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Chicago/Turabian

Overview of using Chicago/Turabian to format citations.

Formatting Footnotes

Some general rules for formatting footnotes:

  • Begin your footnote on the page on which you reference it.
  • Footnotes should be indented as you would indent a paragraph.
  • If a footnote must run over onto a new page, break it in midsentence so that readers do not think they have read the entire note.
  • Do not use more than one reference number at the same location (ie, 5, 6). Instead, use one number and place all citations in a single note, separated by semicolons.

Short Form Citations & Ibid.

The first time you cite a source, you will need to include the full citation information. Each subsequent time you cite it in the same paper, however, you will use a short form citation.

Author Only

If you are citing only one work by a particular author, use only their name and the page number.

     4. Michael Davis, Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street (New York: Viking, 2008), 43.

     5. Davis, 102.

Author-Title

If you are citing multiple works by the same author, use the author's name, a shortened (but clear!) version of the title, and the page number.

     12. Davis, Street Gang, 197.

Title Only

If you are citing a work which does not have an author or editor, use a shortened (but clear!) version of the title and the page number.

     18. Driving Home, 280.

Ibid

Ibid, which comes from the Latin ibidem or "in the same place", is used to cite a work whose bibliographic data appears in the note directly preceding it. If the citation information is exactly the same, including the page number, simply use 'Ibid.'. If the citation is the same save for the page number, use 'Ibid., #'.

Note that because Ibid. is an abbreviation, it should be followed by a period.

     23. Davis, Street Gang, 197.

     24. Ibid., 213

     25. Ibid.

Basic Footnote Styles

Book, one author

Author's first and last name, Title of the Book (Location: Publisher,

Year), Page number.

 

 Michael Davis, Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street (New York: 
   
Viking, 2008),
 43.

 

Book, multiple authors

 Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler, The Crimes of Paris: A 

 True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection
 
(New York: Little, 
 
 2009), 104.

 

 Edited book

 Shirley R. Steiberg and Joe L. Kincheloe, eds., 

 
Christotainment: Selling Jesus through Popular Culture

 
(Boulder: Westview, 2009), 98.

Electronic Book

Vincent Sherry,  The Great War and the Language of Modernism (New York: Oxford

University Press
, 2003)  http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebook/ebc/9780195178180 

(accessed June 9, 2009). 

 

chapter or essay in a collection basic entry

Author First Last, "Title of Chapter or Essay," in Title of Book or Anthology, ed. 

Name of editor of book cited. (Location: Publisher, Date), Page numbers of cited essay.

 

chapter in an edited book

Jeffrey Dueck"Religious Pluralism and the Super Best Friends," in
South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today, ed.
 
Robert Ar  (Malden: Blackwell, 2007), 224-235.

 

Basic Journal Article Citation

Basic Footnote Entry

Author's first name Author's last name, "Title of the Article," Name of Publication volume

       (Year): page #. 

 

Basic Bibliography Entry

Author's last name, Author's first name. "Title of the Article." Name of Publication volume

       (Year): pages.

For journal articles from a database, include the stable, persistent, or permanent URL provided, as well as the accession date.

 

Scholarly Journal Article - Print

Footnote:

    Ned Mueller, "The Teddy Bears' Picnic: Four-Year-Old Children's Personal Constructs in Relation

to Behavioural Problems and to Teacher Global Concern,"  Journal of Child Psychology and

Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines 37 (1996): 383.

 

Bibliography:

Mueller, Ned. "The Teddy Bears' Picnic: Four-Year-Old Children's Personal Constructs in Relation to

       Behavioural Problems and to Teacher Global Concern."  Journal of Child Psychology and

       Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines 37 (1996): 381-389. 

 

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