34b Formatting {em}Chicago{/em} manuscripts
Contents:
Notes
Bibliography
- Title page. About halfway down the title page, center the full title of your project and your name. Unless otherwise instructed, at the bottom of the page also list the course name, the instructor’s name, and the date submitted. Do snot type a number on this page. Check to see if your instructor has a preference on whether to count the title page as part of the text (if so, the first text page will be page 2) or as part of the frontmatter (if so, the first text page will be page 1).
- Margins and spacing. Leave one-inch margins on all sides. Double-space the entire text, including block quotations. Single-space notes and bibliographic entries, but double-space between entries.
- Page numbers. Number all pages (except the title page) in the upper right-hand corner. Also use a short title or your name before page numbers.
- Long quotations. For a long quotation, indent one-half inch (or five spaces) from the left margin and do not use quotation marks. Chicago defines a long quotation as one hundred words or eight lines, though you may set off shorter quotes for emphasis.
- Headings. Chicago style allows, but does not require, headings.
- Visuals. Visuals (photographs, drawings, charts, graphs, and tables) should be placed as near as possible to the relevant text. (See 13e for guidelines on incorporating visuals into your text.) Tables should be labeled Table, numbered, and captioned. All other visuals should be labeled Figure (abbreviated Fig.), numbered, and captioned. Remember to refer to each visual in your text, pointing out how it contributes to the point(s) you are making.
Notes
Notes can be footnotes (each one appearing at the bottom of the page on which its citation appears) or endnotes (in a list on a separate page at the end of the text). (Check your instructor’s preference.) Indent the first line of each note one-half inch and begin with a number, a period, and one space before the first word. All remaining lines of the entry are flush with the left margin. Single-space footnotes and endnotes, with a double space between entries.
Use superscript numbers (1) to mark citations in the text. Place the superscript number for each note just after the relevant quotation, sentence, clause, or phrase. Type the number after any punctuation mark except the dash, and do not leave a space before the superscript. Number citations sequentially throughout the text. When you use signal phrases to introduce source material, note that Chicago style requires you to use the present tense (citing Bebout’s studies, Meier points out . . .).
IN THE TEXT
Sweig argues that Castro and Che Guevara were not the only key players in the Cuban Revolution of the late 1950s.19
IN THE FIRST NOTE REFERRING TO THE SOURCE
19. Julia Sweig, Inside the Cuban Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), 9.
After giving complete information the first time you cite a work, shorten additional references to that work: list only the author’s last name, a comma, a short version of the title, a comma, and the page number. If you refer to the same source cited in the previous note, include only the author's last name and the page number.
IN FIRST AND SUBSEQUENT NOTES
19. Julia Sweig, Inside the Cuban Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), 9.
20. Sweig, 13.
21. Ferguson, “Comfort of Being Sad,” 63.
22. Sweig, Cuban Revolution, 21.
Bibliography
Begin the list of sources on a separate page after the main text and any endnotes. Continue numbering pages consecutively. Center the title Bibliography (without underlining, italics, or quotation marks) one inch below the top of the page. Begin each entry at the left margin. Indent the second and subsequent lines of each entry one-half inch, or five spaces.
List sources alphabetically by authors’ last names or by the first major word in the title if the author is unknown. Italicize titles of books and periodicals, and enclose titles of short works in quotation marks. See an example of a Chicago-style bibliography.
In the bibliographic entry, include the same information as in the first note for that source, but omit the page reference. Give the first author’s last name first, followed by a comma and the first name; separate the main elements of the entry with periods rather than commas; and do not enclose the publication information for books in parentheses.
IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sweig, Julia. Inside the Cuban Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.