For Style, References and Bibliography, please use Turabian (Kate Larimore Turabian, 1893-1987). I encourage the use of footnotes rather than endnotes. Place bibliographical information on separate pages at the end of your paper. Pay attention to the different styles for organizing footnote information and bibliographical information. For consistency purposes I encourage you to use the Times Roman Font Collection, in 12 point. Use italics for the older typesetting underline feature.

 

Primary Sources: References to Bible Books, Chapters and Verses should be included in the body text in parentheses not in footnotes, eg. (Gen 32:8). Abbreviate the Bible book. Note the punctuation with quotation marks. "And there was evening and there was morning, the first day" (Gen 1:5).  If it is important, you may indicate in a footnote which translation you are employing. 


Note punctuation, quotation marks and numbered note at the end of sentences:
"And there was evening and there was morning, the first day" (Gen 1:5).


Note punctuation of commas and quotation marks in the body of your text, in footnotes and bibliographical notations.
Michael Kolarcik calls the book "The Wisdom of Solomon," but also "The Book of Wisdom."


With a footnote numerical notation, note the order of punctuation: eg.

The reference is "The Wisdom of Solomon,"7 but on other occasions it is called "The Book of Wisdom."8

(The European style is usually the opposite:  ".    ", so please do NOT use that style at the University of Toronto)


But note the colon and semi-colon are placed after quotation marks:   ";  ":


Indent your paragraphs, with no extra space between paragraphs. Make sure your pages are numbered.


(A new digital model for writing has developed whereby paragraphs are not indented but separated by a line-space. But that form should only be used with single spacing)


The body text should be double-spaced.  Footnotes and bibliography should be single spaced with a single line-space separating the entries.


Always provide a cover page with the relevant information.

You can access the quick guide to Turabian from the University of Chicago
    < http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/turabian/turabian_citationguide.html >


or the more complete guide to the Chicago Manual Style
   <http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html>


Here is an example of Turabian from the University of Toronto website on writing: <http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/document.html>

Writing at the University of Toronto

U of T Writing


I would encourage you to use this fine site at the University of Toronto for direction on writing essays.


When Hamlet protests to his mother, "Leave wringing of your hands" (III.iv.35),1 he is naming a universally recognizable gesture. As Singh says, similar broad physical movements are "still the most direct way of indicating inner turmoil."2 Zygmundi confirms their continuing usefulness in contemporary productions of other sixteenth-century plays.3 Renaissance audiences would have recognized hand-wringing as a signal for inner distress,4 specifically for a condition that the Elizabethan author Reynolds named "ague of the spirits."5

 

Footnotes

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    1 William Shakespeare, Hamlet, in The Norton Introduction to Literature, ed. Alison Booth, J. Paul Hunter, Kelly J. Mays, and Jerome Beaty, 8th ed. (New York: W.W. Norton, 2001), 996. Subsequent parenthetical references will refer to this edition.

 

    2Jasmine Singh, "Renovating Hamlet for Contemporary Audiences," UTQ 53:3 (Summer 1998): 434.

 

    3David Zygmundi, "Acting Out the Moralities for Today's Audiences," Termagant Society Online, 30 Nov. 2001 <http://www.nouniv.ca/soc/termagant/moral.html>.

 

    4Joan Brown, The Renaissance Stage (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996), 111.

 

    5Peter Reynolds, The Player's Chapbooke, 1587, qtd. in Aline Mahieu, Acting Shakespeare (Toronto: Gibson, 1998), 69.


Note that titles of  articles in journals, chapters in collection books, or entries in dictionaries and encyclopedias are placed in quotation marks, and the comma precedes the closing quotation mark, see note 2 above as an example. Notice in Singh's title the name Hamlet was italicized only because it was so in the original title.


For bibliographical entries:

The full article title, which is followed by a period, should be placed within quotation marks. Place the period within the quotation marks. Use headline-style capitalization for the article title. If the title or subtitle ends with an exclamation point or question mark, do not place a period or comma after it. If the article title is in a foreign language, use sentence-style capitalization in accordance with that language's conventions. You may include an English translation of a foreign language title in brackets, outside of the quotations that surround the untranslated title.

Exclamation or Question marks in titles:
citation        Smith, Donald. Absolom, Absolom! New York: Fortress, 2012.
footnote      5Donald Smith, Absolom, Absolom! (New York:  Fortress, 2012), 24.
entry          

but in subsequent shortened
footnote
entry            6Smith, Absolom, Absolom!, 82.

Foreign language titles:
citation        Smith, John, and Jane Doe. "Los estudios en teología hispánica." [Studies in Spanish Theology] Theological Studies 12 (2009): 78-93.

footnote     5John Smith and Jane Doe, "Los estudios en teología hispánica," [Studies in Spanish Theology] Theological Studies 12 (2009): 79.

 entry

Note that when you footnote an article or a book more than once, you may abbreviate the information given. For instance, if the second footnote reference above is repeated, you could simply write:
   

     Jasmine Singh, "Renovating Hamlet,"  435. If the surname of the author is unique for your paper just use the SURNAME and if only one work is being referenced by that author you need not even mention the title. So your footnote could be as short as    

    Singh, 435.


The guiding principle here should be to facilitate your reader in identifying your sources. Do not overdo information so as to clutter your footnotes with repeated information, and do not confuse your readers or leave them in the dark with too little information.
 

Remember, for first references you must give full bibliographical information. 

I prefer not to use Ibid., but rather a short reference to the work, since you have already given full bibliographical notation at its first instance. If you use Ibid. [for ibidem] do not italicize. Use Ibid. for a reference to the same page of the work or if a new page is being cited, Ibid., 25. Try not to use Ibid. when the previous reference is located on another page of your text, for this would force the reader to look back for the last reference and that as you probably know can be quite frustrating for a reader, and this is why I prefer to employ a shortened version of the title rather than Ibid., since in editing longer papers your pagination may change significantly.

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Bibliography

 

Brown, Joan. The Renaissance Stage. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.

 

Mahieu, Aline. Acting Shakespeare. Toronto: Gibson, 1998.

 

Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. In The Norton Introduction to Literature, ed. Alison Booth, J. Paul Hunter, Kelly J. Mays, and Jerome Beaty, 8th ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001. 941-1033.

 

Sennett, Richard, and Jonathan Cobb. The Hidden Injuries of Class. New York: Vintage Books, 1972.

 

Wordsworth, William.  Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Edited by E. de Selincourt and H. Darbishire. 2nd ed.  5 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952.

 

Singh, Jasmine. "Renovating Hamlet for Contemporary Audiences." University of Toronto Quarterly 57:3 (Summer 1998): 431-42.

 

Zygmundi, David. "Acting Out the Moralities for Today's Audiences." Termagant Society. 30 Nov. 2001 <http://www.nouniv.ca/soc/termagant/moral.html>.


 

Note the following types of entry for bibliographical references. Notice how in bibliographical entries, the various types of information are separated by periods. In footnotes the various types of information are separated by commas.

 

(Books with single author, two authors and more than two authors)

 

Mahieu, Aline. Acting Shakespeare. Toronto: Gibson, 1998.

 

Sennett, Richard, and Jonathan Cobb. The Hidden Injuries of Class. New York: Vintage Books, 1972.
 

Footnote

reference   Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb, The Hidden Injuries of Class (New York: Vintage Books, 1972), 27.

Notice in the bibliographical reference a comma precedes the and, but in the footnote there is no comma placed before and.

 

Schwartz, David, Steve Ryan, and Fred Wostbrock. The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows. New York: Facts on File, 1995.


(Note well that the first author's name is given by SURNAME, NAMES, whereas all subsequent authors are given by NAMES SURNAME. Some publishers, especially European, prefer to capitalize the surnames and even insist on small caps so as to make the surname clear.)

(Books that are translated)

 

Westermann, Claus. Praise and Lament in the Psalms. Translated by Keith R. Crim and Richard N. Soulen. Edinburgh: John Knox, 1981.

 

Footnote

reference

1Claus Westermann, Praise and Lament in the Psalms,  translated by Keith R. Crim and Richard N. Soulen (Edinburgh: John Knox, 1981), 120-122.

 

(Books that are translated with optional reference to the original title, publisher and date. Personally I think you should always give the title and date of publication of the original title. If you do not,  readers will not know when the ideas you are referencing originated. )

 

Westermann, Claus. Praise and Lament in the Psalms. Translated by Keith R. Crim and Richard N. Soulen [Lob und Klage in den Psalmen. Edinburgh: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1977]. Edinburgh: John Knox, 1981.

 

(Edited Books)

 

Clifford, Richard J., and John J. Collins, eds. Creation in the Biblical Traditions. The Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series 24. Washington, DC: The Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1992.

 

(Article or Chapters in collected works)

 

Batto, Bernard F. “Creation Theology in Genesis.” In Creation in the Biblical Traditions, ed. Richard J. Clifford and John J. Collins, CBQ MS 24, 16-38. Washington, DC: The Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1992.

Footnote

reference

2Bernard F. Batto, “Creation Theology in Genesis,” in Creation in the Biblical Traditions, ed. Richard J. Clifford and John J. Collins, CBQ MS (Washington, DC: The Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1992), 16-38.

 

[Notice the place where page numbers are noted for bibliographical reference in chapters of books: immediately after the author or editor, whereas in the footnote they are given after the publisher and year as in any reference to a book. ]

Betlyon, John W. “Coinage.” The Anchor Bible Dictionary. Edited by David Noel Freedman. Vol 1, 1076-1089. New York: Doubleday, 1992. 

 

Kolarcik, Michael. “The Book of Wisdom.” The New Interpreter’s Bible. Vol. 5. 437-600. Nashville: Abingdon, 1997.

 

Footnote

reference

2Michael Kolarcik, “The Book of Wisdom,” The New Interpreter’s Bible, vol. 5 (Nashville: Abingdon, 1997), 437-600.


[Notice that when page numbers are provided in both footnotes or bibliographical references for articles in journals a colon precedes the page numbers, (1985): 234-323.   Whereas for books or articles collected in books a comma is used for footnotes and of course a period is used for bibliographical references to introduce page numbers.]

(Book published electronically)

If a book is available in more than one format, cite the version you consulted. For books consulted online, list a URL; include an access date only if one is required by your publisher or discipline. If no fixed page numbers are available, you can include a section title or a chapter or other number.

Online sources that are analogous to print sources (such as articles published in online journals, magazines, or newspapers) should be cited similarly to their print counterparts but with the addition of a URL and an access date. For online or other electronic sources that do not have a direct print counterpart (such as an institutional Web site or a Weblog), give as much information as you can in addition to the URL and access date.

1. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (New York: Penguin Classics, 2007), Kindle edition.
2. Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, eds., The Founders’ Constitution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), accessed February 28, 2010, http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.
3. Austen, Pride and Prejudice.
4. Kurland and Lerner, Founder’s Constitution, chap. 10, doc. 19.

Bibliography
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. New York: Penguin Classics, 2007. Kindle edition.
Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. The Founders’ Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Accessed February 28, 2010. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.


Give References to all your sources, whether they are direct or indirect, exact quotes or paraphrased ideas.

1) If you quote exact words from an article or a book, you must indicate the copied text  in "quotation marks" and give the exact reference in a footnote.  If the text you are quoting is longer than four lines, indent the text on both margins in single-space and give the exact reference in a footnote. [The issue of the length of a quote to indent rather than to put in quotations is, for the most part, a matter of aesthetics. Remember, the issue here is to help the reader identify what is your writing and what is not].

2) If you are borrowing ideas from another author, but formulating the train of thought in your own words, you must still provide an exact reference to your sources in a footnote. This is not only useful and necessary for other readers, but for yourself, especially in years to come when you will want to know the sources for your own ideas.

Failure to indicate copied text in quotation marks (or indented) with the exact reference in a footnote, or failure to give the reference to borrowed ideas  is considered dishonest and is completely unacceptable.  Any work which shows evidence of any form of plagiarism will be rejected.

Good practise in referencing the sources of your ideas will save you time and give you a solid framework for sustained argumentation.

M. Kolarcik