Chicago Manual multiple authors (et al.) not translated correctly?

AnneH

Hi, I am using the following style: Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition (author-date).

I have the following two references:

Langlois, Ganaele, Greg Elmer, Fenwick McKelvey, and Zachary Devereaux. 2009. “Networked Publics: The Double Articulation of Code and Politics on Facebook.” Canadian Journal of Communication 34 (3). http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/viewArticle/2114.

Langlois, Ganaele, Fenwick McKelvey, Greg Elmer, and Kenneth Werbin. 2009. “Mapping Commercial Web 2.0 Worlds: Towards a New Critical Ontogenesis.” Fibreculture, no. 14. http://fourteen.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-095-mapping-commercial-web-2-0-worlds-towards-a-new-critical-ontogenesis/.

which translate into (Langlois, Elmer, et al. 2009; Langlois, McKelvey, et al. 2009) as an inline citation. I can understand why, since both have four authors, the same leading author and the same year. However, doesn't Chicago require them to be (Langlois et al. 2009a; Langlois et al. 2009b)?

Since Chicago states that "For four or more authors, list all of the authors in the bibliography; in the note, list only the first author, followed by et al. (“and others”):"
And that "Two publications by the same author in the same year. Use "a" and "b" to differentiate between the two."

Thanks for your help.

Anne

adamsmith

If a reference list includes another work of the same date that would also be abbreviated as “Schonen et al.” but whose coauthors are different persons or listed in a different order, the text citations must distinguish between them. In such cases, the first two authors (or the first three) should be cited, followed by et al.

(Schonen, Baker, et al. 2009)
(Schonen, Brooks, et al. 2009)

CMoS 15.28

AnneH

Hi Adam,

Thank you for clearing that up to me, unfortunately my abbreviated CMoS did not include that essential information.

Anne