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Turabian Style (author-date) Referencing Guide
(updated Apr 2024)


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How to do citations in Turabian Style (author-date) style?

This is the Citationsy guide to Turabian Style (author-date) citations, reference lists, in-text citations, and bibliographies.
The complete, comprehensive guide shows you how easy citing any source can be. Referencing books, youtube videos, websites, articles, journals, podcasts, images, videos, or music in Turabian Style (author-date).

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cite Turabian Style (author-date) — Referencing Guide



How do you cite a book in the Turabian Style (author-date) referencing style? (2024 Guide)

A book citation in Turabian Style (author-date) always includes the author name(s), the publication year, the book title, and the publisher. Here’s an example

Here’s an example book citation in Turabian Style (author-date) using placeholders:
Last Name, First Name. 2000. Title. Edited by Editor First Name Editor Last Name. Edition. City: Publisher.
So if we want to cite, for example, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou we’d do so like this:
Turabian Style (author-date) citation:
Angelou, Maya. 1969. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 1st ed. New York: Random House.
And an in-text citation book citation in Turabian Style (author-date) looks like this: (Angelou 1969)


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How to reference a journal article in the Turabian Style (author-date) citation style?

How do you cite scientific papers in Turabian Style (author-date) format?

Use the following template to cite a journal article using the Turabian Style (author-date) citation format.

Here’s a Turabian Style (author-date) journal citation example using placeholders:
Author1 LastnameAuthor1 Firstname, and Author3 LastnameAuthor2 Firstname. 2000. “Title”. Container Volume (Issue): pages Used. https://doi.org/DOI.
So if we want to reference this scientific article: “Testing consumer preferences for iced-coffee: Does the drinking environment have any influence?” by C. Petit and J.M. Sieffermann in Turabian Style (author-date):