This document provides the standards for research paper style and formatting for students in master’s and DMin degree programs (except Th.M. and Ph.D.). It updates and supersedes all previous standard. This standard is built around Turabian 9th edition, which is the Gateway Seminary standard. All students should follow this standard unless a professor instructs you to do otherwise. D.Min. students are advised that this applies to all seminar papers. DMin templates for prospectus and project reports are in the DMin section of this guide.

2 page summary of Turabian formatting requirements (PDF)

Footnote and bibliographic examples for most sources used in papers.

This paper adheres to Gateway Seminary's Turabian 9th edition requirements in all aspects, including footnotes and bibliographic entries.

Discussion of plagiarism and how to avoid it, taken from Turabian's 7th ed.

Alternate source for all types of citations, includes electronic citation examples.