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Music Research Guide

The Music Department uses Chicago style citations. Some examples:


Journal article from a print journal
Rafferty, Michael. "More Thoughts on Popular Music in the Classroom." Music Educators Journal 94, no. 1 (2007): 6-7.


Journal article from one of the Library databases
Rafferty, Michael. 2007. "More Thoughts on Popular Music in the Classroom." Music Educators Journal 94, no. 1: 6-7. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed June 25, 2008).


Web Site

Women Composers and Women’s Music. http://library.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/women.html. Accessed June 25, 2008.


Book
Christensen, Thomas Street, ed. The Cambridge history of Western music theory. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

The following websites provide a simple way to create a citation. Fill
in the information about the item, then copy and paste the citation
into your bibliography or footnote.


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