Understanding Chicago Style’s Main Features Creating Footnotes in Word

UNDERSTANDING CHICAGO STYLE’S MAIN FEATURESCREATING FOOTNOTES IN WORDFORMATTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION WITHIN FOOTNOTES

Documenting Sources Using Chicago Style for Humanities and History Courses

Slides by Candice ShockleyVoice by Victoria Brieske

Main Features

A title page is generally not required. Your name, the course name, etc. are included on the first page of text.

Footnotes are used rather than parenthetical citations.

A separate bibliography page is also not needed for papers. Instead, complete bibliographic is provided in the footnotes.

Formatting Text

1-inch margins on all four edges of each page

12-point Times New Roman typeface

Doubled-spaced text

Single-spaced footnotes

Creating Footnotes in Microsoft Word

Choose “References” Tab

Choose “Insert Footnote”

Creating Footnotes continued…A superscripted number will appear where the cursor was placed, along with a corresponding number at the bottom of the page.

Creating Footnotes cont…

Format for Books

Single-Author Books First name Last Name, Title (Place of Publication: Publisher’s name, date of

publication), page number1.Thomas Keneally, Abraham Lincoln: A Life (New York: Penguin Group, 2008), 34.

Shortened note for subsequent references: 4.Keneally, Abraham Lincoln, 37.

Multiple Authors• List all names in standard order, then cite as you would a single author book. The

shortened form of this type of citation is the same as for a single-author book.

1. J. B. Harley and James K. Hogue, The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography, ed. Paul Laxton (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), 132-33.

NOTE: If there are 4 or more authors, list only the first author’s name, followed by et al.

Documenting Lecture Notes

First reference:1.Hal Smith, Lecture Notes, week 1.

• All Subsequent References:

4. Smith, Lecture Notes, week 1.

Primary Sources Secondary Sources

Original documents that are used as evidence to support ideas.

• EX: letters, diaries, films, manuscripts, government documents

Books and articles that analyze primary sources.

• EX: articles in scholarly journals, specialized encyclopedia entries

Primary and Secondary Sources

Documenting Primary Sources within Secondary Sources

Use of Ibidem in Footnotes

Definition: Ibidem means “in the same place.”Abbreviation: Ibid. Purpose: To shorten a note that cites the same

source that is cited immediately preceding the note.

1.Thomas Keneally, Abraham Lincoln: A Life (New York: Penguin Group (USA, 2008), 34.

2. Ibid., 48. 3. Ibid. **NOTE: Footnote 3 signifies that the citation is not only from

the same source, but comes from the same page as the preceding note.

Resources

Chicago Manual/Turabian Manual Quick Reference Guide http://www.uhv.edu/ac/style/pdf/Turabian.Quick.Guide.pdf

Kate L. Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 7th ed., rev. ed. is the most current.