Citation Help: Turabian

This page contains resources you can use to learn how to cite in Turabian style, which is almost the same as Chicago style but with some changes to meet the needs of student writers.  It has two documentation styles:  Bibliography style for literature, history, and the arts, and author-date style for the physcial, natural, and social sciences.  Below there is a link to the online guide, which offers rules and examples for how to create citations in Turabian style.

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These examples are for Notes-Bibliography Style.  For more examples, as well as the Author-Date style, visit the Turabian Citation Guide website

Book Example

Format:  Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of publication: Publisher, Year of publication.

Ex. Faulkner, William. Absalom, Absalom!. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.

Journal Article Example

Format:  Lastname, Firstname.  "Title of Article." Title of Journal VolumeNumber, no. IssueNumber (Year): Page-Range.

Ex. MacDonald, Susan Peck. “The Erasure of Language.” College Composition and Communication 58, no. 4 (2007): 585-625.

Newpaper Example (with two authors)

Format:  Lastname, Firstname and Firstname Lastname.  "Title of Article." Title of Newspaper, Month Date, Year. Accessed Month Date, Year. url.

Ex. Bumiller, Elisabeth, and Thom Shanker. “Pentagon Lifts Ban on Women in Combat.” New York Times, January 23, 2013. Accessed January 24, 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/us/pentagon-says-it-is-lifting-ban-on-women-in-combat.html.

Website Example

Format: Author/Creator.  "Title of Website." Last Modified Month Date, Year.  Accessed Month Date, Year. url.

Ex. Google. “Google Privacy Policy.” Last modified March 11, 2009. Accessed January 3, 2013.  http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html.