Chicago/Turabian Citation Style: Getting Started

The Chcago/Turabian Style has 2 variants for citations. The differences are only in the in-text citations. The bibliographies are the same.

• Notes and bibliography
  • Use Footnotes or Endnotes in the paper itself (in-text citations).
  • Include a superscript number⁴ after the section cited and use the same number at the beginning of the Footnote or Endnote.
  • 4. Jane Jones, "Writing with style," Style Writing Journal 12, no. 6 (1999): 14-33.
  • Examples of citations using notes are located under the last tab, named Notes.
• Author-date.
  • Place the in-text citation after the section cited, using the Author's last name and the date. 
  • (Johnson, 2012).

The Reference List in Chicago Style is single spaced.  The first line is out to the margin and subsequent lines are indented. Footnotes or Endnotes indent the first line and the remaining lines go all the way to the margin.  They are numbered in superscript.

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