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Chicago – Turabian Citation Style Guide Information

    The format of a paper in the Chicago Turabian citation style is fairly typical for all academic papers. Usually, this means that the format is 1” margins all the way around (top, bottom, both sides). Additionally, page numbers are placed in the upper right hand corner and are not included on the title page. Also, Chicago – Turabian also typically employs the use of footnotes.

    Current Chicago – Turabian citation styles have shifted to the use of parenthetical citation styles such as MLA but primarily if a professor is asking for Chicago Style or Chicago – Turabian Style then the professor wants footnotes. Footnotes are simple with any modern word processing program such as Microsoft Word . Footnotes generally appear like the sample sentence below. This is called a superscripted number meaning it sits above the word or letter. A subscripted number sits below the word or letter. The footnoted material appears at the bottom of the page and looks like this:

Sample Sentence

Footnotes generally appear like this. 3

Related Footnote:

      3 Michael K. Albertson, Citing in Chicago (New York: Harper, 1990), 91.

    Sometimes professors may ask for endnotes but these are essentially the same thing except instead of appearing at the bottom of each page on which the superscripted number appears, the related reference material appears at the end of the research paper.

    In addition to the footnoted reference material, Chicago – Turabian also uses a bibliography sheet listing all sources referred to in alphabetical order. This is called a “Works Cited” page and is similar to MLA bibliography pages and the “Works Cited” page would include sources similar to the following:

Book, by one author

Clawford, Marilyn. America's Richest People. Baltimore: Bel Air, 1976.

Book, by two or more authors*

Congress, Milton, Jeremy Salts, and Gina Hardingham. A Look at Life in the Deaf Community. Washington, DC: Gallaudet Press, 1994.

Anonymous Author

"The Death of a Spy." People. 6 May 1988, 24-26.

Magazine/Journal Article

Comptohn, Augustine. "Are We So Beautiful?" Beauty Center, 3 Dec. 1995, 45-50.

Electronic Sources

Flaccid, Rosabel. Guidelines for Teaching Math to K-12. Kansas City: Kansas Department of Education, 1989. Article on-line. Available from http://www.education.gov/ks/k12/math/flax010.html.

Personal Interview, in person

Frable, Paul. Interview by author, 22 Apr 1998, Washington, DC. Written notes.

Personal Interview, other

Frable, Paul. Interview by author, 22 Apr 1998, Washington, DC. E-mail.

Videorecordings

Bondetti, Kent. An Incident in the life of a War Widow. PBS Video, Washington, D.C., 1996.

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