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Style Manuals

Chicago/Turabian Citation Resources

General Resources
Citing Sources

What's the difference?

"Turabian is a kind of citation involving either footnotes or endnotes. For the most part, it is a condensed version of the Chicago stylebook written especially for student writers." Hollins University Writing Center

Chicago Style Q&A
Easy-to-browse list of Q& As from the Chicago Manual of Style website.
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL): General Format for Chicago Style
Guidelines for paper sections, headers, and other format details using the Chicago Manual of Style.
Turabian Formatting - Quick Guide
Concise directions from Liberty University's Writing Program.

Chicago/Turabian Documentation from The Writing Center of UW-Madison
Utilize the menu on the right to select source type.
Ohio State Univesity: Turabian Citation Style Guide
Examples of citations in notes-bibliography and authors-date system using Turabian style. Select your source format to get started.
Ohio State University - Chicago Manual of Style Author-Date Style Guide
Examples of author-date citations using Chicago Style. Select your source format to get started.
Ohio State University - Chicago Manual of Style Notes-Bibliography System Style Guide
Examples of notes-bibliography citations using Chicago Style. Select your sources format to get started.

Butler University Libraries. Citation Guides: Chicago/Turabian Style. Retrieved November 18, 2015 from http://libguides.butler.edu/citations/chicago

Zotero

Zotero is:

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A research tool that helps users collect and organize sources.
An open-source program that can be downloaded as a browser extension for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari and as a standalone program that works with Windows, Mac, or Linux systems.

For many major databases and websites, the program can tell when a list of books or articles is displayed by showing an icon in the address bar, so citation information can be saved with just a few clicks.

Zotero can help you:

Annotate and organize research results, including video.
Save information about a reference, including author, title, and other publication information.
Create libraries and save searches, and share collections with other people.
Attach files, links, notes, and PDFs to records.
Store a screenshot of a web page.
Export information as formatted citations in word processing programs (Word, Open Office, Google Docs).
Tag and sort records and perform advanced searches.
View records in personal collection when offline.
Cite records in any language.

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RefWorks

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