• Turabian or Chicago Style is a type of formatting used for research and paper presentation. Unlike APA or MLA styles, Turabian offers several options in terms of alignment, citations and footnotes. The University of Chicago publishes Turabian style. The creator of Turabian, Kate Larimore Turabian, created the style in 1930 as dissertation secretary of the University of Chicago. Turabrian wrote "A Manual for Writers," which has sold more than eight million copies according to the University of Chicago.
  
  

Alignment

• Turabian style allows the writer to choose full justification or left-justified sans indents with a ragged right edge. This allows the writer to format the text in a way that appeals to them.
  
  

Capitalization of Headings

• Turabian styles allow headings to have all capitalization of words or use sentence capitalization. That is, except for proper nouns, only the first word of the head is capitalized.
  
  

Dates

• Writers may choose to use the day, month, year date format or the month, day, year format for dates. Only one date format may be used per paper.
  
  

Page Numbers

• Unlike APA style, Turabian style allows only the page number in the heading on the right. If the heading must contain a title, then the page number must be in the bottom center of the page. Note that titles in the heading are optional in Turabian style.
  
  

In-Text Citations and Footnotes

• Citations in Turabian style may be formatted in-text with the last name of the author and the page number in parenthesis. Citations may be replaced by footnotes. A superscript Arabic numeral may be used in place of the citation and the numbered footnote at the bottom of the page. By allowing for footnotes, more information may be imparted without including it directly in the paper. This includes anecdotes and information that a reader may find interesting but doesn't have to know to enjoy the paper.