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A Guide for Music Citation - Chicago/Turabian Style (New 18th ed)

This guide is mostly based on the 18th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style.

F = Footnote B = Bibliography

Cite a score the same way that you cite books. Abbreviation for opus (op.) appears in lowercase. Number and its abbreviation (No.) appear in uppercase unless following an opus number (see Haydn below). Generic formats are not italicized. For questions about music titles, see left, "Common Challenges - Music titles"

F:  Clara Schumann, Three Romances for Violin and Piano, op. 22 (Breitkopf & Härtel, 2006).

B: Schumann, Clara. Three Romances for Violin and Piano, op. 22. Breitkopf & Härtel, 2006.

More examples in bibliographic style:

Adams, John. Gnarly Buttons. Boosey & Hawkes, 2001.
Beethoven, Ludwig von. Symphony No. 5, op. 67. Ernst Eulenburg, n.d. 
Chen, Yi. Meditation: Two Songs for Voice and Piano. Presser, 2006.
Harker, Russell P. "Indiana Victory." In Songs of Indiana University, ed. Budd A. Udell. Indiana University Bookstore, [196?].
Haydn, Joseph. Quartet, op. 76, no. 3 in C Major. Kalmus, n.d. 
Shaw, Caroline. Is a Rose. Published by the author, 2023. 
Strauss, Richard. "Salome Perceives Jokanaan." In Soprano Arias from the Operas. Boosey & Hawkes, [1943].

For a volume from a composer's collected set or collected works (call number begins with M3), see the Citing M3s tab. Composer collected works sets often have a title of Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke. 

For a volume from a monuments of music series (call number begins with M2), see the Citing M2s tab. Examples of monuments in music include Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance, Monuments of Dutch MusicDenkmäler deutscher Tonkunst, etc.