Turabian Citations for Electronic & Primary Sources
Web sites:
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22. Ken Dvorak, "The Johnstown Flood," America in the 1890s: A Chronology,
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/johnstown/johns.html (accessed August 13,
2008).
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Dvorak, Ken. "The Johnstown Flood." America in the 1890s: A Chronology.
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/johnstown/johns.html (accessed August
13, 2008).
On-Line Periodical from Database:
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Mason Stokes, "Someone's in the Garden with Eve: Race, Religion, and the
American Fall," American Quarterly 50, no. 4 (1998): 724, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/
american_quarterly/v050/50.4stokes.html, (accessed August 13, 2008).
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Stokes, Mason. "Someone's in the Garden with Eve: Race, Religion, and the American
Fall." American Quarterly 50, no. 4 (1998): 718-744. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/
american_quarterly/v050/50.4 stokes.html (accessed August 13, 2008).
Electronic Journal (E-Journal):
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John R. Black, "Tradition and Transformation in the Cult of St. Guthlac in Early
Medieval England," The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe,
issue 10 (May 2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/black.html (accessed August 13,
2008).
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Black, John R. "Tradition and Transformation in the Cult of St. Guthlac in Early Medieval
England.” The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe issue
10 (May 2007). http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/black.html (accessed August 13,
2008).
Correspondence:
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Christopher Columbus to the King and Queen of Spain, 1494, Internet Medieval
Sourcebook, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus2.html (accessed July 28,
2008).
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Columbus, Christopher. “To the King and Queen of Spain, 1494.” Internet Medieval
Sourcebook. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus2.html (accessed July
28, 2008).
Government Document
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Congress, House, Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Early
Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, Examining Local Perspectives on the No
Child Left Behind Act: Field Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood,
Elementary and Secondary Education, 110th Cong., 1st sess., 14 May 2007.
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U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Early
Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education. Examining Local Perspectives on
the No Child Left Behind Act: Field Hearing before the Subcommittee on Early
Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education. 110th Cong., 1st sess., 14 May
2007.
Non-Published Sources
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A Pennsylvanian, “To the Electors of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1799,” Library of
Congress American Memory Project Online, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.1490240a
(accessed July 28, 2008).
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A Pennsylvanian. To the Electors of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1799. Library of Congress
American Memory Project Online. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.1490240a
(accessed July 28, 2008).
When in doubt about citation format for a source…
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elimination.
Step 2: Ask your professor for his or her opinion on what citation category best fits your
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sources you used. Sometimes formats have to be finessed to fit a source and this
means that you should look at all of the bits of information you have from a source
(author, date, title, location, etc.) and then choose the format that will allow you to
include all of those bits of information so that your reader can go look at the sources
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