Gateway Seminary has specific Style Guides for different degree programs. These guides help you know what your instructors expect to see when you turn in your papers. We have two Style Guides: Turabian for all Certificate, Diploma, Masters and DMin students, and the Academic Graduate Studies (Chicago/SBL) for ThM and PhD students. Both Style Guides and all appropriate templates are updated when a new edition of the Turabian Manual of Style, Chicago Manual of Style or SBL Style Handbook are published. The current versions we work with are Chicago 17th edition, SBL 2nd edition and Turabian 9th edition.
The library also provides Templates (in Word) for all required papers, including all Masters papers; DMin seminar papers, prospectuses and project reports; and ThM/PhD seminar papers, prospectuses and theses/dissertations.
Turabian Style is the physical formatting, margins (indentation for paragraphs, footnotes, page number placement and numerals, etc.) and required information and style for citations and bibliographic entries. It is required for all courses in the Certificate, Diploma, Masters and DMin programs at Gateway Seminary. This guide provides information about formatting requirements, sample papers and other resources, and Gateway Seminary's Turabian Templates, which will make it easier for you to turn in papers with correct Turabian format.
The Academic Graduate Studies program uses a combination of Chicago, SBL and additional sources for formatting, citations, abbreviations and names. Chicago is the main source for formatting and citations, with SBL as a secondary source for complex theological resources and title abbreviations. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church is a tertiary source for determining the standardized spelling of names from medieval times and earlier.
The Turabian and AGS Templates provided here are developed and updated by the library. They will help you make sure that margins, headings, paragraphs, footnotes, bibliographic entries, page numbers, etc., are correctly formatted (placement & spacing) in your paper. There are explanations on how the templates work on the appropriate pages of this guide. Please take the time to read and watch these explanations, as they will make it much easier for you to use the template chosen.
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