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Turabian Style Guide: Turabian (& Chicago)

created for Social Studies courses, Spring 2015 updated for Spring 2017

Chicago Manual of Style

Turabian Style Guide Online Assistance

Who & Why?

Who uses Turabian Style?

  • " students & researchers"

University of Chicago Press, "Home," Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations,http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/turabian/manual/index.html, (accessed 29 August 2016).

What is Turabian Style?

  • a modified version of The Chicago Manual of Style that offers writers two documentation systems:
    • notes-bibliography style -- mainly used in literature, history, and the arts; footnotes/endnotes and bibliography.
    • parenthetical citations–reference list style -- mainly used with the physical, natural, and social sciences; parenthetical citations in text and reference list.

University of Chicago Press, "Turabian Quick Guide," Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/turabian/turabian_citationguide.html, (accessed 29 August 2016).