Chicago/Turabian Documentation

StyleThe Chicago or Turabian style, sometimes

called documentary note or humanities style, places bibliographic citations at the bottom of a page or at the end of a paper.

What to document

• direct quotations

• paraphrases and summaries

• information and ideas that are not common knowledge or are not available in a standard reference work

• any borrowed material that might appear to be your own if there were no citation.

Overall Layout

• One inch margins top, bottom and sides

• Times New Roman size 12 font

• Double space text of paper

• ½ inch indents for paragraphs, quotes, and hanging indents

• Number the pages - top right corner

General Information about Notes

• Adding a number at the end of a sentence to indicate the presence of a note.

Example: This is an example of how to cite a source.1

• Multiple references to a source. When a source is used a second time, its reference is given in a shorter form.

Example notes

Note that the first source is given a shortened form in note 3, then referred to with "ibid." in notes 4 and 5.

1. Colleen Dunlavy, "Why Did American Businesses Get So Big?" in Major Problems in American Business History, ed. Regina Blaszczyk and Philip Scranton (New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 2006), 260.

2. Steven Nadler, A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011), 8.

3. Dunlavy, 261.

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid., 262.

General Information about Notes

• Location of Notes: Endnotes are listed numerically on a separate page (titled Notes) at the end of your paper.

• Page numbers. simply list the appropriate numbers as the last piece of information in the note.

Formatting the note.

• In the footnote or endnote itself, use the same number, but do not raise or superscript it.

• Put a period and one space after the number.

• The notes themselves are single-spaced, and the first line of each note is indented five spaces from the left margin.

• Double-space between notes.

Bibliography

The bibliography, placed at the end of your paper is an alphabetized list of books, articles, and other sources used in writing the paper.

Formatting Your Bibliography

• Alphabetize by author’s last name.

• Use periods to separate items.

• List entire book, complete chapter or article.

• First line begins at left margin, all other lines are indented 5 spaces (hanging indent).

• If the author’s name is not given simply go on to the next item in the order.

Bibliography

Boyer, Paul S. Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age. 2nd ed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.

Child, Julia, Louisette Bertholle, and Simone Beck. Mastering the Art of French Cooking. New York: Knopf, 1961.

CIA World Factbook. Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 2009.

Congressional Record. 71st Cong., 2d sess., 1930, vol. 72 pt. 10.

Davidson, Richard. Interview by author. Madison, WI, 20 April 2012.

Dunlavy, Colleen. "Why Did American Businesses Get So Big?" In Major Problems in American Business History, edited by Regina Blaszczyk and Philip Scranton. New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 2006. 257-263.

Morris-Jones, John. "Wales." In Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed. New York: Encyclopedia Britannica Company, 1911. 258-270.

. United Nations. "Human Rights." Accessed May 29, 2013. http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/humanrights/.

Format for Book Citation

Author Last, First. Title. Location of Publisher: Publisher, Year of Pub.

Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma. New York: Penguin Group, 2006.

Format for Online Source

Author (and/or owner, sponsor). Document Title. URL.

United States Environmental Protection Agency. Drinking Water Standards. http://water.epa.gov/drink.

Online Citation Makers

• Son of CITATION MACHINE

http://www.citationmachine.net/chicago/cite-a-book

• EasyBIB

http://www.easybib.com/

Bibliography

Chicago Style Guide. Menlo School Library. http://library.menloschool.org/Chicago.

Coats Library. Trinity University http://lib.trinity.edu/citing/Turabian_Notes _citations.pdf

The Writer’s Handbook. The Writing Center. University of Wisconsin. http:writing.wsc.edu/Handbook/QuotingSources.html