Hege Library & Learning Technologies

HIST 402: Research Seminar

Research seminar for history majors taught by Zhihong Chen (Spring 2021).

Zotero for Citation Management

Zotero is a tool to organize and manage your sources throughout your research process to more easily produce your citations and final bibliography. A step by step guide is available and includes links and contact for further assistance.

Citing Archival Sources

Unpublished sources may not have all the elements you are used to including for publications but that doesn't mean you don't include them in you list of works cited.  Citations for an archival items usually include the following:

Collection name (example:  Mary Mendenhall Hobbs Papers)

Repository name and institution (example: Quaker Archives, Guilford College)

Repository location (example: Greensboro, N.C.)

You also need to note other details, such as the item name and date, when quoting for pieces within a larger collection.  For example, the author and date of a letter.  Depending upon the particular collection, you may also need to include a series title and/or folder title.

[item], [folder title], [series title (if any)], [collection name], [accession or manuscript number], Quaker Archives, Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C.

Chicago Style Guide

For Chicago Style citations, please consult the Chicago Manual of Style or A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations in the library catalog, and we recommend the Purdue OWL online guide.

Tutorial Videos from Atomic Learning (log in with your Guilford credentials):

See the full Chicago/Turabian tutorial here.

Citing Sources in Turabian

Guide to Citing with Turabian and Chicago

Citation Builder (NC State University) - APA, MLA, CBE, Chicago

Print Style Guide
Kate L. Turabian’s Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
Ref LB2369 .T8 2007