CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE

Why use a research style?

Continuity across institutions As a road map for your reader to

follow the connections you’ve made in your research

To help organize your research To prevent plagiarism

Elements of Chicago Style

Paper Format Bibliography Page

In-text Citations

Chicago Paper Format

12 point font, Times New Roman 1” margins all around (check this!) Double-space entire body of paper Title page (according to instructor) All pages have page number except

title page (body of paper begins with 2)

Sample Title Page

If your instructo

r requires

a title page, it

may look something like this.

Sample First Page of Body

♦Page numbers begin with 2 (with last name) – Header/Footer Tools; Edit Header; Different First Page♦1” margins and double-spaced♦Headings for sections are allowed – centered, typed sentence style (no extra capital letters, bold, italics, etc.)♦Citations are done with footnotes or endnotes.

Bibliography

Final page of paper, includes page number

Has the word Bibliography centered at top

Alphabetized by first word in entry (generally author’s last name)

Double-spaced between entries, single-spaced within entries

First line is flush with margin; following lines are indented (hanging indent)

Sample Bibliography Page

Bibliography Entries

Book with single author:

Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

Bibliography Entries

Work in an anthology:

Holland, Cecelia. “The Revolution of 1877.” In What Ifs? Of American History, edited by Robert Cowley, 147-62. New York: Putnam, 2003.

Bibliography Entries

Work from a database service (such as NC Live). Be sure to include a DOI or URL:

Leung, Constant. “Language and Content in Bilingual Education.” Linguistics and Education 16, no. 2 (2005): 238-52. doi:10.1016/j.linged.2006.01.004

Footnotes or Endnotes

Chicago Style papers require all borrowed material to be indicated with a raised Arabic numeral and footnotes or endnotes.Footnotes refer to bibliographic information placed at the bottom of the page. Endnotes place all information on a separate page at the end of the paper.Your instructor will tell you which type of note he/she prefers. Ask if you don’t know.

Note: Chicago Style also has a format that uses parenthetical citations – this format is COMPLETELY different, so make sure you pay attention when looking at reference websites.

Sample Notes

In the text of the paper, the note number follows the end punctuation.1

At the bottom of the page, a footnote includes all the bibliographic information for the source (laid out in a specific manner – reference your handbook for where everything goes):

1.Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003), 223.

An endnote looks the same, except it is at the end of the entire paper.

In Microsoft Word, select the References tab. If you click the Insert Footnote button, Word will automatically insert the superscript number where your cursor is blinking. Word will then put the cursor at the bottom of the page where you type the bibliographic information for the source.

In Microsoft Word, select the References tab. If you click the Insert Endnote button, Word will automatically insert the superscript number where your cursor is blinking. Word will then put the cursor below a line that will continually move down as you type your paper (putting all your notes together at the end of the paper).

By clicking this arrow, you open up the dialog box as seen to the right. Here, you can make sure you use footnotes or endnotes, and you can change how the numbering of your notes appears.

Sample Notes

All of the bibliographic information only needs to be included in the note the FIRST time you mention a source. Any subsequent references are shortened, using only the author’s last name, page number:

4. Issacson, 56.

If you immediately use the same resource, you can use the abbreviation “Ibid” and the page number.

5. Ibid, 24.

Notes vs. Bibliography

Notes and bibliography entries contain the same information, but they are not exactly the same.

Footnote or Endnote Entry:1. Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An

American Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003), 223.

Bibliography Entry:Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: An

American Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

When to Cite/Use a Note

ANY borrowed material MUST have a footnote or endnote. This includes

Direct quotations Paraphrases Summaries

This is where you protect yourself from plagiarism!

Integrating Sources

Best to use paraphrases and summaries more than quotations

Use quotations sparingly – integrate them into your sentences, don’t just drop them in.

Common way to do this is to mention the author. Smith indicates that the war was not one of

aggression… O’Connor states that women “have played

significant roles during war time…”

Special Quotations

If your quotation is ten lines or more, set it off by indenting the entire quotation five spaces from the left margin. No quotation marks are needed. Footnote or endnote follows end punctuation.

Resources

A Writer’s Reference LAC Your instructor Purdue OWL:https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/12/