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Turabian citation style

A guide to citing sources using Turabian Style, 9th edition

Additional resources

For more examples or more specific information about how to cite articles, please see Sections 19.2-19.4 of the Turabian Guide.

Print journal articles

Article with one author

Sample reference list entry:

Cox, Gordon. 1977. "A Newfoundland Christmas Caroling Tradition." Folk Music Journal 3, no. 3: 242-60.

Article with multiple authors

In the reference list include all authors' names, no matter how many. (But in your in-text citation for more than 3 authors, list the first author followed by "et al.")

Sample reference list entry:

Hawkins, Ben, Justin Crowe, Clayton Jones, Rita Sue Dreifuss, and Apollonia Bojakshiya. 2005. “The Road to Damascus.” Carnivale 2, no. 13 (July): 1-24.

Ejournal articles

Journal article accessed through a library database

If you accessed it through the library, give the DOI or “Digital Object Identifier” (preferred) or the name of the database (e.g. Historical Abstracts, Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, Art Index, etc.).

Sample reference list entry:

Pepin, Pierre, Eugene Colbourne, and Gary Maillet. 2011. "Seasonal Patterns in Zooplankton Community Structure on the Newfoundland and Labrador Shelf." Progress in Oceanography 91, no. 3: 273-285. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2011.01.003.

Small, Christopher. 2001. "Why Doesn't the Whole World Love Chamber Music?" American Music 19, no. 3 (Autumn): 340-59. JSTOR.

Journal article accessed on the web

Provide the DOI (digital object identifier) for the article. If no DOI is available, list the article's URL instead.

Sample reference list entry:

McLeod, Kembrew. 2009. "Crashing the Spectacle: A Forgotten History of Digital Sampling, Infringement, Copyright Liberation and the End of Recorded Music." Culture Machine 10: 114-30. http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/view/349/351.

Magazine articles

Print magazine article

Cite magazines by date only, even if they have a volume/issue number. Don’t include the page number range of magazine articles in your reference list.

Sample reference list entry:

Smith, Jane. 1996. "There is No Resisting the Borg Queen." Maclean's, December 2, 1996.

Online magazine articles

If you accessed it through the library, give the DOI or “Digital Object Identifier” (preferred) or the name of the database (e.g. Academic Search Complete, ProQuest Central, etc.). If you accessed it on the internet, include the URL.

Sample reference list entry:

Moher, Frank. 2010. "Son of the Rock." Backofthebook.ca: Canada's Online Magazine, October 11, 2010. http://backofthebook.ca/2008/10/11/son-of-the-rock/331/.

Newspaper articles

Print newspaper article

Do not include page numbers for newspapers in the reference list or in-text citations.\

Sample reference list entry:

Kilfoy, Cameron. 2023. "Lost Bales of Hay Cause Serious Highway Accident." The Telegram, November 15, 2023.

Online newspaper article

If you accessed it through the library, give the DOI or “Digital Object Identifier” (preferred) or the name of the database (e.g. Factiva, Academic Search Complete, ProQuest Central, etc.). If you accessed it on the internet, include the URL. Do not include page numbers for newspapers. If there is no author, use the name of the newspaper in place of the author.

Sample reference list entry:

Hoekstra, Dave. 2005. "Restoring a Legacy." Chicago Sun-Times, December 19, 2005. http://www.suntimes.com/output/hurricane/cst-ftr-nola19.html.

Newspaper article with no author

If an article has no author, use the name of the newspaper in place of the author.

Sample reference list entry:

Globe and Mail. 1995. "Cadbury Targets Russia." May 22, 1995.