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Citation rules/Internet and media/18.8 Audio Recordings and Streaming

Add the release date to the parenthetical

Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts22nd edition only

An episodic recording's access-medium parenthetical carries the release date beside the medium, as a broadcast's does: "(CD, Aug. 26, 2002)", not "(CD)".1

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  1. 1R. 18.8.1(c) Episodic recordings.
  2. 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.
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More in Internet and media

  1. Abbreviate the affiliation
  2. Abbreviate the author's name
  3. Abbreviate the recording label's name
  4. Abbreviate the site's name
  5. Add the locating parenthetical
  6. Add the release date to the parenthetical
  7. Italicize the image's title
  8. Move the access medium before the time marker
  9. Move the access medium into the parenthetical

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