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Citation Guide: Chicago

This guide will help students understand the different types of citations and how to apply them

Chicago Style

  • Chicago Style Guide - From the work of Kate Turabian at the University of Chicago and the University of Chicago Press. Often preferred in history.

The Basics of Chicago

Chicago Manuel of Style

General Guidelines

General CMOS Guidelines

  • Text should be consistently double-spaced, except for block quotations, notes, bibliography entries, table titles, and figure captions.
  • For block quotations, which are also called extracts:
    • A prose quotation of five or more lines, or more than 100 words, should be blocked.
    • CMOS recommends blocking two or more lines of poetry.
    • A blocked quotation does not get enclosed in quotation marks.
    • A blocked quotation must always begin a new line.
    • Blocked quotations should be indented with the word processor’s indention tool.
    • Page numbers begin in the header of the first page of text with Arabic number 1.
    • Subheadings should be used for longer papers.
      • CMOS recommends you devise your own format but use consistency as your guide
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