Chicago
Style Guide
Chicago
has different formatting styles for endnotes/footnotes and
a bibliography. Be sure you are using the correct guide for
the
citations you
are writing. While
notes and a bibliography contain essentially the same information,
the forms differ in these ways:
- Notes
are numbered; bibliography sources are alphabetized.
- Notes
use commas and parentheses to separate items; a bibliography
uses periods.
- Notes
indicate specific pages from which you took information;
Bibliography lists the entire book or chapter from which
you took the information.
- The
first line of a bibliography entry begins at the left hand
margin and the second, etc. lines are indented. In the note,
the first line is indented, and the next line is not.
Click
here for the endnote/footnote guide.
Click
here for the bibliography guide.
Page Formatting Conventions
Title Page
- title
(centered on the top of the page)
- name
(centered in the middle of the page)
- class
(centered at the bottom of the page)
- teacher's
name (centered one line under class)
- date
(centered one line under teacher's name)
Starting
with the second page, in the top right hand corner, put your
last name, followed by the page number.
- Use
your header/footer command to create this effect.
- The
Bibliography page should be part of this last name, page number
system.
Citing Sources
1. Within the paper
- To
acknowledge a source in your paper, place a superscript number
(raised above the line) immediately after the end punctuation
of a sentence containing the quotation, paraphrase, or summary—like
this.1 This source will be cited in your endnotes/footnotes.
- Do
not put any punctuation after the number.
- Do
not reuse a number: continue numbering in numerical order
until you finish the end of the paper.
2. At
the end of the paper
- Make
a separate page for your endnotes at the end of your paper.
At the top of the page, in the center of the first line,
call the page "Notes".
- Do
not call it Endnotes—it’s obvious it’s
at the end
3.
Bibliography
The last page of your paper
is where you list all
of your sources
consulted
in the
paper,
whether or not you quoted
or paraphrased
them.
- Print
your last name and page number in
the top
right hand
corner of the
page
- Center "Bibliography" at
the top of the page
(don't put it in quotation marks,
use bold, underline
it, or use
a different
font)
- List
entries in alphabetical order (entries
with no author are alphabetized
by
title, don't
number your sources)
- Double
space between sources
- Indent
each entry after
the first
line
These
guidelines have been customized for Menlo School students by Maura
Sincoff, Writing Center Director; Marta Grajeda, History Teacher;
Cathy Rettberg, Head Librarian.
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