Turabian Footnote System

Published submissions do not include the bibliography as the footnotes should contain most the information you consulted when writing your paper. Therefore, the examples given are only for the footnotes. If you have any other questions about the Turabian system, please e-mail the editor-in-chief of the journal, one of the history professors, or purchase the manual in the bookstore.

This is an example of a book: with one author but has an editor; with one author only; with two authors; with the two authors of the same book being cited again (note that the same technique is done for any citation of a previous fully footnoted citation that is quoted again without a citation from another source in between); and a book with one author but has an introduction by another author.

[1] June Jordan, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America…in Wild Women in the Whirlwind: Afra-American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance, eds. Joanne M. Braxton and Andrée Nicola Mclaughlin (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990), 27-28.

2Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 184.

3 W.G. Youngquist and H.O. Fleischer, Wood in American Life: 1776-2076 (Wisconsin: Forest Products Research Society, 1977), 64.

4 Ibid., 55.

5 Mrs. N.F. Mossell, The Work of the Afro-American Woman, with an introduction by Joanne Braxton (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 54.

This is an example of a journal- with one author; another author; and the citing of a previous author (note that the same technique is done for any citation of a previously fully footnoted citation. Also note that when the citation has more than one author, only the last name of the first author is necessary.)

[1] Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, "Slavery, Race, and the Figure of the Tragic Mulatta, or the Ghost of Southern History in the Writing of African-American Women," Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 49, Is. 4 (Fall96): 5.

2 Erica R. Armstrong, "A Mental and Moral Feast: Reading Writing, and Sentimentality in Black Philadelphia," Journal of Women's History, Vol. 16, Is. 1 (2004): 2-3.

3 Fox-Genovese., 21.

The next two are citations from a Magazine (note that only the date is needed- not a volume number) and one from a newspaper.

[1] Kenneth J. Korane, "Forest Machines Tread Lightly", Machine Design, 11 September 1997, 58.

2 The Seattle Times, "Weyerhaeuser's world: Forest giant branches out to fertile Uruguay", 02 June 2003.