Writing guides you can use tonight, the odd corners of the APA, MLA, and Turabian formats (we call that series APA Obscura), the sources nursing students cite most, and what's new in PERRLA. Written by people who read the manual so you don't have to.
Turabian and Chicago are closely related, but they’re not the same thing. Here’s how the two guides differ, which citation system each one uses, and what PERRLA handles automatically when you start a Turabian paper.
In Turabian’s Notes and Bibliography system, footnotes and the bibliography work together – and confusing their formats is one of the most common student errors. This guide covers how to set up the bibliography page…
Footnotes are at the heart of the Turabian Notes and Bibliography system, and they have more rules than most students expect. This complete guide covers the full footnote format for all major source types, first…
Turabian format is one of the most common citation styles in history, theology, and other humanities disciplines, and it has more specific rules than most students realize. This guide covers everything: page setup, the…
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APA 101 is the same material in order: eighteen short lessons from page setup to the final checks before you submit.
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