of Style 15th Edition

 

Political Science 5397

Applied Research Project

 

Patricia M. Shields

Texas State University

 

The Author-Date System

“Sources are cited in the text, usually in parentheses, by the author’s family (last) name, the publication date of the work cited, and a page number if needed. Full details appear in the bibliography – usually titled “References” or “Works Cited – in which the year of publication appears immediately after the author’s name.”  16.4 [1]

 

Chicago 15 affords considerable flexibility.  The examples below show the flexibility of the style.

 

 

Examples: Parenthetical Text Citations

 

For example, Karen Evans (2000, 308) suggests that public administration should “reclaim the philosophy of John Dewey as a guiding ethos for practice.”

 

One might even argue that historically, PA education traces its distinctiveness to the role of practitioner experience (Stivers 2000, 104).

 

Scholars such as McSwite (1977), King and Stivers (1998), and Adams and Balfour (1998) posit that experts enamored with their technical knowledge and skills often become detached from larger public purposes.

 

As Paul Appleby (1962, 175) noted in his classic Public Administration Review essay, experts should be “on tap not on top.”

 

Perhaps because of policies such as those during the Vietnam War, in which the problem orientation and the use of efficiency techniques were applied with disastrous effect, the focus on a problem has been criticized in the PA literature (Hummel and Stiver 1998; Adams and Balfour 1998; Goodsell 1994).

 

 

 

 

 

Example:  References  or Works Cited

 

Article (single author)

 

Evans, Karen. 2000. Reclaiming John Dewey: Democracy, inquiry, pragmatism and public management. Administration & Society 32(3): 308-328.

 

Appleby, P. 1962. Making sense of things in general. Public Administration Review 22 (4): 175-181.

 

 

Book (single author)

 

Stivers, Camilla. 2000. Bureau men, settlement women: Constructing public administration in the Progressive Era. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press.

 

McSwite, O. C. 1997. Legitimacy in public administration: A discourse analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

 

 

Book (single author later edition)

 

Goodsell, Charles. 1994. The case for bureaucracy: A public administration polemic. 3rd ed. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House.

 

 

Book (two authors)

 

Addams, G and D. Balfour. 1998. Unmasking administrative evil. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

 

 

Edited Book (two authors)

 

King, Cheryl and Camilla Stivers. Eds. 1998. Government is us: Public administration in an anti-government era. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

 

 

Chapter in a book

 

Hummel, R. and C. Stivers. 1998. Government isn’t us: The possibility of democratic knowledge in representative government. In Government is us: Public administration in an anti-government era, ed. C. King and C. Stivers, 28-48. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

 

 

For more: http://www.williams.edu/library/citing/styles/chicago2.php

 

 


[1] The Chicago Manual of Style 15th edition.  The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Each paragraph is referenced in Chicago 15.  In this instance Chapter 16 paragraph 4 is referenced.