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Forces: Imperialism: Citation

Guide created for Forces that Shaped the Modern World, Winter 21-22 unit on Imperialism.

Citing in Chicago/Turabian Style

History courses at Lawrenceville require students to use Chicago/Turabian Citation Style.

In Chicago/Turabian Style, you will need to create two citations for each source:

  • A full bibliographic citation (goes at the end of your paper on the Bibliography page; your sources should be listed in alphabetical order by author)
  • A footnote (added at the end of the page where the source is referenced)

Only cite the information that is available to you. If you cannot identify a piece of the template [e.g. an author or date], leave it out rather than making it up.

For additional help with citation, use the libchat feature in this research guide or stop into the library to work with a librarian. 

Citation and Bibliography Tools

For help with Noodletools:

How to Avoid Plagiarism

Plan your paper:

  • Use your own ideas.
  • Use the ideas of others sparingly- only to support or reinforce your own argument.

Take Effective Notes:

  • Use the Noodletools notecards tool or Google docs

  • Include complete citation information 

Cite properly:

  • Use quotation marks when directly stating another person’s work.

  • When to cite?

    • When using a direct quote

    • Paraphrasing an idea from a text

    • Summarizing a text 

    • Using facts, information, and data, anything that is not common knowledge

    • When in doubt, cite! 

  • Cite while you write -- do not leave your citations until the last minute.