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Turabian Quick Guide

Kate L. Turabian’s Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations presents two basic documentation systems, notes-bibliography style (or simply bibliography style) and parenthetical citations–reference list style (or reference list style). These styles are essentially the same as those presented in The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, with slight modifications for the needs of student writers.

In this class, we will use the reference list style (a parenthetical citation [P], followed by a reference list entry [R]).

Online sources that are analogous to print sources (such as articles published in online journals, magazines, or newspapers) should be cited similarly to their print counterparts but with the addition of a URL and an access date. For online or other electronic sources that do not have a direct print counterpart (such as an institutional Web site or a Weblog), give as much information as you can in addition to the URL and access date. The following examples include some of the most common types of electronic sources.

Note the titles are capitalized headline style

Book

One author

P: (Doniger 1999, 65)

R: Doniger, Wendy. 1999. Splitting the difference. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Two authors

P: (Cowlishaw and Dunbar 2000, 104–7)

R: Cowlishaw, Guy, and Robin Dunbar. 2000. Primate conservation biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Four or more authors

P: (Laumann et al. 1994, 262)

R: Laumann, Edward O., John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels. 1994. The social organization of sexuality: Sexual practices in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Editor, translator, or compiler instead of author

P: (Lattimore 1951, 91–92)

R: Lattimore, Richmond, trans. 1951. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Editor, translator, or compiler in addition to author

P: (Bonnefoy 1995, 22)

R: Bonnefoy, Yves. 1995. New and selected poems. Ed. John Naughton and Anthony Rudolf. Chicago: University of

Chicago Press.

Chapter or other part of a book

P: (Wiese 2006, 101–2)

R: Wiese, Andrew. 2006. “The house I live in”: Race, class, and African American suburban dreams in the postwar United States. In The new suburban history, ed. Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue, 99–119. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Book published electronically

P: (Kurland and Lerner 1987)

R: Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. 1987. The founders’ Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/ (accessed June 27, 2006).

Journal article

Article in a print journal

P: (Smith 1998, 639)

R: Smith, John Maynard. 1998. The origin of altruism. Nature 393: 639–40.

Article in an online journal

P: (Hlatky et al. 2002)

R: Hlatky, Mark A., Derek Boothroyd, Eric Vittinghoff, Penny Sharp, and Mary A. Whooley. 2002. Quality-of-life and depressive symptoms in postmenopausal women after receiving hormone therapy: Results from the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS) trial. Journal of the American Medical Association 287, no. 5 (February 6), http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n5/rfull/joc10108.html#aainfo (accessed January 7, 2004).

Newspaper article

P: (Niederkorn 2002)

R: Niederkorn, William S. 2002. A scholar recants on his “Shakespeare” discovery. New York Times, June 20, Arts section, Midwest edition.

Book review

P: (Gorman 2002, 16)

R: Gorman, James. 2002. Endangered species. Review of The last American man, by Elizabeth Gilbert. New York Times Book Review, June 2.

Web site

P: (Evanston Public Library Board of Trustees)

R: Evanston Public Library Board of Trustees. Evanston Public Library strategic plan, 2000–2010: A decade of outreach. Evanston Public Library. http://www.epl.org/library/strategic-plan-00.html (accessed June 1, 2005).

Incorporating Quotations into Your Text

Quotations should be incorporated into sentences of your own. A common way to introduce a quotation is to use the author’s name, in some cases followed by the author’s qualifications (which tell the reader why we should care what the author has to say), accompanied by a verb like argues, claims, notes, etc.

Example: Campbell argues “the quotation goes here” (2010, 15).

Another oft used introductory phrase is “According to” followed by the author’s name.

Example: According to Stevens, “quotation goes here” (2006, 97).

If the quotation consists of four lines or less, integrate it into a sentence of your own and enclose the quotation in quotation marks. If it is five lines of text or longer, set it off as a block quotation, without quotation marks. For this class, do not use block quotations, only brief quotations.