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Turabian Referencing: An Overview
The Turabian Referencing Style is named after its originator, Kate Turabian. This style of referencing is mainly used for term papers, dissertations and theses. It is a subdivision of the University of Chicago's main referencing style.
To cite a book in Turabian, style follow this format:
- Author of text in the format of surname and forename followed by full stop
- Title of work in italics followed by a full stop
- Place of publication followed by a colon
- Publisher followed by a comma
- Date of publication followed by a full stop.
Hence, in Turabian referencing, a book would be cited thus:
Taylor, John. Turabian Referencing. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1980.
To cite a journal in Turabian, style follow this format:
- Author of text in the format of surname and forename followed by full stop
- Name of article in quotation marks followed by a full stop
- Title of journal in italics
- Issue number
- Publication date in brackets followed by a colon
- Page numbers followed by a full stop.
Hence, in Turabian referencing, a journal article would be cited thus:
Taylor, John. Turabian Style. Referencing Today 2 (August 2008): 23-37.
To cite an electronic source in Turabian style, follow this format:
- Author of article in the format of surname and forename followed by full stop
- Name of article in quotation marks followed by a full stop
- Name of website in italics followed by a full stop
- Date of publication on website followed by a full stop
- Date accessed
- Website URL
Hence, in Turabian referencing, an electronic source would be cited thus:
Taylor, John. Using Turabian. Referencing Online. 2008. Accessed 6 August
2008 <http://www.referencingonline>
You may use either footnotes or parenthesis for referencing in-text quotations within Turabian.
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