Chicago Manual of Style 18th edition (author-date, classic variants)

Anthropology, Communications, Geography, History, Humanities, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, Science, Social Science, Sociology, Theology

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Website
Earth Science Communications Team, NASA. n.d. “Climate Change: Evidence and Causes”. NASA Global Climate Change. Accessed March 15, 2024. https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/.
In-text (Earth Science Communications Team, n.d.)
Book
Lee, Harper. 1960. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.
In-text (Lee 1960)
Journal Article
Watson, James D., and Francis H. C. Crick. 1953. “The Structure of DNA”. Nature 171 (4356): 737-38. https://doi.org/10.1038/171737a0.
In-text (Watson and Crick 1953)
Newspaper Article
Wilford, John Noble. 1969. “Man Walks on Moon”. Front Page. The New York Times, July 21.
In-text (Wilford 1969)

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