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HIST 2630 - Historical Methods - TURNER: Cite Your Sources

This guide contains library and web-based information for students enrolled in Dr. Turner's HIST 2630: Historical Methods course.

What is Chicago style?

Chicago Manual of Style is used in a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Turabian is a simplified version of of the Chicago Style for student papers and theses. 

There are two style options:  

  • Notes-Bibliography (NB) uses footnotes, typically followed by a bibliography. Used often in the humanities, history, and business.

Formatting Your Paper

Your instructor  prefers the Notes-Bibliography (NB) method.

  • Margins should be set at no less than 1”
  • Typeface should be something readable, such as Times New Roman or Courier. Font size should be no less than 10 pt. (preferably, 12 pt.).
  • Text should be consistently double-spaced, except for block quotations, notes, bibliography entries, table titles, and figure captions.


Turabian Recommends......

Class papers will either include a Title Page or include the title on the first page of the text. Use the following guidelines should your instructor or context require a title page:

  • The title should be centered a third of the way down the page.
  • Your name, class information, and the date should follow several lines later.
  • For subtitles, end the title line with a colon and place the subtitle on the line below the title.
  • Double-space each line of the title page

How do I cite my sources in the text of my paper? (In-text citation exampless)

Notes-Bibliography (NB)
In notes-style citations, you signal that you have used a source by placing a superscript number at the end of your sentence. You then cite the source in a correspondingly numbered note:

Naomi Wolf argues that women's magazines have instilled a message that women have to look a certain way to experience happiness.1

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1. Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth (New York: Doubleday, 1991), 61.

How do I cite my sources at the end of my paper? (NB)

In Notes-Style (NB) you list your sources at the end of the page in a Bibliography. Each bibliography entry includes the same information contained in a full note, but in a slightly different form. 

Book with 1 Author
Mukherjee, Ankhi. What Is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. 

Book with 2 Authors
Kinder, Donald R., and Allison Dale-Riddle. The End of Race? Obama, 2008, and Racial Politics in America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012.

Book with No Author
The Book of Common Prayer. New York: Seabury Press, 1979.

Editor or Translator in Place of Author
Heaney, Seamus, trans. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000. 

Parts of Edited Collections
Binkley, Cameron. "Saving Redwoods: Clubwomen and Conservation, 1900-1925." In California Women and Politics: From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression, edited by Robert W. Cherny, 151-74. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011.

Journal Article
Taylor, Quentin. "The Mask of Publius: Alexander Hamilton and the Politics of Expediency." American Political Thought 5, no.1 (Winter 2016):55-79. https://doi.org/10.1086/684559.

Webpage
Google. "Privacy Policy." Privacy & Terms. Last modified March 25, 2016. http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html

Subjects: History