Turabian Style Guide
Turabian Style Guide
Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago
Style for Students and Researchers, 9th Edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press, 2018.
document. Students are encouraged to purchase the book, as when papers are graded reference
will be made to pages in this book. Use Turabian citations and formatting unless otherwise
instructed in this Style Guide. Turabian is available in the Western Seminary library reference
section. Turabian is the official style guide for Western Seminary ministry courses. APA is the
General Guidelines
• Confirm with the professor what type of paper you are writing: research, reflection,
• Use Turabian unless otherwise instructed by the professor. Section references below are
from Turabian.
• Font: 12-point Times New Roman, 10-point Arial, or an equivalent (Section A.1.2).
• Double-space all text except noted in Section A.1.3 (i.e., block quotes, etc.).
• Margins: 1 inch on all four edges of the page. Use left justification, not center or right.
• Indent paragraphs .5 inches (use “First Line Indent” in Word).
• Page numbers: number the pages, but do not number the title page. Page 1 is the first
page of the text (Section A.1.4). “Page numbers are usually placed in one of four
locations: centered or flush right in the footer (at the bottom of the page) or centered or
flushed right in the header (at the top of the page). . . choose one of these locations and
• Use headings/sub-headings as needed in the text to make it clear what aspect of the
assignment you are completing. Triple space (24 points of space) before heading and
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• Use the following heading formats for your different heading levels (each heading should
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• Use Turabian’s abbreviations for books of the Bible. See 24.6 in Turabian or as follows:
Citations
• Use the “Notes-Bibliography Style” as detailed in Chapters 16-17 (not the “Author-Date
• Footnotes should use the same font and indents as regular text, but should be 2 sizes
smaller. I.e., if regular text is 12-point Times New Roman, footnotes should be 10-point
• Use Word defaults for footnote numbers (superscript number, space, footnote text).
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• Footnotes may be single-spaced both within and between footnotes.
N: 1
Todd Miles, Superheroes Can’t Save You: Epic Examples of Historic Heresies (Nashville, TN: B&H
Academic, 2018), 33.
B: Miles, Todd. Superheroes Can’t Save You: Epic Examples of Historic Heresies. Nashville, TN:
B&H Academic, 2018.
N: 2
Patrick Schreiner, “Space, Place and Biblical Studies: A Survey of Recent Research in Light of
Developing Trends,” Currents in Biblical Research 14, no. 3 (June 2016): 360,
https://doi.org/10.1177/1476993X15580409.
B: Schreiner, Patrick. “Space, Place and Biblical Studies: A Survey of Recent Research in Light of
Developing Trends.” Currents in Biblical Research 14, no. 3 (June 2016): 340-71.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1476993X15580409.
• See Chapter 17 for additional citation instructions and examples of different resources.
• Repeated citations should use a shortened note form, as directed in Section 16.4. Do not
use ibid.
Title Page
• The title is a third of the way down the page (about six double-spaced lines) and there are
about eight double-spaced lines after the title. Titles more than 1-line long should have
successive lines shorter than those before, shaped like an inverted triangle.
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