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Q. Are there plans to update Turabian? My daughter’s school insists that the students adhere to it, despite the lack of information about citing online sources—which as you can imagine make up a good portion of the sources that junior high students want to cite. The teachers appear not to have heard of CMOS, and if I allow my daughter to use CMOS 15 instead of Turabian she may be penalized for “not following the rules.” Please don’t suggest another school.
A. A revision of Turabian is in progress, but the book is at least a year away. You can check our Web site periodically to see if the new edition has been announced. Sometimes teachers prefer that their students avoid online sources and get comfortable with conventional research methods until they learn to judge the quality of information they find on the Internet, so I wouldn’t assume that your daughter’s teacher is being unreasonable. In any case, Turabian gives examples of online source citations in sections 8.141 and 11.57.
