HIST 162 History Matters/U.S.: BLM -- Professor Crosby: Citing sources
Chicago/Turabian Citations
Turabian Quick Guide Chicago Manual of Style Online Chicago Manual of Style (OWL)
NOTE: In the Turabian manual, the Bibliography/Note style is covered in Chapters 16 and 17, starting on page 144. Avoid Chapters 18 and 19, which give examples of the Author-Date style, which you will not be using for this class.
Practice Citing Online Sources
Use this GoogleDoc to practice CMS/Turabian citations. Write a bibliography entry for these online sources:
Group 1: Movement for Black Lives -- Political Power
Group 2: "Incarceration" -- cite the video
Group 3: Stokely Carmichael Interview -- cite the transcript
Group 4: "Police response to #BLM in Rochester, NY, July 9, 2016" -- cite the video
Group 5: "LeRoi Jones Leads the Black Arts Parade" -- cite the photograph
Group 6: "George Jackson's Funeral" -- cite the complete article, which is 8 pages long, with the author's name on the last page
Group 8: "About Amiri Baraka"-- cite the paragraphs by Joel Oppenheimer
Group 9: Panther Newspaper - Vol 3 Part 1 1969 article called "To Feed Our Children" p. 3 (accessible on It's About Time.)
Group 10: Miller Interview found on Case Files: The Killing of Freddie Gray
Group 11: Kellen Turner Oral History Interview
Group 12: Black Youth Project Survey, Original Research, 2005
Group 13: Black Catholicism and Black Lives Matter: The Process Towards Joining a Movement found using the database called America: History & Life
Group 14: Forward Through Ferguson -- cite the quote from Byron Watson
Group 15: Challenging Incarceration Stories: Farah Ly -- cite the video
Group 16: "Race in the Writers' Room: How Hollywood Whitewashes the Stories that Shape America"
Checklists
Before handing in your research paper, look closely at your footnotes and bibliography. Ask yourself these questions:
1. For every article that I got IN PDF FORM FROM A RESEARCH DATABASE, do I have all of these elements?
an author
"An Article Title in Quotes, With All Words Capitalized (except in, and, of)"
a journal or magazine or newspaper title in italics, and All Words in the Journal Title Capitalized
a volume number
a year
page number(s)
2. For every article I got ON A WEB PAGE, do I have all of these elements?
an author
"An Article Title in Quotes, With All Words Capitalized (except for in, and, of)"
a journal or magazine or newspaper title in italics, and All Words in the Journal Title Capitalized
a volume number
a year
a DOI or a Permalink or a URL
an access date
page number(s), if available
3. For every book, do I have all of these elements?
an author
a title in italics, With All Words Capitalized (except for in, and, of)
a publisher
a place of publication
a year
4. For every essay or book chapter, do I have all of these elements?
"an essay title in quotes, With All Words Capitalized (except in, and, of, etc.)"
an author
a book title in italics, With All Words Capitalized (except for in, and, of)
an editor
a publisher
a place of publication
a year
page numbers
5. For every web page, do I have all of these elements?
a title of the web page, With All Words Capitalized (except for in, and, of)
the name of the organization or publication that sponsors the web page
a URL
a year, if available
an author, if available
an access date
Citing Sources
Example: Journal article
Correct form for a FOOTNOTE for a journal article you got as a PDF:
Correct form for a BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY for a journal article you got as a PDF:
Example: Book
Correct form for a FOOTNOTE for a book:
Correct form for a BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY for a book:
Example: Newspaper article online
Angela Davis Acquitted On All Charges
Correct form for a FOOTNOTE for a newspaper article you got online:
Correct form for a BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY for a newspaper article you got online:
Example: TV Program, on YouTube
1966 THROWBACK: Stokely Carmichael On CBS "FACE THE NATION"
Correct FOOTNOTE for a TV program you found on YouTube:
Correct BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY for a TV program you found on YouTube:
Example: Sources from Digital Collections
Ella Baker, SNCC Digital Gateway
Correct form for a footnote and bibliography entry for unsigned text from a web page:
Women in SNCC, SNCC Digital Gateway
Correct form for a footnote and bibliography entry for signed essay from a web page:
Another example: Interview with Ella Baker
Example: Sources from Digital Collections
Letter to an Unidentified Recipient
Jeff Donaldson papers, part of Archives of American Art, part of the Smithsonian Institution
Correct form for a footnote for a specific document in a digital collection:
Correct form for a bibliography entry for a specific document in a digital collection:
Correct form for a bibliography entry if you've used multiple items from the same digital collection:
