University of Peshawar

AN ASSIGNMENT ON

TURABIAN MUANVAL

SUBMITTED TO: Professor Ismail

BY

MISHAL (MLS) Previous

20th February 2010

Department of Library Science and Information University of

Peshawar
“Copyright” © 2010, Ashraf Zareen (Mishal).

All Right reserved

 TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction 1
2. The Origin of the Turabinan Style 1
3. Formatting a paper in Turabian Style 2
INTRODUCTION: 1

"Turabian style" is named after the book's original author, Kate L. Turabian, who
developed it for the University of Chicago. She was born in 1893 in Chicago where she
was also raised, graduating from Hyde Park High School. A serious illness prevented
Kate from attending college. Instead she took a job as a typist at an advertising agency,
where she worked alongside a young Sherwood Anderson.

She began working in 1919 at the University as a departmental secretary a few years
later. In 1930 she became the University’s dissertation secretary, a newly created position
in which every accepted doctoral thesis had to cross her desk. It was there that she wrote
a small pamphlet describing the correct style for writing college dissertations. That
pamphlet eventually became A Manual for Writers and has gone on to sell more than
eight million copies in seven editions.

THE ORIGIN OF THE TURABIAN STYLE: 2

Turabian Manual is a guide for writing and formatting research papers thesis, and
dissertations and preparing them for submission using today’s electronic technology such
as the arrangement and punctuation of footnotes and bibliographies.

The manual focuses on providing guidelines for student papers, theses and dissertations.
According to the description of the 7th edition, Turabian's Manual "presents two basic
documentation systems, simply bibliography style and reference list style. These styles
are essentially the same as those presented in The Chicago Manual of Style.

In some aspects, however, Turabian differs from the styles that are developed and
published in style guides by Modern language Association (MLA) style and American
Physiological Association (APA) style.

Turabian's key contrast with the APA style is that it was developed specifically for the
purpose of being used in papers written for a class and not for publication, whereas APA
was originally developed by the American Psychological Association for use in writing
intended for publication in professional journals, although college writing course
textbooks, present APA style as the documentation style to use for student research
papers in the social sciences and related fields.

Whereas the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers is directed to high-school
and college and university undergraduate students and teachers, and the MLA Style
Manual is directed to more advanced graduate students, scholars, and professional
writers, Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
is directed to both levels of students who are writing graduate-level (M.A. and Ph.D.)
1
Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams, A Manual for Writers of Research papers, Theses, and
Dissertations, 7th Edition April 2007 Published by Chicago Press.
2
Writing styles for College Students, Peter Gallagher, Pg, 77 and Published by
http://www.studystudent.com.
theses and dissertations as well as undergraduate research papers. Journals that
require Chicago style for publication will generally accept Turabian's forms, which are
based on it.

Some academic journals in musicology, history, art history, women's studies, and
theology require use of Chicago style or the Turabian style for published articles in them.

FORMATTING A PAPER IN TURABIAN STYLE:

The basic guidelines for creating a thesis, dissertation or formal paper using
Turabian Style is simple. Some of the guidelines are given below.

ALIGNMENT: Turabian Style requires left justification of all text but it allows for either
ragged right or full justification of text. If you choose full justification, Turabian
Style requires you to ensure that the spacing between words is minimal and
that hyphens used to break words at the end of a line are used correctly and sparingly.

CAPITALIZATION: Turabian Style allows for two types of capitalization. Capitalizing the
headings. Sentence capitalization calls for capitalizing only the first word, a word after a
colon, and proper nouns.

DATE: Turabian Style allows for two date formats: 20 February 2010 (day month year) or
February 20, 2010 (month day, year). Just be certain that you select one format and stick
with it throughout your paper.

HYPHENATION: With Turabian Style, you may break words with a hyphen at the end of a
line in your main text, but you should not hyphenate words at the end of two consecutive
lines.

INDENTIONS: Turabian Style does not require a specific indention measurement, but it
does require that writers use the same amount of indention throughout the paper.

MARGINS: For all four sides of the paper, use a 1-inch margin. However, if the paper will
be bound on the left, a wider margin is allowed on the left side.

PAGE NUMBERING: Number almost every page in the paper with Arabic numerals, other
than the pages that lead into the main text, such as the copyright, dedication, and table of
contents pages. All of these pages, which Turabian Style calls "display" pages, should be
numbered with lowercase roman numerals. Do not number the title page, but count the
title page among the display pages. The next page should be blank or the copyright page,
and it is not numbered, either.

PAPER TYPE: Use standard white, 20-pound bond paper that measures 8.5-by-11 inches.
SPACING: Use double-spacing throughout the paper's main text. However, block
quotation, endnotes, footnotes, headings, and captions may be single-spaced, according to
Turabian Style.

TITLE: Center all text on the title page, both horizontally and vertically. All text should
be uppercase and double-spaced.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: The table of contents is an optional page, and it should be

numbered as part of the display pages. It is an organized listing of the contents of the
paper, providing page numbers to the various sections and headings in the paper. Type
"CONTENTS" or"TABLE OF CONTENTS" centered at the top of the page.

MAIN TEXT: Begin numbering the main text with Arabic numerals, and you should no
longer use the lowercase roman numerals from the display pages. Each Arabic page
number should appear in the upper right corner of each page. If you have a chapter
heading or another type of main heading at the top of a page, you may center the page
number at the bottom of the page.

Apart from these there are some other optional headings in the beginning of a thesis like;
DEDICATION, EPIGRAPH PAGE, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND LIST OF
TABLES, PREFACE, LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS OR GLOSSARY and ABSTRACT.
Before the main text and when the text is finished you add APPENDIX. The last and
more important part of a thesis is bibliography.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OR REFERENCE LIST: The reference list page should include all
works that you have cited in your paper, listed alphabetically. You must continue the
Arabic page numbering throughout the bibliography pages.
BIBLOGRAPHY

1. Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams, A Manual for Writers of Research

papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 7th Edition April 2007 Published by Chicago
Press.

2. Writing styles for College Students, (Peter Gallagher, n.d). Pg, 77 and Published
by http://www.studystudent.com.