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Librarian Lesson:Primary Sources, Chicago, & Other Quietly Great ThingsProf. Truax | HistoryLibrarian (Digital Resource Professional): Elaine M. Patton

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Chicago Style

Primary Sources

Library Resource

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Chicago Manual of Style

We’re not in MLA anymore, Toto.

Quick Facts

• Paper structure• MLA comparisons

The Major Paper Components

1.Title page2.The paper itself3.Bibliography

1 CMS paper

≥ 3 pages

Page Set-up

Stick with size 12, Times New Roman fontMostly double-spaced everywhereMargins: stick with 1”

Pretty MLA-ish so far…

A Subtle Difference:

Page numbering starts with your actual paperTitle page is page 0, basically

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This is the Title of Your Paper

Margaret CarterHIST 1301: United States History to 1877

January 19, 2017

~ 1/3 down

~ 2/3 down

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The Paper Itself

The usual:Left-justified (as opposed to centered)Tab/indent new paragraphs

Page numbers start with your

actual, real content.

Also, footnotes!

Citations

Notes and Bibliography system

IT’S ALWAYS THE SAME 4 THINGS:

WHO wrote it

WHAT did they call it

WHEN was it published

WHERE did it appear

Notes and Bibliography?

In-text citations use footnotes, not parentheses.

Bibliography = a Works Cited/References by any other name…

Notes on Footnotes

Numbered consecutively, even when referring to the same source multiple timesSo you have footnotes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5…Not 1, 2, 3, 1, 1, 4, 2, 5

Notes on Footnotes

First time using a source: full footnoteSecond+ times: condensed note

Notes on Footnotes

Full note: 

1. Nancy Tousley, "Tracing a History: Gisele Amantea," Canadian Art 20, no. 1 (2003): 64.

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Notes on Footnotes

Second+ times: condensed note

3. Tousley, "Tracing a History," 64.

Change page # as appropriate, of course.

Notes on Footnotes

Comparison + Example:1. Nancy Tousley, "Tracing a History: Gisele

Amantea," Canadian Art 20, no. 1 (2003): 64.2. Valerie Bunce, "Rethinking Recent

Democritization: Lessons from the Postcommunist Experience," World Politics 55, no. 2 (2003): 168, http://muse.jhu.edu/. 

3. Tousley, "Tracing a History," 64.

Notes on Footnotes: Ibid.

For when you use the same source several times in a row (try not to do this very often)

Just attach page number! Ibid., 64 Ibid., 75

Adding Footnotes

Word makes it easy!References > Insert Footnote

REPEAT AS NECESSARY.

DONE.

Putting it back in context:

Footnote numbers in superscript (added by Word):

Actual footnotes down here (also added by Word):

Click icon to add picture

OTHER USES FOR FOOTNOTES

• Adding notes and commentary!

• Suggesting additional sources to your reader!

Example from Purdue OWL, https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/11/

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Bibliography Deja Vu

It will feel just like your footnotes, but different.

Also MLA-ish, but different.

Bibliography

The hanging indent

returns!

But here’s more single

spacing!

2 lines after title

1 line after cite

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Alphabetical

Primary Sources

Grade-A Prime Steak Sources.

Event!

Primary:Closest to the source

Secondary:Pulls from the source Tertiary:

Summarizes secondary

Frame of Reference Matters!

Fictional novels = primary source when analyzing the literature

A lab research report (original findings) is a primary source for that subject

An interview with Neil DeGrasse Tyson:Secondary with regards to PlutoPrimary with regards to Tyson himself

Where to Find

Databases:ProQuest Historical

NewspapersNew York TimesHistory Study Center

The Internet (yay public domain!)[topic] primary source[topic] newspaper[topic] diary[topic] eyewitness

UPresearch.LoneStar.edu/PrimarySources

Online guide (non-exhaustive) to places to look for primary sources in.

A primary source source, if you will.

Library Resources

Beyond the books.

Databases!

Needed: library

barcode

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