BibTeX style for Turabian-style citations?

March 8, 2009 11:30 AM

I need a comprehensive BibTeX style for the Turabian format.

My high school requires juniors to write their research papers with Turabian-style citations. We have a subscription to NoodleBib, which I'm using to compile my notes, but I'd like to dump it all into my BibTeX and let LaTeX worry about my citations so I don't have to.

Though there are many Chicago BibTeX styles, I've yet to find a comprehensive style for the Turabian format. I'd be grateful for any pointers the hive mind might have.

posted by cmyers to computers & internet (3 comments total)

I'm not really familiar with the differences between Turabian and Chicago Style, but it seems to me the only difference is that endnote/footnote numbers are superscripted. Is there anything else?

If that's the only difference, it should be really easy to adapt a Chicago BibTEX style to Turabian; it probably would only take a single command.
posted by cuetip at 2:00 PM on March 8

Its a bit odd that they are using a format typically used in historical research papers for a high school project. I shamefully dont know enough about Chicago to put down any differences, but I would suggest you take the time to do it manually, its part of the learning process.
posted by BobbyDigital at 5:08 PM on March 8

BobbyDigital: The assignment is for an Advanced Placement history course, so it makes some sense. :-)

I thank you both—I'll probably wind up adapting a Chicago style, as you suggest.
posted by cmyers at 2:01 PM on March 9