Turabian is the popular name of a format for the writing style of research papers, (such as the arrangment and punctuation of
footnotes[?] and
bibliographies). The full title of the handbook is
A manual for writers of term papers, theses and dissertations, but it is usually referred to by the name of its author,
Kate L. Turabian[?], who developed it for the
University of Chicago. Except for a few minor differences, it is essentially the same as the
Chicago Manual of Style, but it is very different from the the styles that are preferred by other institutions such as the
MLA[?] and the
APA[?].