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

Courtesy of M.Shaw, Cook Music Library, Indiana University

Theses and Dissertations

  • Since theses and dissertations are unpublished, the title is given in quotation marks rather than italics.
  • For a thesis, replace "PhD diss." with "master's thesis."
  • If you consulted the dissertation online, name the database and include an identification number in parentheses. If the dissertation is online and freely available without a subscription, insert the link.

F: Beth K. Aracena, "Singing Salvation: Jesuit Musics in Colonial Chile, 1600–1767" (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 1999), 132, ProQuest (9943039). 

B: Aracena, Beth K. "Singing Salvation: Jesuit Musics in Colonial Chile, 1600–1767." PhD diss., University of Chicago, 1999. ProQuest (9943039).