Resources
- Citefast.com. On it, choose the Chigaco style, which is very similar to Turabian. This is a very useful site that can help you make your citing process faster and more accurate.
- Turabian Textbook. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Ninth Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) Ninth Edition, Kindle. Click here to see it on Amazon.
Sample Forums
- Sample Forum 1Â – Saved as PDF. For forums, it’s recommended to type them in Word and then copy and paste them into the Truthclass forum. This inevitably causes some distortion, which is okay as long as the citations move to the bottom and go below the Bibliography as shown here.
- Sample Forum 1 – How it looks when it is copied and pasted into a Truthclass forum.
- Sample Forum 1 – Microsoft Word document.
- Sample Forum 2 – Citing with square brackets.
- Sample Forum 3 – Parenthetical Citation / Inline citation / Intext Citation in Turabian. See below for the parenthetical citation format.
Key Areas to Remember
- Situations Requiring Citation.
- Citing the Bible in the Footnotes or Endnotes using the Turabian format.
- Parenthetical Citation / Inline citation / Intext Citation in Turabian.
- Numbering and bullets outside of the text.
- Citations and comments (explanatory notes).
- Complex Notes (Combining citations from multiple sources into one). See section 16.3.5 in Turabian 9th Edition.
- Citing Poetry using the Turabian Style.
- Writing Bible Book Names with a Turabian Style Paper.
- Outlines in Turabian Style.
- Run-in Quotations in Turabian Format.
