Brandel Library

HSTY 5210: Christian History I

Citing Your Sources

Formatting your References

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.

Citation Features: ATLA & JSTOR

  • 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:

Citation Styles

Your syllabus specifies that you should use a standard format for your paper. These would include Turabian/Chicago Manual of Style, APA, and 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