Turabian's Manual for Writers: A Brief Guide

Turabian's A Manual for Writers: A Brief Guide

This sheet is a brief guide to Kate L. Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. It does not substitute for the manual itself. If you are using parenthetical bibliographic references, or need more complete information on any style topic, consult the complete Manual (Call number LB 2369 .T8 Ref. Desk Collection). Some instructors prefer The Chicago Manual of Style (Call number Z 253 .C57 Ref. Desk Collection) since the Turabian guide is a condensed version of this longer guide. Other instructors prefer other publication manuals. We have prepared brief guides to the two other most commonly used manuals, the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (BF 76.7 .P83 Ref. Desk Collection), and the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (LB 2369 .G53 Ref. Desk Collection).

Selected Sample Bibliographic References

All examples below duplicate formats from the sixth edition, 1996

Book, with One Author

Strier, Richard. Love Known: Theology and Experience in George Herbert's
Poetry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

Book, with Two Authors

Lynd, Robert, and Helen Lynd. Middletown: A Study in American Culture.
New York: Harcourt, Brace amd World, 1929.

Anthology, or Compilation (i.e., compiled by an editor)

von Hallberg, Robert, ed. Canons. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

An Essay in an Edited Collection

Bettelheim, Bruno. "The Frame Story of Thousand and One Nights," in The
Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New
York: Vintage Books, 1976.

The Published Proceedings of a Conference

Akazawa, S. "The Scope of the Japanese Information Industry in the 1980s."
      In The Challenge of Information Technology: Proceedings of the Forty-first
      FID (Federation Internationale de Documentation) Congress Held in Hong
      Kong 13-16 September 1982, edited by Kr. Brown, 19-22. Amsterdam,
      New York, and Oxford: North-Holland, 1983.

Article in a Magazine

Weber, Bruce. "The Myth Maker: The Creative Mind of Novelist E. L.
Doctorow." New York Times Magazine, 20 October 1985, 42.

Article in a Journal

Jackson, Richard. "Running down the Up-Escalator: Regional Inequality in
Papua New Guinea." Australian Geographer 14 (May 1979): 175-84.

Article from a Newspaper

Finnonian, Albert. 1990. "The Iron Curtain Goes Up." Wilberton Daily Journal,
7 February, final edition.

Microform Editions

Voelke, William, ed. Masterpieces of Medieval Painting: The Art of
Illumination. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1980. Text-fiche.

Electronic Document

Flax, Rosabel. Guidelines for Teaching Mathematics K-12. Topeka: Kansas
Department of Education, 1979. Database on-line. Available from Dialog,
ERIC, ED 178312.

Thesis or Dissertation

Artioli, Gilberto. "Structural Studies of Water Molecules and Hydrogen
Bonding in Zeolites." Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1985.

Letter (Unpublished)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, Padua, to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Este, 22
      September 1818. Transcript in the hand of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
      Special Collections, Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago,
      Chicago.

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