Professors in history and some humanities courses often require footnotes or endnotes based on The Chicago Manual of Style. The guidelines presented here are consistent with advice given in the Chicago Manual, 16th ed. (2010).
The text of the paper contains raised arabic numerals that correspond to numbered notes at the foot of the page or the end of the paper. When you use Chicago-style notes, you will usually be asked to include a bibliography at the end of your paper as well.
A bibliography, which appears at the end of your paper, lists every work you have cited in your notes; in addition, it may include works that you consulted but did not cite.
Note number in text
A Union soldier, Jacob Thompson, claimed to have seen Forrest order the killing, but when asked to describe the six-foot-two general, he called him “a little bit of a man.”13
Corresponding footnote or endnote
13. Brian Steel Wills, A Battle from the Start: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), 187.
Corresponding bibliography entry
Wills, Brian Steel. A Battle from the Start: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
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