HIST 4851, Introduction to Archival Studies

The Department of History prefers that students use Turabian citation style in your essays. This style is published in Kate L. Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. Copies of this manual are available at the Chancellor Paterson Library, or at the Bookstore. 

Citing a journal article:

Cook, Terry. 1997. What's Past is Prologue: A History of Archival Ideas Since 1898, and the Future Paradigm Shift. Archivaria 43: 17-63.

Citing an archival document:

It is important to cite archival records in a way that they can be found again by other researchers, particularly as they are usually unique items that cannot be found elsewhere.

Citations of archival records should include:

• Author or creator's name
• Title or description of item
• Date of the document's creation
• Collection name
• Box number and file number
• Repository name (all uses of archival records should credit Lakehead University Archives)

An example in Turabian style:

Memorandum from the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers, 1965, Box 4, File 2, Douglas Fisher Fonds, Lakehead University Archives.

Citing an archival resource found online:

Cite the archival record as you would ordinarily, then add the reference URL and date accessed at the end of the citation, as you would for other web resources.