1. General Turabian Guidelines

2. This slide show will provide you with the a guide to paper formatting procedures for this class.
We will be using Chicago- Turabian in this class. It is commonly used in natural and social sciences.

3. General Guidelines Format 1 inch margins / 12 pt. Times New Roman font
Double Spaced (block quotes are single spaced)
Page Numbers
No page number on title page
Bottom right corner of each page

4. Turabian Pagination

5. Turabian Pagination

6. Turabian Pagination

7. Block Quotes 5 or more lines Single spaced Indented No quotation marks
Footnote at end

8. General Turabian Guidelines
Your paper should have three major sections.
Title Page
Main Body
Bibliography
Two formats: Class Paper & Dissertation
NO Page Number on title page
Note: Your professor may have unique format requirements.

9. Turabian Sample Title Page Class Paper
Turabian Sample Title Page Dissertation

10. General Turabian Guidelines
Main Body
NO strict format for headings and subheadings
Most commonly uses footnotes
First citation includes full bibliographical information
Short forms used thereafter
Consecutive citations use Ibid.
Footnotes
Refers to the original source (quote or paraphrase)
Further Explanation of the text
Reference to further information

11. Inserting Footnotes

12. General Turabian Guidelines
Footnotes, cont.
First Reference
Cite all information
First name first
Follow style format
Further References
Author’s last name (comma)
Short version of the title (comma)
Page number (period)

13. General Turabian Guidelines
Footnotes, cont.
Consecutive citing of the same source
Ibid. (comma)
Page number (if different page)
Avoid using if referring to a note on a different page of your text.
Format
Use 10 or 12 point font
Footnote is single spaced
First line is indented
Space between each footnote
Each footnote ends with a period

14. Turabian Footnotes Book (single author or editor)
1. Malcolm Gladwell, ed., The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Boston: Little, Brown, 2000), 64–65.
Book (two or three authors)
1. Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin, Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011), 52.
Book (four or more authors)
1. Jay M. Bernstein et al., Art and Aesthetics after Adorno (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), 276.

15. Turabian Footnotes Book (author plus editor or translator)
1. Jane Austen, Persuasion: An Annotated Edition, ed. Robert Morrison (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011), 311–12.
Book (edition number)
1. John Van Maanen, Talkes of the Filed: On Writing Ethnograpy, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Proess, 2011), 84.
Book (single chapter in an edited book)
1. Ángeles Ramírez, “Muslim Women in the Spanish Press: The Persistence of Subaltern Images,” in Muslim Women in War and Crisis: Representation and Reality, ed. Faegheh Shirazi (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010), 231.

16. Turabian Footnotes Book (electronic)
1. Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (New York: Vintage, 2010), 183–84, Kindle.
2. Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, eds., The Founders’ Constitution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), chap. 10, doc. 19, accessed October 15, 2011,
3. Joseph P. Quinlan, The Last Economic Superpower: The Retreat of Globalization, the End of American Dominance, and What We Can Do about It (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010), 211, accessed December 8, 2012, ProQuest Ebrary.

17. Turabian Footnotes Journal Article (print) Journal Article (online)
1. Alexandra Bogren, “Gender and Alcohol: The Swedish Press Debate,” Journal of Gender Studies 20, no. 2 (June 2011): 156.
Journal Article (online)
1. Campbell Brown, “Consequentialize This,” Ethics 121, no. 4 (July 2011): 752, accessed December 1, 2012,
2. Anastacia Kurylo, “Linsanity: The Construction of (Asian) Identity in an Online New York Knicks Basketball Forum,” China Media Research 8, no. 4 (October 2012): 16, accessed March 9, 2013, Academic OneFile.

18. Turabian Footnotes Website Biblical References
1. Susannah Brooks, “Longtime Library Director Reflects on a Career at the Crossroads,” University of Wisconsin-Madison News, September 1, 2011, accessed May 14, 2012,
2. “Toy Safety,” McDonald’s Canada, accessed November 30, 2011,
Biblical References
Only included in footnotes
Use an abbreviated form of the book
List which version in the first citation

19. General Turabian Guidelines
Bibliography
“Bibliography” centered at the top of the page
Uses the same information as initial footnotes, yet with minute differences.
Alphabetical order by last name
Only the first author’s name is reversed
Hanging indent
Multiple works by the same author
Author’s name on first
A 3-em dash replaces name thereafter (———)

20. Turabian Bibliography
Rules of Thumb
Reverse the first name only.
Change commas to periods between items.
Remove parentheses
Remove specific page numbers.