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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:
- 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
- Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 9th ed. byCall Number: Ref BF76.7 .P83 2020
- MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers byCall Number: LB2369 .G53 2009