• Basic Guide to Chicago Style 

     Use the following Sample Chicago Style Paper to guide your formatting and citation.

     

    Cover Page: 

    1. Title of the paper should be in the center of the page 

    2. Date should be at the bottom of the page 

    3. Author’s name should be evenly spaced between the Title and Date 

    4. The Cover page should not include a page number. However, subsequent pages should include the author’s last name followed by the page number in the top right corner.

    5. Paper should use 1.5 spacing! 

     

    When to use footnotes (or endnotes): 

    1. To give the source of a direct quotation 

    2. To give the source of somebody else’s paraphrased thoughts or insights 

    3. To give the source of data i.e. birthrates, divorce rates, population growth, etc. 

    4. To provide additional information that would otherwise clutter the main text. These so-called “content footnotes” should be used sparingly. 

     

    How to use footnotes (or endnotes):

    1. WORD:
      1. Click the “references” tab on the top toolbar.
      2. Click the “Insert Footnote” button, the footnote will automatically populate at the end of the page.
    2. GOOGLE DOCS
      1. Click the “Insert” drop down from the top toolbar.
      2. Select “Footnote” from the drop down, the footnote will automatically populate at the end of the page.

     

    General Guidelines for footnotes (or endnotes): 

    1. The first citation must include all the publishing information that is required; this same information is repeated in the bibliography. All subsequent references should be shortened (see examples. You’ll be using Ibid!) 

    2. Use footnotes or endnotes, although only one style must be used in a single paper 

    3. Note numbers appear at the end of sentences, after any punctuation. Notes are numbered consecutively throughout the entire paper 

    4. Do not footnote information that is assumed to be common knowledge. Rule of thumb: If you find the same information in more than two or three different sources, you do not need to use a footnote. 

    5. Your bibliography should be provided on the final page of your research paper. List any sources cited throughout your paper in full (as shown in example)  

    6. Rules of plagiarism apply! 

     

    Examples for citation: 

    **additional examples may be located at The Chicago Manual of Style Online **

     

     Book with 1 Author: 

     

    Footnote/Endnote: 

     

    1John Hope Franklin. George Washington Williams: A Biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985, 54. 

     

    1(Authors Name). (Title of the book *should be in Italics*). (City of publishing): (Publisher), (Date of publishing), (page number). 

     

    Bibliography Entry: 

     

    Franklin, John Hope. George Washington Williams: A Biography. Chicago: University Press, 1985. 

     

    (Authors Name). (Title of the book *should be in Italics*). (City of publishing): (Publisher), (Date of publishing). 

     

    Book with Multiple Authors  

    **NOTE:  If there are only 2 authors, list their names in alphabetical order by last name and separate using “and”. If there are 3 authors, list their names in alphabetical order by last name, separate the first 2 using a comma and the last using “and”. If there are more than 3 authors, list the first name in alphabetical order by last name followed by “et. al”** 

     

    Footnote/Endnote: 

     

    2Cheryl E. Martin and Mark Wasserman. Latin America and its People: To 1830. Longman:  Pearson Education, Inc., 2008, 83. 

     

    2(Author’s Names in alphabetical order by last name). (Title of the book *should be in Italics*). (City of publishing): (Publisher), (Date of publishing), (page number). 

     

    Bibliography Entry: 

     

    Martin, Cheryl E. and Wasserman, Mark. Latin America and its People: To 1830. Longman:  Pearson Education, Inc., 2008. 

     

    (Authors Names in alphabetical order by last name). (Title of the book *should be in Italics*). (City of publishing): (Publisher), (Date of publishing). 

     

    Component part by one author in a work by another 

     

    Footnote/Endnote: 

     

    3Mary Higdon Beech, ”The Domestic Realm in the Lives of Hindu Women in Calcutta,” in Separate Worlds: Studies of Purdah in South Asia, ed. Hanna Papnek and Gail Minault. Delhi: Chanakya, 1982, 115. 

     

    3(Author’s Name), “(Title of entry *should be in quotations*,)” in (Title of book *should be in italics*) ed. (Names of the editors). (City of publishing): (Publisher), (Date of publishing), (page number). 

     

    Bibliography Entry: 

     

    Beech, Mary Higdon, ”The Domestic Realm in the Lives of Hindu Women in Calcutta,” in Separate Worlds: Studies of Purdah in South Asia, ed. Hanna Papnek and Gail Minault. Delhi: Chanakya, 1982 

     

    (Author’s Name), “(Title of entry *should be in quotations*,)” in (Title of book *should be in italics*) ed. (Names of the editors). (City of publishing): (Publisher), (Date of publishing), (page number). 

     

    Article in a journal/database 

    **NOTE: If your journal is in print, include the page number. If your journal is online, include the web address.** 

     

    Footnote/Endnote: 

     

    4Richard Jackson. “Running down the Escalator: Regional Inequality in Papua New Guinea,” Australian Geographer  (May 1979): 180. 

     

    4(Author’s Name). “(Title of article *should be in quotations*),” (Title of Database *should be in italics*) (Date of publication): (page number or web address) 

     

    Bibliography Entry: 

     

    Jackson, Richard. . “Running down the Escalator: Regional Inequality in Papua New Guinea,” Australian Geographer  (May 1979): 175-184. 

     

    (Author’s Name). “(Title of article *should be in quotations*),” (Title of Database *should be in italics*) (Date of publication): (page number or web address) 

     

     Online sources 

     

    Footnote/Endnote 

     

     5“McDonald’s Happy Meal Toy Safety Facts,” McDonald’s Corporation, accessed July 19, 2008, http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/factsheets.html. 

     

    5”(Title of the Article *should be in quotations*),” (Author), accessed (the day you  most recently accessed the information), (web address). 

     

    Bibliography Entry 

     

    McDonald’s Corporation. “McDonald’s Happy Meal Toy Safety Facts.” Accessed July 19, 2008. http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/factsheets.html. 

     

    (Author). “(Title of Article *should be quotations*).” Accessed (the day you most recently accessed the information). (Web address).  

     

    Ibid 

     **NOTE: If a work is cited in two notes in a row, the second and subsequent notes use “ibid”. (An abbreviation of the latin word ibidem, meaning “in the same place”). If the page or pages are the same as in the previous note, “ibid” alone will suffice; if not, the page numbers are added as normal. Note that “ibid” is not italicized as a foreign word.** 

     

    1Alice Conklin. A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1997, 51. 

     

    2Ibid. 

     

    3Ibid., 214. 

     

    4William B. Cohen. The French Encounter with Africans: White Response to Blacks, 1530-1880. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003, 103. 

     

    5Conklin, 1997, 190. 

     

    6Cohen, 2003, 19. 

     

    7Ibid.