Academic writing whether theses, assignments, reports or scholarly articles often include quotes with ideas and opinions from scholars and other authors in your own writing. Knowing how to cite another person's work properly helps you to:
Use citation software to organize your own library of citations, incorporate quotes into your assignments, and compile reference lists (bibliographies) for your assignments.
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The Turabian style is used in many disciplines in humanities, social sciences, and sciences and is a variation of the Chicago style
Chicago is the preferred style of documentation for many disciplines.
Chicago Manual of Style Online
Chicago Manual of Style (OWL at Purdue University)