MUS 2500: Introduction to Theology through Congregational Song (Bjorlin): Citing Your Sources

• ATLA Religion Database,
  • Click on a title from the results list and print, email, save, and cite icons will appear on the right side of the screen.
  • When you click on the yellow "cite" icon, the citation of the article will appear in several bibliographic formats and you may select the style that you are using.

• JSTOR
  • icons for the following tasks will appear on the right side of the item information:
    

Turabian (and its parent, the Chicago Manual of Style) documentation format has a consistent rationale:

• Each note (whether footnotes or endnotes) is a single sentence.
  • The only period is at the end of the citation.
  • Only commas and semi-colons, and colons occur within the citation.
  • Series and publishing information is included in a parenthesis at the end of the note, before the period.
• Book:
  • Author’s first name, last name, Title: subtitle (Place of publication: Publisher, date), page(s).
• Journal article:
  • Author’s first name, last name, “Article title,” Journal Title vol. no., issue no. (date [including month or season, if present]): page or page-page, url [if accessed online].
• Edited book:
  • Editor’s first name, last name, ed., Title: subtitle (Series; Place of publication: Publisher, date).
• Edited book [multiple editors]:
  • first name, last name; first name, last name; first name, last name, eds., Title: subtitle (Series; Place of publication: Publisher, date).
• Article in book:
  • Name, “Article title” in Book Title: subtitle, ed. Name(s), page-page (Series; Place of publication: Publisher, date).

Bibliography citations, on the other hand, are not a sentence. Periods occur after each basic unit:

• Book:
  • Author’s last name, first name. Title. Series. Place of publication: Publisher, date.
• Journal article:
  • Author’s last name, first name. “Title.” Journal title vol. no., issue no. (Date [including month or season, if present]): page-page. url [if accessed online].
• Edited book:
  • Editor’s last name, first name, ed., Title: subtitle. Series. Place of publication: Publisher, date.
• Edited book [multiple editors]:
  • Last name, First name; First name, Last name; First name, Last name, eds. Title: Subtitle. Series. Place of publication: Publisher, date.
• Article in book:
  • Last name, first name. “Article title.” In Book Title: Subtitle, ed. first name, last name(s), page-page. Series. Place of publication: Publisher, date.

Journal Article

• Bibliography

Veeneman, Mary M. "Evangelical Ecumenism: The Quest for an Evangelical Tradition." Evangelical Journal 26, no. 2 (September 1, 2008): 56-64.

• Endnote or Footnote

1. Mary M. Veeneman, "Evangelical Ecumenism: The Quest for an Evangelical Tradition," Evangelical Journal 26, no. 2 (September 1, 2008): 58. 

Book

• Bibliography

Veeneman, Mary M. Introducing Theological Method: A Survey of Contemporary Theologians and Approaches. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2017.

• Endnote or Footnote

2. Mary M. Veeneman, Introducing Theological Method: A Survery of Conemporary Theologians and Approaches (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2017), 172.

Edited Book

• Bibliography

Green, Joel B., gen. ed. Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics. Grand Rapids, MI.: Baker Academic, 2011.

• Endnote or Footnote

3. Joel B. Green, gen. ed., Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2011).

Article in Edited Book

• Bibliography

Veeneman, Mary M. "Death and Dying." In Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics, ed. Joel B. Green, 206-209. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2011.

• Endnote or Footnote

4. Mary M. Veeneman, "Death and Dying" in Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics, ed. Joel B. Green, 206-209 (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2011).

More Chicago Style Help.

Your syllabus specifies that you should use Turabian/Chicago Manual of Style, if you are a BTS major, or, for non-BTS majors, Turabian/Chicago Manual of Style or some standard format for your paper, such as APA or MLA.

Purdue University has a helpful website for all of the standard citation styles:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Brandel Library has an online edition of the Chicago Manual of Style:

http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/contents.html

E-Turabian will format your citation into either bibliography or footnote style:

http://www.eturabian.com/turabian/index.html