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MTSM Citation Guide

A guide to using the notes-bibliography style of Turabian citation at MTSM. Updated September 2025.

General comments on authors, editors, and translators in citations

Follow these instructions if you have more than one author/editor/translator. Using Zotero will automate all but the last of these. 

  • For sources with four or more authors/editors, list only the first in the footnote; the others will be designated by “et al.” In the bibliography, all authors/editors are listed.
  • Editor and translator are abbreviated in footnotes (ed., trans.).
  • If there is an author, editor/translator follows the title. In the bibliography, insert Edited by or Translated by before the editor/translator names.
  • If there is no author, editor/translator precedes the title. In the bibliography, add the abbreviation ed., eds. (for editors), or trans. following the name(s).
  • You may also have a title with no author/editor/translator. In the bibliography, list authorless works in alphabetical order by title. When alphabetizing titles, ignore initial articles: the, an, or a.

Examples

[F]

4. Peter Hünermann et al., eds., Compendium of Creeds, Definitions, and Declarations on Matters of Faith and Morals, 43rd ed. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2012), 123.

5. Enrico Mazza, The Celebration of the Eucharist: The Origin of the Rite and the Development of Its Interpretation, trans. Matthew J. O’Connell (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1999), 115.

[S]

6. Hünermann et al., Compendium of Creeds, Definitions, and Declarations on Matters of Faith and Morals, 124.

7. Mazza, The Celebration of the Eucharist, 116.

[B]

Hünermann, Peter, Helmut Hoping, Robert L. Fastiggi, Anne Englund Nash, and Heinrich Denzinger, eds. Compendium of Creeds, Definitions, and Declarations on Matters of Faith and Morals. 43rd ed. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2012.

Mazza, Enrico. The Celebration of the Eucharist: The Origin of the Rite and the Development of Its Interpretation. Translated by Matthew J. O’Connell. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1999.

In Zotero

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