This book is published electronically only and is revised and updated regularly. Always use the most recent version available at http://ceulearning.ceu.hu. For corrections and additions, contact Zsuzsanna Reed at [email protected]. Last modified: 1 September 2016 For private study only, original copyrights preserved. Contents 1. FORMATTING ........................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Preparing Documents for Submission ................................................................................................. 2 1.1.1 Course Paper and Prospectus Formatting ..................................................................................... 2 Title, author, etc. ........................................................................................................................................................ 2 Margins ...................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Language .................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Font ............................................................................................................................................................................ 4 Spacing, Alignment and Indentation .......................................................................................................................... 5 1.1.2 Thesis Formatting ........................................................................................................................... 5 CEU Template ........................................................................................................................................................... 5 Margins ...................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Language .................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Font ............................................................................................................................................................................ 7 Spacing, Alignment and Indentation .......................................................................................................................... 7 Footnotes and Bibliography ....................................................................................................................................... 8 1.2 SPELL CHECK ............................................................................................................................................ 8 1.3 COMPUTER-AIDED REVISION ..................................................................................................................... 9 1.4 E-MAIL AND E-LEARNING ......................................................................................................................... 9 2. THESIS WRITING SEMINAR: ASSIGNMENTS ................................................................................ 11 2.1 CRITIQUE OF A PREVIOUS MA THESIS .................................................................................................... 11 2.2 WRITING YOUR MA THESIS OUTLINE ..................................................................................................... 12 2.3 BIBLIOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENTS ................................................................................................................ 14 2.3.1 Preliminary Bibliography ......................................................................................................................... 15 2.3.2 Annotated Bibliography ........................................................................................................................... 15 2.4 THESIS CHAPTER ..................................................................................................................................... 16 3. FOOTNOTES ............................................................................................................................................ 18 3.1 THE CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE / TURABIAN ...................................................................................... 18 3.2 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FOOTNOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES ................................................................... 18 3.3 FOOTNOTE FORMULATIONS .................................................................................................................... 19 3.4 TYPES OF FOOTNOTES ............................................................................................................................. 20 3.4.1 Complex Footnotes ....................................................................................................................... 21 3.4.2 Reference-only Footnotes ............................................................................................................. 26 Recurring References ............................................................................................................................................... 26 Multiple Citations .................................................................................................................................................... 29 3.5 FOOTNOTE FORMATTING ........................................................................................................................ 30 3.5.1 Translation of Titles ...................................................................................................................... 31 3.5.2 Transliteration .............................................................................................................................. 32 3.5.3 Quotations in Footnotes ................................................................................................................ 32 3.5.4 Medieval Names ............................................................................................................................ 33 3.6 DIFFERENT TYPES OF SOURCES IN FOOTNOTES ........................................................................................ 33 3.6.1 Books and Journal articles ........................................................................................................... 33 3.6.2 Electronic sources ........................................................................................................................ 35 Websites ................................................................................................................................................................... 35 Books accessed electronically .................................................................................................................................. 35 Article in an online journal ...................................................................................................................................... 36 Blog entry or comment ............................................................................................................................................ 37 3.6.3 Reference books ............................................................................................................................ 37 3.6.4 Classical works ............................................................................................................................. 37 3.6.5 Patrologiae and Other Frequently Used Series ......................................................................................... 38 3.6.6 Other sources ................................................................................................................................ 39 3.6.7 Quoting from a work not consulted .............................................................................................. 39 4. BIBLIOGRAPHY ..................................................................................................................................... 41 4.1 PAGE LAYOUT AND FORMATTING ........................................................................................................... 41 4.2 ELEMENTS OF BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRIES .................................................................................................. 42 4.2.1 Authors’ Names ............................................................................................................................ 42 Modern Names ......................................................................................................................................................... 42 Author’s Names in non-Latin Script: Transliteration ............................................................................................... 43 Medieval Authors’ Names ....................................................................................................................................... 43 Difficult Names ........................................................................................................................................................ 45 No author ................................................................................................................................................................