Chicago Manual of Style, Turabian Format

Prepared for students at Merrimack College

“Biblical Perspectives on Marriage and Family”
by Dr. Virginia Kimball, Department of Religious Studies and Theology

Students, use this guide to format your research paper. It is based on and in some cases
adapted from the following book found in the Reference Room of the McQuade Library:

Author
Turabian,
Kate L.
Title A manual for writers of term papers, theses, and
dissertations / Kate L. Turabian.
Publisher Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

LOCATION CALL # STATUS

Merrimack College [REF] LB2369 .T8 1996 LIB USE ONLY
Edition 6th ed. / rev. by John Grossman and Alice Bennett.
Description ix, 308 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cm.
Series Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing
Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-286) and index.
Subject Dissertations, Academic.
Report writing.

The guide given below provides the most commonly used source publications. Consult
Turabian’s Manual for Writers for examples of the proper way to cite references not
given in this guide.

1) You must distinguish that there are basically two sets of notation formatting to use in
your paper which have different construction. You will use FOOTNOTES (bottom of the
page) and a BIBLIOGRAPHY which is posted at the end of your paper. For EVERY
source you use, there will be two different citations to construct – one in the
FOOTNOTE, and one for the BIBLIOGRAPHY.

2) Construct your FOOTNOTES and BIBLIOGRAPHY exactly to the guidelines of this

Turabian guide, a form of citation which is particularly suitable to research papers written
in the field of Anthropology and Religion.

Citations from hard copy print sources:

BOOK (ONE AUTHOR)

Bibliography:
Entries are listed alphabetically, according to author’s last name, single spaced, with
double space between entries. If more than one book by the same author is cited, the
titles are listed alphabetically, and the space for the name is a line.

Vorgrimler, Herbert. Sacramental Theology. Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical

Press, 1992.

________. Dogmatic and Biblical Theology. Baltimore: Helicon, 1964.

Footnote:
Go to the Toolbar on your computer screen, click on “Insert.” Go to “Reference” and
click on “Footnote.” The superscript number will immediately appear in your text and a
superscript number at the bottom of the page. Space over two spaces by the number at the
bottom of the page and begin the citation. When you are finished typing the entry, double
click on the footnote number to return to the text. Note that in this entry you list the first
name of the author before the last name. In this entry, you list the page number of the
book where your quotation is found.

[If one book by this author is used.]

1
Herbert Vorgrimler, Dogmatic and Biblical Theology (Baltimore: Helicon, 1964), 45.
2
Vorgrimler, 55
3
Vorgrimler, 70. .

[If more than one book and/or articles by the same author are used in the paper, when the
citation does not immediately follow the book entry as in footnotes 1 and 2 above.]
4
Vorgrimler, Dogmatic and Biblical Theology, 48. .
5
Vorgrimler, Sacramental Theology, 115.

BOOK (TWO OR MORE AUTHORS)

Bibliography:

Lawler, Michael G. and William P. Roberts, eds. Christian Marriage and Family.
Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 1996.

.
Footnote:
1
Michael G. Lawler and William P. Roberts, eds., Christian Marriage and Family
(Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 1992), 58.
2
Lawler and Roberts, 18.
3
Lawler and Roberts. [If same page as previous footnote]

SIGNED AUTHOR IN A BOOK

Bibliography:

Sakenfeld, Katharine Doob. “Tamar, Rahab, Ruth and the Wife of Uriah.” In Blessed
One, Protestant Perspectives on Mary, edited by Beverly Roberts Gaventa and
Cynthia L. Rigby, 21-31. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002.

Footnote:
5
Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, “Tamar, Rahab, Ruth and the Wife of Uriah” in Blessed
One, Protestant Perspectives on Mary, edited by Beverly Roberts Gaventa and Cynthia
L. Rigby (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002), 25.

JOURNAL ARTICLE
Remember that you may not use newspaper or general interest magazine articles as
sources in your research paper! Web pages are used as sources only if approved by the
professor.

Bibliography:

Genovesi, Vincent J. “Gay and Lesbian Rights: Sexual Ethics or Social Justice.”
Theological Studies 1, V 58, (March, 1997): 200 – 204.

[Note: The issue number, if available, is given before the volume number. The volume
number may be written the following ways: “Vol.” or “V” or with the number only “52.”
The issue number is only written as a number.]

Footnote:
6
Vincent J. Genovesi, “Gay and Lesbian Rights: Sexual Ethics or Social Justice,”
Theological Studies 1, V 58 (March, 1997): 200.

ELECTRONIC SOURCES Signed articles on an approved web page or special

information on a web site, by professor’s permission only! Or, they may be used if
given, only in excess to required source material. If you are citing an electronic source,
check with the professor for the exact format.
Website on the Internet:
Bibliography and Footnote (the same format):

Bibliography
Virginia Kimball, “A Reflection on the Feast of the Assumption.” The Mary Page. Last
Revision, January 8 2003. www.udayton.edu/mary/meditations/kimball.html
(Accessed September 11, 2005.)

Footnote
7
Virginia Kimball, “A Reflection on the Feast of the Assumption.” The Mary Page.
Last Revision, January 8 2003. www.udayton.edu/mary/meditations/kimball.html
(Accessed September 11, 2005.)

JOURNAL ARTICLE FROM FULL-TEXT DATABASE

Bibliography:

Jelly, Frederick M. “Mary, the bearer of Christian unity.” One in Christ 16, 1-2 (1980):
http://web14.epnet.com , 136-145 (11 September 2005).

Boss, Sarah Jane. “A virgin conceived: Mary and classical representations of virginity.”
Theology Today 62, no. 1 (April 2005): http://web14.epnet.com, 104-110 (12
September 2005).

Footnote:
8
Sarah Jane Boss. “A virgin conceived: Mary and classical representations of
virginity,” Theology Today 62, no. 1 (April 2005): http://web14.epnet.com, 105 (12
September 2005).

CITATIONS WHICH ARE NOT DIRECT QUOTATIONS

For any specific information (such as dates, data, unique ideas, historical or theological
information using technical terminology) you MUST give the citation of the source you
are using. For instance, if you are paraphrasing information from a church document or
theological source, you must acknowledge that source by giving the information in the
footnote. These entries are also included in the bibliography, even though the source has
not been directly quoted.

CITATIONS FROM THE BIBLE

Bibliography:

Saint Mary’s Press, College Study Bible, New American Bible, Including the Revised
Psalms and the Revised New Testament, Translated from the Original Languages
with Critical Use of all the Ancient Sources. Winona, MN: St. Mary’s Press,
2006.

Footnote:
7
Saint Mary’s Press, College Study Bible, New American Bible, Including the Revised
Psalms and the Revised New Testament, Translated from the Original Languages with
Critical Use of all the Ancient Sources (Winona, MN: St. Mary’s Press, 2006), Genesis
3:3.

CITATIONS FROM THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, A

MAGISTERIAL DOCUMENT, OR PATRISTIC TEXT

Bibliography:

Catechism of the Catholic Church. http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/ccc_toc.htm

(Accessed July 7, 2007)

John Paul II. Ecclesia in America, The Church in America. Boston: Pauline Books &
Media,1999.

John Paul II. Ecclesia in America, The Church in America.

http://www.ewtn.com/jp99/ecclesia.htm (Accessed July 7, 2007)

St. Basil of Caesarea. Letter 160. http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3202160.htm

(Accessed July 7, 2007)

Footnote:
8
John Paul II, Ecclesia in America, The Church in America (Boston: Pauline Books &
Media, 1999), § 60.
8
John Paul II, Ecclesia in America, The Church in America
http://www.ewtn.com/jp99/ecclesia.htm (Accessed July 7, 2007), § 60.
9
St. Basil of Caesarea, Letter 160 http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3202160.htm
(Accessed July 7, 2007), § 2.
10
Catechism of the Catholic Church,
http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/ccc_toc.htm (Accessed July 7, 2007), § 2143.

IMPORTANT NOTE CONCERNING THE BIBLIOGRAPHY:

- All entries are listed alphabetically by author (or title if no author is given).
- Bibliography is single spaced for each entry and double spaced between entries.
- The second and subsequent lines of each entry are indented five spaces.
- All sources footnoted in the paper are included in the bibliography. Sources researched
but not used in the paper are listed under the title “Works Consulted” (in the bibliographic
format.)

TITLE PAGE
For this paper there is no particular format for the title page. On a separate piece of paper
give the title of your research paper, your name, and the date.