What's the difference between Chicago Style and Turabian?
- The Chicago Manual of Style is often used in the social sciences and humanities. In addition to citation styles, there is also useful information on grammar and writing style, so it can be useful to actually look at the print manual.
- Turabian refers to A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, and is a simplified version of the Chicago Manual of Style used by researchers everywhere. If your instructor does not specify a style guide, this is the one we recommend that you use.
Notes-Bibliography vs. Author-Date
- Notes-Bibliography style in Chicago is a style characterized by footnotes at the bottom of each page, and superscript numbers taking the place of in-text citation. The sources are reproduced in a bibliography at the end of the paper. Footnotes are intended to be read while the reader is going through the text, and the bibliography is used as a repository of potentially useful sources.
- Author-Date style in Chicago is very similar to APA style. It uses in text citations at the end of sentences in parenthesis, which are intended to refer the reader to the source on the references page.
Chicago Manual of Style
- Chicago Manual of Style, from Purdue UniversityThis guide to Chicago Style from the OWL at Purdue explains the Notes Bibliography style for Chicago and shows examples for formatting a research paper and its citations. It also has a brief section on Author Date style.
- Official CMS Style Quick GuideThe official website of the Chicago manual of style is the best place to look for information on Author Date style of Chicago citation.
Turabian Style
- Turabian Quick GuideIf you can't get a copy of the book, this brief guide from the publisher's website gives you the basics of the style for both Notes Bibliography and Author Date.
Redacted Bibliography Exercise
You are historians investigating the history of a politician who came to power in the far past time of 2024. Before they were elected to congress, they served as a legislative assistant, writing papers to support the positions their employer was taking. You have found one such paper, but it has been heavily redacted. Your goal here is to reconstruct all 11 footnotes that the writer used so you can determine where they were getting their information, and to do so before the other teams so you can get a leg up on getting your findings published.
- Find and rewrite all 11 footnotes to be complete and un-redacted
- Record them in a shared google doc or using the completion form below
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowScholarly, multidisciplinary database containing more than 6,100 full-text journals, and indexing/abstracts for more than 10,100 journals.
- Redacted Bibliography Completion FormUse this link to record your reconstructed footnotes, if you don't want to create a shared google document.
