As before, the OWL at Pturdue University is a really good online guide to the most common styles. Remember: for Turabian, you’ll need to use the Chicago Style.
- Citation = what most people call a note (including endnotes and footnotes)
- Source in a bibliography, reference list or works cited list = what most people call a citation, bibliographic citation or reference.
Ward-Perkins, Bryan. The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Print.
With hanging indent & double spacing
Example of MLA book citation with double spacing & hanging indent.
APA
Ward-Perkins, B. (2006.) The fall of Rome and the end of civilization. New York: Oxford University Press.
With hanging indent:
Example of a book with a single author in APA style.
TURABIAN/CHICAGO
Bibliography/Humanities
Ward-Perkins, Bryan. The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
With hanging indent:
Example of a book citation in Chicago/Turabian bibliography/humanities style.
USING WORD REFERENCE SYSTEM TO CITE BOOKS.
First, you need to make sure that MLA 7th and APA 6th are options on your style box if you want to use those styles. If you have updated Word when prompted, both should be available for Word 2010 and Word 2007. They should show up automatically in Word 2013. If not, you’ll need to apply outstanding updates. You can start here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/help/windows-update. Word 2003 users are out of luck – I suggest you (and Word 2007 – 2010 people) use one of the free systems available on the web such as EasyBib or eTurabian (scroll down for APA and MLA.)
Using Word for Chicago/Turabian. It’s complicated. Word 365 has Chicago 16th, which is the most recent, but it only has Turabian 6th, which is two editions old. You can try using Chicago, but in my experience, it won’t work that well.
It is much better to use eTurabian, which also does both kinds of notes as well as citations.
Whatever automated system you use, you will need to fill out the correct boxes with the correct information.
- Notes = citations
- Citations = sources in bibliographies, reference lists or works cited lists
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- Fill in the boxes with your source information.
- See the slides later in the reading for examples
- Choose the type of source
- Each source will have different blanks to fill in
- Have blank boxes? For books, there are two main possibilities:
- You chose the wrong source type
- You didn’t collect necessary information
APA basic format for books.
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Filling out the boxes for an APA 6th citation.
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MLA 7th EDITION – EXAMPLE OF A BOOK CITATION USING WORD
- Choose the type of source
- Each source will have different blanks to fill in
- Have blank boxes? For books, there are two main possibilities:
- You chose the wrong source type
- You didn’t collect necessary information
- On older versions of Word, you will need to click the button at the bottom of the sources box to get additional boxes including the medium of publication. This is not necessary on later versions.
Using Word to format a book in MLA 7th edition.
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Example of a book citation, MLA 7th, using Word.
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THINGS TO WATCH FOR WHEN USING THE WORD REFERENCE SYSTEM:
- For most citation styles you will need to check the box: Show all Bibliography Fields
- It will not correct spelling errors
- It will not capitalize correctly – you must do that
- If you’ve got a fussy instructor, double check and then check again.
- The system is often incorrect
The most common problem is putting information in the wrong boxes.
USING eTURABIAN TO FORMAT CITATIONS
Go to the eTurabian site (they also do APA and MLA)
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Next choose your style. Additional formats are available from the list in the center (7th edition).
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Fill out the form. Be sure to check the box above the title asking about capitalization. Use pages numbers only if you are doing a note. For a citation, leave those boxes blank. Then click submit.
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Copy the formatted citation into Word.
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As with Word, the most common mistake using any system is putting information in the wrong box.
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