How do you best use Turabian in Citation Styles to help write your paper?

Anyone have any quick tips on how to do this? I would like to just open Easypaper.com's program and begin using it or just plain old WORD to type my first ever paper in Turabian Citiation Style. I have Turabian marked but was wondering if Logos also had the ability to format the paper for me (or with me) in some way?

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Kevin Becker

Stanly, I'm not familiar with Easypaper.com so I can't comment on it. My best advice to you is to grab the style guide and make yourself familiar with Turabian. When you have Turabian marked in Logos all that means is that it will output biographical data in that style. However, double check it! If the metadata is wrong on a resource it can mess up the form and get you docked on the paper.

When I write a paper I just open Word and go, pay attention to the details, the biographical form in a footnote is different than the Works Cited/Bibliography at the end of the paper.

Rich DeRuiter

Anyone have any quick tips on how to do this? I would like to just open Easypaper.com's program and begin using it or just plain old WORD to type my first ever paper in Turabian Citiation Style. I have Turabian marked but was wondering if Logos also had the ability to format the paper for me (or with me) in some way?

Kevin is right. Turabian only formats the bibliographic (not biographic) data it has. For many resources, such as many journals, Bible dictionaries and encyclopedias, the article authors are not cited. Also, sometimes the order of information is not quite right. I haven't written an academic paper in a while, but when I did, I always had a copy of Turabian with me to double check.

The Turabian setting in L4 can't format the paper for you, it only deals with how bibliographic data outputs to footnotes/endnotes. You're on your own for formatting styles.

EDIT: Note that since the setting only outputs footnotes/endnotes, it does not do bibliographies. While you can get most bibliography info from the footnotes, you'll still have to format them properly yourself.

Alan Charles Gielczyk

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/245393#Comment_245393

I use StyleEase it is a macro plugin for Word and works great. I use the Seminary version since I am in seminary but they do have a Chicago version also. It formats the entire paper and works beautifully.

http://www.styleease.com/index.html

Stan Goworek

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/245396#Comment_245396

Thank you everyone! I may just use StyleEase going forward. Thanks!

Hapax Legomena

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/245408#Comment_245408

I've used StyleEase as well. It's a bit clunky, but it saves a lot of time.

Greg Walker

One comment indicated that Logos formatted the footnote and not the bibliography entry; you can obtain the bibliography entry by clicking the "info button" ("i" inside a circle on the far right of the resource window toolbar), then scrolling down to the citation section, click "copy", then pasting into your Word document in the bibliography entry. If you select the "merge formatting" options in Word 2010 it will keep the italics, etc, in the title (assuming it's correct in Logos), and give you the correct font, indentation, etc, in Word, assuming your Bibliography style is already correct.

I hope this helps someone.

James M. Harper

bibme.com is great...Try it out..Peace and Blssings[:D]

GregW

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/291629#Comment_291629

You can also use Zotero if you have a Firefox browser. It's free and has an associated Word plugin. I never got docked a single mark for citation styles using it. It can also cope with multiple styles, including Turabian/Chicago Manual of Style. Just Google "Zotero" to get it. It also automatically sorts out "ibids" and so on when you have consecutive references to the same source, and will automatically put a bibliography of everything you've cited at the end of your paper.