MLA and Turabian Guidelines for Citing Sources This handout contains templates for various common types of sources in MLA style and two different Turabian Styles. If you have questions, our tutors would be happy to help you learn your style of citation. Contact Want to talk about MLA and Turabian? Come work with a tutor at the Writing Center! Drop by or use the information below to contact us and set up an appointment. (972) 883-6736 WritingCenter@UTDallas.edu www.utdallas.edu/studentsuccess/writing Quick Reference Basic Book Entry: Print Source... 1 Chapter in an Edited Book: Print Source... 2 Scholarly Journal Article: Print Source... 3 Scholarly Journal Article: Online Database... 4 Similarities and Differences Between Turabian Styles... 5
1 Basic Book Entry: Print Source MLA Works Cited Entry 1 Author s Last Name, Author s First Name. Book Title: Book Subtitle. Place of Publication: Publisher s Name, year of publication. Medium. Leggatt, Alexander. Shakespeare s Tragedies: Violation and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005. Print. (Leggatt 161) Turabian Bibliography Entry 2 Author s Last Name, Author s First Name. Book Title: Book Subtitle. Place of Publication: Publisher s Name, year of publication. Leggatt, Alexander. Shakespeare s Tragedies: Violation and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Footnote or Endnote: In most cases, place the superscript number after the sentence in which the reference to the source occurs. Then cite the source, indicating the relevant page numbers, in a correspondingly numbered note at the bottom of the page or at the end of your text. 1 1. Author s First and Last Names, Book Title: Book Subtitle (Place of Publication: Publisher s Name, year of publication), page number(s). 1. Alexander Leggatt, Shakespeare s Tragedies: Violation and Identity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 161. Turabian Reference List Entry 3 Author s Last Name, Author s First Name. year of publication. Book Title: Book Subtitle. Place of Publication: Publisher s Name. Leggatt, Alexander. 2005. Shakespeare s Tragedies: Violation and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Leggatt 2005, 161)
2 Chapter in an Edited Book: Print Source MLA Works Cited Entry 4 Author s Last Name, Author s First Name. Chapter Title: Chapter Subtitle. Book Title: Book Subtitle. Ed. Editor s First and Last Names. Place of Publication: Publisher s Name, year of publication. page range. Medium. Wright, Angela. In Search of Arden. Gothic Shakespeares. Ed. John Drakakis. New York: Routledge, 2008. 42-59. Print. (Wright 50-51) Turabian Bibliography Entry 5 Author s Last Name, Author s First Name. Chapter Title: Chapter Subtitle. In Book Title: Book Subtitle, edited by Editor s First and Last Names, page range. Place of Publication: Publisher s Name, year of publication. Wright, Angela. In Search of Arden. In Gothic Shakespeares, edited by John Drakakis, 42-59. New York: Routledge, 2008. Footnote or Endnote 2. Author s First and Last Names, Article Title: Article Subtitle, in Book Title: Book Subtitle, ed. Editor s First and Last Names (Place of Publication: Publisher s Name, year of publication), page number(s). 2. Angela Wright, In Search of Arden, in Gothic Shakespeares, ed. John Drakakis (New York: Routledge, 2008), 50-51. Turabian Reference List Entry 6 Author s Last Name, Author s First Name. year of publication. Chapter Title: Chapter Subtitle. In Book Title: Book Subtitle, edited by Editor s First and Last Names, page range. Place of Publication: Publisher s Name. Wright, Angela. 2008. In Search of Arden. In Gothic Shakespeares, edited by John Drakakis, 42-59. New York: Routledge. (Wright 2008, 50-51)
3 Scholarly Journal Article: Print Source MLA Works Cited Entry 7 Author s Last Name, Author s First Name. Article Title: Article Subtitle. Journal Title volume.issue (year of publication): page range. Medium. Spacks, Patricia Meyer. Oscillations of Sensibility. New Literary History 25.3 (1994): 505-20. Print. (Spacks 510-11) Turabian Bibliography Entry 8 Author s Last Name, Author s First Name. Chapter Title: Chapter Subtitle. Journal Title volume number, no. issue number (Date of Publication): page range. Spacks, Patricia Meyer. Oscillations of Sensibility. New Literary History 25, no. 3 (Summer 1994): 505-520. Footnote or Endnote 3. Author s First and Last Names, Chapter Title: Chapter Subtitle, Journal Title volume number, no. issue number (Date of Publication): page number(s). 3. Patricia Meyer Spacks, Oscillations of Sensibility, New Literary History 25, no. 3 (Summer 1994): 510-511. Turabian Reference List Entry 9 Author s Last Name, Author s First Name. year of publication. Article Title: Article Subtitle. Journal Title volume number, no. issue number (Additional Date Information): page range. Spacks, Patricia Meyer. 1994. Oscillations of Sensibility. New Literary History 25, no. 3 (Summer): 505-520. (Spacks 1994, 510-511)
4 Scholarly Journal Article: Online Database MLA Works Cited Entry 10 Author s Last Name, Author s First Name. Article Title: Article Subtitle. Journal Title volume.issue (year of publication): page range. Database Name. Medium. Date of Access. Miller, D. A. Hitchcock s Hidden Pictures. Critical Inquiry 37.1 (2010): 106-30. Academic Search Complete. Web. 5 May 2014. (Miller 106-07) Turabian Bibliography Entry 11 Author s Last Name, Author s First Name. Article Title: Article Subtitle. Journal Title volume number, no. issue number (Date of Publication): page range. Accessed Date of Access. URL or Database Name. Miller, D. A. Hitchcock s Hidden Pictures. Critical Inquiry 37, no. 1 (Autumn 2010): 106-130. Accessed May 5, 2014. Academic Search Complete. Footnote or Endnote 4. Author s First and Last Names, Article Title: Article Subtitle, Journal Title volume number, no. issue number (Date of Publication): page number(s), accessed Date of Access, URL or Database Name. 4. D. A. Miller, Hitchcock s Hidden Pictures, Critical Inquiry 37, no. 1 (Autumn 2010): 106-107, accessed May 5, 2014, Academic Search Complete. Turabian Reference List Entry 12 Author s Last Name, Author s First Name. year of publication. Article Title: Article Subtitle. Journal Title volume number, no. issue number (Additional Date Information): page range. Accessed Date of Access. URL or Database Name. Miller, D. A. 2010. Hitchcock s Hidden Pictures. Critical Inquiry 37, no. 1 (Autumn): 106-130. Accessed May 5, 2014. Academic Search Complete. (Miller 2010, 106-107)
5 Similarities and Differences between Turabian Citation Styles Some Basic Entries Bibliography Reference List Indents Line Spacing Indent the second and subsequent lines of a listing by ½ inch. Single space within each entry Double space between each entry Sort List alphabetically by author and then by title if necessary. List alphabetically by author and then by date if necessary. Publication Year Book: Place after the publisher s name. Place after the author s name. Journal: Place after the volume and number. Place after the author s name. Book Title Capitalization: Use Use headline style; style; capitalize capitalize each significant each significant word. Type: Put in italics. Journal Name Capitalization: Use headline style; capitalize each significant word. Type: Put in italics. Title of Article and of Book Chapter Capitalization: Use headline style; capitalize each significant word. Punctuation: Enclose in quotation marks. Journal Volume, Number, Date, and Page Range Place after the journal name: volume, issue (date): page range. Place after the journal name: Volume, issue (date information other than year): page range. Examples: 36, no. 4 (October 2010): 105-106. Examples: 36, no. 4 (October): 105-106. 36, no. 4 (2010): 105-106. [when there is no date information other than year] 36, no. 4: 105-106. [when there is no date information other than year]
6 Works Consulted Modern Language Association of America. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: MLA, 2009. Print. Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers. Ed. Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. 8th ed. Chicago: Chicago UP, 2013. Print. Notes 1. See the MLA Handbook for information about citing a book by a single author (section 5.5.2). 2. See Turabian s Manual for information about citing books according to the notesbibliography style (section 17.1). 3. See Turabian s Manual for information about citing books according to the author-date style (section 19.1). 4. See the MLA Handbook for information about citing inclusive page numbers (section 3.5.6), publishers names (section 7.5), and a chapter in an edited book (section 5.5.6). 5. See Turabian s Manual for information about citing inclusive page numbers (section 23.2.4), publishers names (section 17.1.6.2), and a chapter in an edited book according to the notesbibliography style (section 17.1.8.2). 6. See Turabian s Manual for information about citing publishers names (section 19.1.7.2) and a chapter in an edited book according to the author-date style (section 19.1.9.2). 7. See the MLA Handbook for information about citing journal articles in print (section 5.4.2). 8. See Turabian s Manual for information about citing journal articles in print according to the notes-bibliography style (section 17.2). 9. See Turabian s Manual for information about citing journal articles in print according to the author-date style (section 19.2). 10. See the MLA Handbook for information about citing journal articles in online databases (section 5.6.3). 11. See Turabian s Manual for information about citing journal articles in online databases according to the notes-bibliography style (section 17.2). 12. See Turabian s Manual for information about citing journal articles in online databases according to the author-date style (section 19.2).