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Chicago Style: Articles From Journals

“For a source consulted via a library . . . database and available only through a . . . library account, it may be best to name the database [rather than provide] a URL” (CMOS 14.11).

Journal article from the Academic Search Complete database on EBSCOhost

Davis, Wade. 2018. “If We Build It, They Will Come: Industrial Folly and the Fate of Northwest British Columbia.” BC Studies, no. 197 (Spring): 145-62. Academic Search Complete.

Parenthetical citation: (Davis 2018, 151)

“A URL based on a DOI, which will always direct readers to information about the source, if not full access to it, should be preferred where available” (CMOS 14.11).

"[O]nly the first seven should be listed . . . followed by et al." (CMOS 14.76)

“[S]ometimes only a volume and issue number will be available. . . . When that is the case, the issue number is placed in parentheses” (CMOS 15.47).

Journal article with a DOI, more than ten authors

Dyck, Roland F., Chandima Karunanayake, Bonnie Janzen, Josh Lawson, Vivian R. Ramsden, Donna C. Rennie, P. Jenny Gardipy et al. 2015. "Do discrimination, residential school attendance and cultural disruption add to individual-level diabetes risk among Aboriginal people in Canada?" BMC Public Health 15 (1): 1222-1233. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2551-2.

Parenthetical citation: (Dyck et al. 2015, 1222)