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Turabian Style - Examples

All Types of Electronic Resources, and
Books, Government Publications,
Microfiche/Microfilm Resources, Newspapers,
Oral Histories/Interviews, Print Journals,
Theses & Dissertations, and Videos

 

For more information, see the 6th edition of Kate Turabian's Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations and the 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, which are available at the Reference desk in the McNeese Library.  Chicago is used here as a supplement when Turabian does not have an example of a particular kind of citation.  Note that the examples on this webpage are examples of citations for a Works Cited / Bibliography. 

HYPERLINKED TABLE OF CONTENTS
(click on each
part to go directly to the examples on this page):

ALL TYPES OF ELECTRONIC RESOURCES:
Article from a Journal in a Library Database
Book Review from a Journal in a Library Database
E-Book
Internet Site
Journal Article on the Internet
U.S. Supreme Court Decision on the Internet
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents

BOOKS:
Book in a Series
Book with One Author
Book with Two Authors
Chapter or Essay in a Multivolume Book
Chapter or Essay in a Multivolume Book in a Series (for
example, in the La. Purchase Bicentennial Series in La. History)
Chapter or Essay in a One-Volume Book
Edition Other than the First
Paperback Edition
Reprint Edition
Translated Work
A Volume in a Multivolume Book by One Author

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT:
Congressional Hearing
Executive Department or Agency's Document
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Treaties
U.S. Statutes and U.S. Code

U.S. Supreme Court Decision

MICROFICHE/MICROFILM

NEWSPAPERS:
Microfilm Edition
Newspaper Article in a Library Database
Newspaper Article on a Newspaper's Website
Newspaper Article with No Author Given
Print Edition

ORAL HISTORIES/INTERVIEWS:
Published Oral Histories/Interviews
Unpublished Interview by the Writer of the Paper
Unpublished Oral Histories/Interviews

PRINT JOURNALS:
Article in a Print Journal
Book Review in a Print Journal

THESES & DISSERTATIONS

VIDEOS

                   
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All Types of Electronic Resources:

Article from a Journal in a Library Database
     (p.754, Chicago):
"...include the URL of the main entrance of the service...note that main entrance and other directory-level URLs end with a slash."

     Example from "JSTOR" database:
     Cornell, Svante E. "International Reactions to Massive
          Human Rights Violations: The Case of Chechnya."
          Europe-Asia Studies 51, no. 1 (1999): 85-100.
          http://www.jstor.org/.

     Example from "Academic Search Premier" database:
     Okey, Robin. "Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian? Language and
          Nationality in the Lands of Former Yugoslavia." East
          European Quarterly
38, no. 4 (2004): 419-41.
          http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web
          &defaultdb=aph/.   
         
                   
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Book Review from a Journal in a Library Database
     (p. 205, Turabian, combined with p. 754, Chicago):
     Form:
     Reviewer's Name. Review of Title of Book, by Author's
          Name. Journal Name Volume, Issue Number (Date of
          Publication): Page Numbers. General URL for
          database/.
                
     Example from "Academic Search Premier" database:
     Benite, Zvi Ben-Dor. Review of Tibetan Buddhists in the
          Making of Modern China
, by Gray Tuttle. American
          Historical Review
111, no. 1 (2006): 132-33. 
          http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web
          &defaultdb=aph/.
                   
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E-Book (p. 159, Turabian):

E-books at McNeese Library are retrieved with searches in the library's online catalog. E-books have "[electronic resource]" after the book's title and "available at Frazar Memorial Library in NLIB" under the citation.  "NLIB" refers to "NetLibrary," which is the source of the library's e-book collection. Click on the URL to the right of the book's citation to see the e-book.  The first time you remotely access NetLibrary e-books, you will "Create a Free Account" on the NetLibrary screen.

     E-book in the library's NetLibrary e-book collection:
     Brasseaux, Carl A. Acadian to Cajun: Transformation
          of a People, 1803-1877
[book on-line] (Jackson:
          University Press of Mississippi, 1992, accessed 23
          June 2006); available from www.netlibrary.com/.
         
     E-book on a website:
     Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. Translated by H. Rackham
          [book on-line] (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
          Press, 1934, accessed 17 July 2006); available from
          http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=
          Aristot.+Nic.+Eth.+1094a+1; Internet.

                   
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Internet Site (pp. 714-15, Chicago):
"For original content from online sources other than periodicals, include as much of the following as can be determined: author of the content, title of the page, title or owner of the site, URL." (p. 714).
    
     Avalon Project at Yale Law School. "Camp David Accords:
          September 17, 1978." Lillian Goldman Law Library.
          http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/
          campdav.htm.

Journal Article on the Internet (pp. 696-97, Chicago):
     Friedman, Michael J. "Congress, the President, and the
          Battle of Ideas: Vietnam Policy, 1965-1969." Essays
          in History
41 (1999), http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
          journals/EH/EH41/Friedman41.html.

                   
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U.S. Supreme Court Decision on the Internet (p. 155,
     Turabian, combined with pp. 714-715, Chicago):

Note- The following example is from FindLaw's U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, a website which has the full text of U.S. Supreme Court decisions from 1893 to the present:

     FindLaw: Supreme Court Opinions. "Roe v. Wade,
          410 U.S. 113." FindLaw. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.
          com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113.

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
     (pp. 752-3, Chicago):

     Office of the Federal Register. National Archives and
          Records Administration. "Statement on Signing the
          Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq
          Resolution of 2002." http://www.access.gpo.gov/
          nara/nara003.html.

Note- Many government publications are online and are accessible through a search in the library's online catalog. The document in the above example was found with this search: weekly compilation of presidential documents.  Click on the URL in the search results to access the website.  In the search box type: iraq.  In the drop-down menu select: 2002.

                    
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Books:

Book in a Series (pp. 192-93, Turabian):
     Form:
     Author's Name. Title of Book. Name of Series. Place of
          Publication: Publisher, Date of Publication.

     Example:
     Rucker, Walter C. The River Flows On: Black Resistance,
          Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America.
         
Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World. Baton
          Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.

     Example with a Series Editor Given:
     Issawi, Charles. The Economic History of Turkey,
          1800-1914.
Publications of the Center for Middle
          Eastern Studies, ed. Richard L. Chambers, no. 13.
          Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

                   
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Book with One Author (p. 187, Turabian):
     Girard, Philippe R. Paradise Lost: Haiti's Tumultuous
          Journey From Pearl of the Caribbean to Third World
          Hot Spot.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Book with Two Authors (p. 188, Turabian):
     Cannon, John Ashton, and Ralph Griffiths. The Oxford
          Illustrated History of the British Monarchy
. New York:
          Oxford University Press, 1988.

Chapter or Essay in a Multivolume Book
     (pp. 191-92, & 196, Turabian; several examples are
     combined):
     Gabin, Nancy F. "Women and Work." In Encyclopedia of
          American Social History
, ed. Mary Kupiec Cayton,
          Elliott J. Gorn, and Peter W. Williams, Vol. 2,
          1541-1555. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993.

                   
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Chapter or Essay in a Multivolume Book in a Series
(for example, a chapter in the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History)

    
(pp. 191-93, & 196, Turabian; several examples are
     combined):
     Woods, Patricia D. "The French and the Natchez Indians in
          Louisiana: 1700-1731." In The French Experience in
          Louisiana
, ed. Glenn R. Conrad. Louisiana Purchase
          Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History, Vol. 1,
          278-95. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies,
          University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1995.

Chapter or Essay in a One-Volume Book (p. 196,
     Turabian):
     Beech, Mary Higdon. "The Domestic Realm in the Lives of
          Hindu Women in Calcutta." In Separate Worlds:
          Studies of purdah in South Asia
, ed. Hanna Papnanek
          and Gail Minault, 110-38. Delhi: Chanakya, 1982.

                   
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Edition Other than the First (p. 193, Turabian):
     Lovejoy, Paul E. Transformations in Slavery: A History of
          Slavery in Africa
, 2d ed. African Studies Series.
          Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Paperback Edition (p. 194, Turabian):
"Entries for paperback reprints should also give original publication data as well as reprint data."

     Kennan, George F. American Diplomacy, 1900-1950.
          Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951; Phoenix
          Books, 1970.

Reprint Edition (pp. 193-94, Turabian):
     Form:
     Author's Name. Title of the Book. Original Place of
          Publication: Publisher, Date Originally Published.
          Reprint, Reprint's Place of Publication: Publisher,
          Date of Reprint's Publication.

     Example:
     Lincoln, W. Bruce. Nicholas I, Emperor and Autocrat of
          All the Russians
. Bloomington: Indiana University
          Press, 1978. Reprint, DeKalb: Northern Illinois
          University Press, 1989.

                   
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Translated Work (pp. 190-91, Turabian):
     Meier, Christian. Caesar. Translated by David McLintock.
          New York: Basic Books, 1995.

A Volume in a Multivolume Book by One Author (p. 192,
     Turabian):
     Churchill, Winston. A History of the English-Speaking
          Peoples
. Vol. 2, The New World. New York: Dodd,
          Mead, 1956-58.

Government Publications in Print:

Congressional Hearing (pp. 219 & 207, Turabian):
     Congressional Hearing on microfiche:
     U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services.
          Afghanistan: Security and Reconstruction: Hearing
          Before the Committee on Armed Services
. 108th
          Cong., 2d sess., 29 April 2004. Text-fiche.
    
                    
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Executive Department or Agency's Document
     (pp. 224-25, & 207 Turabian):
"When authors of these publications are identified, they should be included in the citations along with the issuing body. The citation usually begins with the name of the issuing body..." (p. 224)

    
Central Intelligence Agency. Center for the Study of
          Intelligence. The Final Months of the War with Japan:
          Signals Intelligence, U.S. Invasion Planning, and the
          A-bomb Decision,
by Douglas J. MacEachin.
           Washington, D.C., 1998. Text-fiche.

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
     (p. 222, Turabian):
    
Public Papers of President John F. Kennedy, for example:
    
U.S. President. Public Papers of the Presidents of the
          United States.
Washington, D.C.: Office of the
          Federal Register
, National Archives and Records
          Service, 1961. John F. Kennedy, 1961.

                   
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Treaties (pp. 225-26, Turabian):
     U.S. "Naval Armament Limitation Treaty," 26 February
          1922. Statutes at Large (December 1923-March
           1925), vol. 43, pt. 2.

U.S. Statutes and U.S. Code (pp. 220-21, Turabian):
    
     United States Statutes at Large
citation:
     Administrative Procedure Act. Statutes at Large 60
          (1946).

"Citations to the Code are always to section number, not page." (p. 221)

     United States Code citation:
     Declaratory Judgment Act. U.S. Code. Vol. 28, secs.
          2201-2 (1952).

U.S. Supreme Court Decision (p. 155, Turabian):

     Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973).

                   
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Microfiche/Microfilm: (p. 207, Turabian):

     Microfiche:
     Williamson, Frederick W., and Lillian Herron Williamson.
          Northeast Louisiana: A Narrative History of the
          Ouachita River Valley and the Concordia Country.
         
Monroe: Historical Record Association, 1939.
          Text-fiche.

     See also Executive Department or Agency's Document
     See also Congressional Hearing
         
     Microfilm:
     The Native Americans Reference Collection: Documents
          Collected by the Office of Indian Affairs.
United
          States Department of the Interior Library; Bethesda:
          University Publications of America, 2000. Text-film.

     See also Newspapers: Microfilm Edition

                 
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Newspapers:

Turabian and Chicago both state that newspapers are usually cited in notes rather than in bibliographies, but Chicago does provide the following forms for citing newspapers in bibliographies:

Microfilm Edition (p. 701, Chicago, combined with p. 207,
     Turabian):
     Wood, Nicholas. "Ambitious Experiment Leads Kosovo to
          a Crossroads." New York Times, October 3, 2005,
          late edition, sec. A. Text-film.

Newspaper Article in a Library Database (p. 754,
     Chicago):
Note- "Include the URL of the main entrance of the [database]..." (p. 754)

     Polgreen, Lydia. "In Congo, Hunger and Disease Erode
          Democracy." New York Times, June 23, 2006, late
          edition. http://www.lexis-nexis.com/.

Newspaper Article on a Newspaper's Website (pp.
     702-3, Chicago):
     Semple, Kirk. "Over 3,000 Iraqi Civilians Killed in June,
          U.N. Reports." New York Times, July 18, 2006.
          http://www.nytimes.com/.

Newspaper Article with No Author Given (p. 701,
     Chicago):
     "the name of the newspaper [is] in place of the author."

Print Edition (p. 701, Chicago):
     Mouawad, Jad, and Steven Erlanger. "Israeli Planes Batter
          Lebanon Again, Killing 30 People." New York Times,
          July 18, 2006, late edition, sec. 1.

                   
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Oral Histories/Interviews:

Published Oral Histories/Interviews
     Book (p. 187, Turabian):
     Santoli, Al, ed. Everything We Had: An Oral History of the
          Vietnam War by Thirty-Three American Soldiers Who
          Fought It.
New York: Random House, 1981.

     E-Book: (p. 159, Turabian):
     Nicolay, John G. An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John
          G. Nicolay's Interviews and Essays
[book on-line]
          (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press,
          1996, accessed 15 July 2006); available from
          www.netlibrary.com/.
       
     Journal Article (p. 206, Turabian):
     Precht, Henry. "The Iranian Revolution: An Oral History
          with Henry Precht, Then State Department Desk
          Officer." Interview by Charles Stuart Kennedy. Middle
          East Journal
58, no. 1 (2004): 9-31.

     Video (p. 211, Turabian):
     Fruge, Ed. Hurricane Rita: Southwest Louisiana's Story.
          Produced by KPLC Television in association with
          CHRISTUS St. Patrick Hospital. 120 min. KPLC/
          Raycom Media, 2006. Videodiscs.

Unpublished Interview by the Writer of the Paper
      (pp. 206-207, Turabian):
     Roach, Randy, mayor of Lake Charles. Interview by
          author, 22 June 2006, Lake Charles. Tape recording.

Unpublished Oral Histories/Interviews

     In the Library's Oral History Collection (p. 206, Turabian):
     Fox, George Thomas. Interview by Terry L. Beckenbaugh,
          3 April 2003. Number 168, videocassette and
          transcript. Veterans History Project Collection,
          Archives and Special Collections Department,
          McNeese State University Library, Lake Charles, La.

     On an Internet Site (pp. 714-15, Chicago):
     Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive.
          "Franka Charlupski." University of Michigan-Dearborn.
          http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/charlupski.
         
                             
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Print Journals:

Article in a Print Journal (pp. 202-203, Turabian):
"...the month or season can generally be omitted if an issue number is given." (p. 143, Turabian)

     With an issue number following the volume number:
     Vogel, Robert C. "Jean Laffite, the Baratarians, and the
          Battle of New Orleans: A Reappraisal." Louisiana
          History
41, no. 3 (2000): 261-76.

     With no issue number (so the month is given):
     Jackson, Richard. "Running down the Up-Escalator:
          Regional Inequality in Papua New Guinea." Australian
          Geographer
14 (May 1979): 175-84.

                   
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Book Review in a Print Journal (p. 205, Turabian):
     Form:
     Reviewer's Name. Review of Title of Book, by Author's
          Name. Journal Name Volume, Issue Number (Date of
          Publication): Page Numbers.

     Example:
     Sanson, Jerry P. Review of A Fierce and Fractious
          Frontier: The Curious Development of Louisiana's
          Florida Parishes, 1699-2000
, by Samuel C. Hyde, Jr.,
          ed. Louisiana History 46, no. 4 (2005): 495-97.

                  
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Theses & Dissertations
(p. 209, Turabian):

   
 Thesis:
     DeLatte, Carolyn E. "Reconstruction in St. Landry through
          1868." Master's thesis, McNeese State University,
          1972.

     Dissertation:
     Giardina, Carol. "The Making of the Women's Movement,
          1953-1970." Ph.D. diss., City University of New York,
          2004.


Videos (p. 211, Turabian):

     Grossman, Roberta. 500 Nations. Produced and directed
          by Jack Leustig. 372 min. Warner Home Video, 2004.
          Videodiscs.
           
                   
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