Q. How would you cite the publication date of a republished journal article? For example, a piece that was published in 1967 but can only (easily) be found as a republication in the fiftieth anniversary of the journal it was originally published in. Do you cite the newer date, the original date, or both? I’m procrastinating on writing a final paper by scrolling the Q&A, but I’m not having any luck finding the answer!
A. Normally, you should cite the version you consulted or the best version if you consulted more than one. But Chicago-style source citations can easily accommodate extra details, so if you think it’s important to acknowledge more than one version, you can do that.
To take an example that’s similar to what you’re describing, you could cite the following article as it appeared in a fiftieth-anniversary special issue of the Journal of Literary Semantics and then add info about the original publication (in this case, after the DOI):
Dry, Helen Aristar. “The Movement of Narrative Time.” In “50th Anniversary Issue,” edited by Marina Lambrou, Journal of Literary Semantics 51, no. s1 (2022): 19–53. https://doi.org/10.1515/jls-
The wording related to the extra info will depend on the source. In a bibliography or reference list entry, this info follows the period at the end of the main citation; in a note, it can follow a semicolon or start a new sentence (or, if the information is brief, it can go in parentheses).
In an author-date reference list, you could cite both publication dates:
Dry, Helen Aristar. (1983) 2022. “The Movement of Narrative Time.” In “50th Anniversary Issue,” edited by Marina Lambrou, Journal of Literary Semantics 51 (s1): 19–53. https://doi.org/10.1515/jls-
In the text, the author-date citation would be “(Dry [1983] 2022).” For more details and examples, see CMOS 14.16 (on reprint editions) and 14.77 (on journal special issues).