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A Guide for Music Citation - Chicago/Turabian Style

This guide supports music students by providing examples and tips for Chicago/Turabian style citation. It covers all types of music sources, including texts, scores, and recordings.

Online

  • Oxford Music Online, formerly known as Grove, calls itself a dictionary, but functions like an encyclopedia, yet features signed articles by experts in their fields. The citation format provided here is a hybrid of the journal article style and the signed article encyclopedia style
  •  Deane Root is the editor for Grove Online.
F:

1. Edward Strickland, "Glass, Philip," Grove Music Online, ed. Deane Root, accessed June 30, 2016, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.

B:

Strickland, Edward. "Glass, Philip." Grove Music Online. Edited by Deane Root. Accessed June 30, 2016. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.

Print

F:

1. Edward Strickland, "Glass, Philip," The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, eds. Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001), ix: 934.

B:

Strickland, Edward. "Glass, Philip." The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan, 2001. ix: 932-936.
  • At the end of the citation, list the volume in Roman numerals and the page numbers in Arabic numerals.