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Chicago/Turabian Style General Guidelines
    by Kate L. Turabian. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 6th Ed.

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The following guidelines are based on information found in A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 6th Ed. by Kate L. Turabian and from The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th Ed. Both books contain the same basic referencing systems.

1. Paper Format
2. Citations

3. Footnotes/Endnotes
4. Format - Written Sources
5. Format - Other Sources
6. Format for References

Paper Format

• Always check with your instructor to see if he or she has any different requirements or specifications for your paper.

• Your paper begins with a title page. On the title page, centered on the paper, you include the name of your university, the full title of your paper, the course/class information, your name and date, and any other information that your professor may require.

• Page numbers go in the upper right corner, starting on the first page after the title page with page 2. The title page should not have any page number on it.

• Margins are 1" on all sides.
  Double space the entire paper, except block quotations, which are single spaced and indented four spaces from the left margin.

• Single space the footnotes, endnotes, and the references, with a blank line between entries.

Citations

Chicago/Turabian style papers use one of two forms of citations. The traditional Chicago style paper uses footnotes or endnotes with a bibliography. The newer Chicago/Turabian style paper use parenthetical notations with a Works Cited page at the end of the paper. However, here at Gallaudet, teachers, especially history teachers, prefer the footnotes method, not the parenthetical notation method. You should check with your teacher to find out which citation style is required.

Footnotes/Endnotes
  
Footnotes are the reference information that appears at the bottom of the page. Endnotes are the reference information on a separate page at the end of the body of text, just before the bibliography page. To use footnotes or endnotes, you place a superscripted number (a half space above the line, like this²) after the cited material. The superscripted number refers the reader to the matching number in the footnotes or endnotes where the full citation can be found. Both kinds of notes include complete bibliographic information when cited for the first time.

Format for footnotes or endnotes: (Footnotes and endnotes are formatted the same way).

• The first line of the note must be indented 5 spaces (or by a tab).
• You provide the full bibliographic information (only for the first time for that particular reference).
• Follow this standard format for most written sources:
  • First and Last name, "Article Title," Title of Book (City published: Publisher, Year published), page.
• Article titles from a magazine or newspaper should be in quotation marks
• Titles of books, journals, magazines, and newspapers should be in italics.
• You do not need to use a "p" or "pp" with page numbers, unless not using them will cause confusion.

For example, in the text of your paper, you write like this.

The first time you refer to a source, give the complete information as we did in the above example. However, for the second and next reference to the same source (with the same page number) you use Ibid. If the reference is the same, but the page is not, add the page number, like this: Ibid., 44.

For subsequent reference to the same source, but later in the paper, you use an abbreviated version of the reference, using the author's last name, a shortened version of the title, and the page number. For example: Richmond, DPN, 90.

Note: If you cannot use the superscript feature on your typewriter or computer, you can use standard line spacing.

Format for most written sources

Standard format for most written sources, for the first reference in the footnotes/endnotes is:

• First name and last name, "Article Title," Title of Book (City published: Publisher, Year published), page.

Format for other types of sources

References
  
The reference (bibliography) page is the alphabetized list of sources that you used to write your paper. It should be placed at the end of your paper, on a separate page. It should be titled "Bibliography," "References," or "Works Cited" depending on your teacher's specifications. Your references and your footnotes or endnotes will contain the same information, but the notes are numbered in the order they appear in your paper, while the references should be alphabetized by author's last name. Each entry will use a hanging indent (meaning the first line of the entry is at the margin, and the next line(s) is indented five spaces). Your word processing software should be able to provide the hanging indent feature.

The basic format for your reference entries is:

• Last Name, First Name. "Article." Book Title. City published: Publisher, Year published.

*If a book has two or more authors, the subsequent authors will be listed by first name and last name, each name separated by a comma

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