Chicago (Author-Date) Citation Generator
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What is Chicago (Author-Date) citation style?
Chicago Manual of Style 18th edition (author-date) is a author–date citation style. Author–date in-text citations with a reference list. Sciences and social sciences using Chicago author-date.
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