MUHL 286 Quick Guide to Citation Style

Prepared by Margaret Cormier

PERIODICAL ARTICLE
Footnote:
1
Mark Everist, “Grand Opera–Petit Opera: Parisian Opera and Ballet from the
Restoration to the Second Empire,” 19th–Century Music 33, no. 3 (2010): 196.

Bibliography:
Everist, Mark. “Grand Opera–Petit Opera: Parisian Opera and Ballet from the Restoration to the
Second Empire.” 19th–Century Music 33, no. 3 (2010): 195-231.

BOOK
Footnote:
1
Barbara Winchester and Kay Dunlap, Vocal Chamber Music: A Performers Guide (New York:
Routledge, 2008), 56.

Bibliography:
Winchester, Barbara, and Kay Dunlap. Vocal Chamber Music: A Performers Guide. New York:
Routledge, 2008.

ARTICLE/CHAPTER IN EDITED BOOK

Footnote:
1
Glenn Gould, “Streisand as Schwarzkopf,” in The Glenn Gould Reader, ed. Tim Page (New
York: Vintage, 1984), 310.

Bibliography:
Gould, Glenn. “Streisand as Schwarzkopf.” In The Glenn Gould Reader, edited by Tim Page,
308-11. New York: Vintage, 1984.

REFERENCE WORKS ONLINE

Footnote:
1
Robert Winter, Maurice Brown, and Eric Sams, “Schubert, Franz,” in Grove Music Online,
Oxford Music Online, Oxford University Press, accessed November 2, 2017.
http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/25109pg1.

Bibliography:
Winter, Robert, Maurice Brown, and Eric Sams. “Schubert, Franz.” In Grove Music Online.
Oxford Music Online. Oxford Universirt Press, accessed November 2, 2017.
http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/25109pg1.

*Note: Use the simple URL you get when you use the “Citation” feature on Grove Music Online
rather than the long McGill proxy address that will be in your URL bar.
Subsequent Citations in Footnotes
When you cite the same page of the same source in directly subsequent footnotes, you can use
Ibid. For a different page in the same source, use Ibid with the new page number.

When you cite a source you have cited earlier with at least one different source between them
(i.e. when you cannot use Ibid) use a shortened citation consisting of the author last name, title,
and page number separated by commas. The title is generally shortened if it is longer than four
words.

Ex.)
1
Mark Everist, “Grand Opera–Petit Opera: Parisian Opera and Ballet from the
Restoration to the Second Empire,” 19th–Century Music 33, no. 3 (2010): 196.
2
Ibid.
3
Ibid., 198.
4
Barbara Winchester and Kay Dunlap, Vocal Chamber Music: A Performers Guide (New York:
Routledge, 2008), 56.
5
Everist, “Grand Opera–Petit Opera,” 200.
6
Winchester and Dunlap, Vocal Chamber Music, 56.

Formatting the Bibliography

The bibliography should occupy its own page with the title Works Cited centered at the top. Like
the rest of your paper, this will be double-spaced. Each new entry is left justified and subsequent
lines are indented. Organize your list alphabetically by last name.

The Basics
Insert footnotes after the punctuation but before the period at the end of a sentence of quoted or
paraphrased material from one of your sources, like this.1 Every source that appears in a footnote
needs to appear again in your Works Cited section at the end. So BOTH styles given above will
appear in your paper.2 You will notice the information required is almost identical between the
two formats, but it is arranged slightly differently.3

1
In Microsoft Word, use the Insert tab (or the References tab, for some versions) and select
Insert Footnote. The numbers, order, and formatting will all take care of themselves
automatically.
2
Use the “Footnote” style following the number at the bottom of the page (which will be
generated automatically when you Insert Footnote) and use the “Bibliography” style for all of
your sources, arranged alphabetically, at the end of your paper on a Works Cited page.
3
Be aware of order of elements and punctuation.