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Return to Library Research Tips page.Turabian Citation Format
The following examples of bibliographic citations may be used as guidelines for term papers. Note that the second and succeeding lines are indented 5 spaces, the three main divisions -- author, title and publishing data -- are separated by periods, single spacing is used within a citation, and double spacing between citations. Examples are based upon the Student's Guide for Writing College Papers by Kate Turabian, which should be consulted for types of citations not given in this brief guide, correct spacing, and typing instructions.
BOOK: one author
Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of a Criticism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1957.
BOOK: two or three authors
Graves, Robert, and Alan Hodge. The Long Week End: a Social History of Great Britain,
1918-1939. New York: Macmillan, 1941.
BOOK: editor or compiler as author
Miller, Jonathan, ed. Freud: the Man, His World, His Influence. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.
BOOK: society, association, institution as author
Antioch College. Educating for Democracy: a symposium. Yellow Springs, OH: Antioch Press,
1937.
BOOK: more than one edition
Keynes, Sir Geoffrey Langdon. Blake Studies: Essays on His Life and Work. 2nd ed. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1971.
CHAPTER ESSAY: one author in a book edited by another
Callis, H.G. "Mankind and World Order in Chinese History." In History and the Idea of Mankind.
Edited by W. W. Wager. Albuquerque, NM: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1971.
ENCYCLOPEDIA: article with an author
Encyclopedia Britannica. 11th ed. (1910-11), s.v. "Blake, William." By J.W. Comyns-Carr.
ENCYCLOPEDIA: article without an author
Collier's Encyclopedia. 1968, XVI, 441. "Maronites."
JOURNAL OR MAGAZINE: article with author
Morrissey, L.F. "Anonymous Ballad Opera." Notes and Queries, 19 (Winter, 1972): 223-5.
JOURNAL OR MAGAZINE: article with no author
"Politics and Pollution." Commonweal, 26 (Nov. 1971): 195.
BOOK REVIEW
Hicks, Granville. "Voyage of Life", review of Ship of Fools, by Katherine Anne Porter. Saturday
Review, (March 31, 1962): 10.
GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. National Center for Educational Statistics.
Education Directory, 1972-73: Public School Systems, by Jeffrey N. Williams and Sallie L.
Warf. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1973.
NEWSPAPERS
"Amazing Amazon Region." New York Times, 12 January 1969, sec 4, p.E11.
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