Guide to Citing Your Sources

Helpful Citation Tips

Our library catalog, WorldCat, and many of our

databases have features that will provide the

appropriate citation in a variety of formats

(Chicago, APA, etc.) in a pop-up window for your to

copy and paste. They can also export citations into

citation managers (like Zotero or RefWorks).

However, you will still need to double check

the spelling, capitalization, placement of words, and

punctuation, as there may be errors and you are

responsible for the formatting of all citations you

submit in your papers, regardless of whether

software produced them.

Frequently-Used Style Guides

The Chicago Manual of Style. Theo. Ref. Z253 .U69 2003, also online in our catalog.

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian. Theo. Ref. LB2369 .T8 2013.

The SBL Handbook of Style. Theo. Ref. PN147 .S26 1999, also online in our catalog.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA). Theo. Ref. BF76.7 .P83 2001.

Style Guide. American Sociological Association. Mugar Stacks HM73 .A54 2007

If you are not sure which style guide to

use for each class,

ask your professor(s) or TF(s). Citation Managers

If you would like an easier way to manage citations,

especially if you plan to go on to do further

academic study, check out our workshops on the

free citation managers Zotero and RefWorks.

Helpful Hint: Purdue’s Online Writing Lab (OWL) has extensive and easy-to-use

guides for Chicago, APA, and MLA. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/

Chicago or Turabian? What’s the difference?

Not much, actually!

Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Research

Papers, Theses, and Dissertations calls itself

“Chicago Style for Students & Researchers”

— it’s on the cover, in fact.

Not sure what to cite?

Come to the library’s

Plagiarism Workshop to find out more

about what and when to cite.

Guide to Citing Your Sources

Chicago Manual of Style: Basic Examples

Books CMoS 14.100

Footnote: Howard Clark Kee, Emily Albu, Carter Lindberg, J. William Frost, and Dana L. Robert, Christianity : A Social and Cultural History (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998).

Bibliography: Kee, Howard Clark, Emily Albu, Carter Lindberg, J. William Frost, and Dana L. Robert. Christianity : A Social and Cultural History. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998.

Chapter/Article in Books CMoS 14.106-14.107

Footnote: J. Kameron Carter, “Prelude on Christology and Race: Irenaeus as Anti-Gnostic Intellectual,” in Race : A Theological Account, (Oxford University Press, 2008), 11–36.

Bibliography: Carter, J. Kameron. "Prelude on Christology and Race: Irenaeus as Anti‐Gnostic Intellectual." In Race: A Theological Account, Oxford University Press, 2008.

Journal Article CMoS 14.168-14.171

Footnote: Phyllis Zagano, “A Woman’s Place: It’s Time to Reclaim a Forgotten Ministry,” U.S. Catholic 83, no. 6 (June 2018): 18–22.

Bibliography: Zagano, Phyllis. "A Woman's Place: It’s Time to Reclaim a Forgotten Ministry." U.S. Catholic 83, no. 6 (2018): 18-20.

Ante-Nicene Fathers (ANF) and The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (NPNF) SBL 6.4.5

While each volume in these series has an individual title (ie. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus, which is volume 1 of The Ante-Nicene Fathers), as series they are considered classic works,

referred to by their series’ abbreviations (ANF, NPNF1 and NPNF2).

If you are using a hardcopy, the page number would follow the series and volume (ie. ANF 1:151).

Footnote: Irenaeus, Against Heresies 3.3 (ANF 1).

Bibliography: Irenaeus, Against Heresies, in vol. 1 of The Ante-Nicene Fathers.: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325. Edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. 1885-1887. 10 vols. Repr. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001; Grand Rapids: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, n.d. Accessed 09/06/2018. http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.txt.

How to Cite Scripture References

The Chicago Manual of Style covers Biblical references in sections 14.238-14.241. It gives Bible chapter

abbreviations in sections 10.45-10.47; abbreviations for Bible translations (versions) are listed in 10.48.

Include the version in your first scriptural footnote; after that only if you switch between more than one. The

Bible, like other classical references, does not need to be included in the bibliography at the end of the paper.

Footnote: John 3:16 NRSV.