CHICAGO (TURABIAN) STYLE

Table of contents

• Chicago Style
• Chicago Style Paper Format
• Chicago Turabian Style Citation
• How to Write in Chicago Style

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Chicago Style

For scholarly and academic work, formatting helps to enhance the quality of the work in a significant way. Chicago Style finds most application in Theses, Research Papers and Dissertations. There are two dominant ways of citation under this style, which include the Author-Date System as well as the Notes-Bibliography System.

For scholarly and academic work, formatting helps to enhance the quality of the work in a significant way.

Chicago Style Paper Format

The Chicago Style’s format for papers varies from other formatting styles. There are variations in almost every section starting from the page layout to the citation and bibliography.

The Cover Page

This page contains the key details of the paper like the title, course title and name. The title of the paper should be in the middle part of the page. Your name should appear directly below the title. Other details including the name of your instructor and the course title should be written as line and should be at the centre in the bottom section of the title page.

General Outline

The organization of the various parts of the paper or the page have some order to follow under Chicago Turabian Style. The cover page forms the first or initial section of the paper. The main part of the body of the paper follows, and it precedes the appendix. The notes – footnotes and end-notes follow, and the bibliography forms the final section.

Page Layout

The general font for use under this style is Times New Roman, and the font size is 12. The body of the text should also have a justification that angles towards the left. This means that the right edge should be rough in some way. On the nature of the text, the proper way is to ensure double spacing in the entire text. 

The body of the text should have a justification towards the left. This means that the right edge should be rough in some way.

Page outline should conform to one-inch margins on the right and left sides as well as the top and bottom. The numbering should be at the top of the page, on the right corner. Since some instructors prefer one-sided printing, including the last name before on the right corner, also has its benefits.

Numbering should start from the very first page to the bibliography. However, the bibliography does not count as text. 

Names and Numbering

In Chicago Style, the naming of people and institutions should be in full when first mentioned or used in the paper. Institutions require full naming followed by its acronym in parentheses.

Example:

The International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The use of acronyms is proper after the first mention is in full with its accompanying acronym. On numbers, the convention under Chicago Style is using words for numbers less than 100.

Footnotes and End-notes

While footnotes generally feature at the page bottom of the citation section, end-notes appear on a different page after the body section. In the essay text, the note number should feature at the sentence end where the citation occurs. Typically, note numbers are in Arabic numerals, and they go after punctuation.

Word Notes should conform to Times New Roman font size 10 and should be at the top of the page together with the end-notes. Each entry should single-space, but there should be double spacing between entries. Reusing of numbers breaches Chicago Style conventions, and every note’s first line should have some indenting.

Using two numbers at sentence-ends also goes against conventions of the style. Citing sources exceeding one in a single note requires the use of a semicolon for separation.

Bibliography

The bibliography should be on a different page. For the Bibliography word itself, it should be centred and at the top, Times New Roman font size 12. The word should not be in bold. For the first line of the citations, there should be an indent.

Chicago Turabian Style Citation

The Chicago Turabian Style has its own set of conventions as far as citation goes. 

Citing a Book with One Author

The Chicago Style is straightforward when it comes to citing a book with one author. For the footnotes and end-notes and the bibliography, the convention is simple as it gets.

In footnotes and end-notes:

1. Manfred Gartner. Macroeconomics.

In the bibliography:

Manfred Gartner. Macroeconomics.

Citing a Book with Multiple Authors

This involves highlighting the names of the authors concerned and the title of the book. When they are e-books, it is imperative to add a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) or Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in the last part of the citation.

In footnotes and end-notes:

2. Marek Capinski and T.J Zastawniak. Mathematics for Finance: An Introduction to Financial Engineering.

In the bibliography:

Marek Capinski and T.J Zastawniak. Mathematics for Finance: An Introduction to Financial Engineering.

Citing Print Journals 

This involves writing the title of the journal, the volume number of the journal’s title, and the page range.

In footnotes and end-notes:

3. Valk Serge, Mattos Daiane and Ferreira Pedro. “Nowcasting: An R Package for Predicting Economic Variables Using Dynamic Factor Models,” The R Journal  Vol 11/1, 2019: 230-244.

In the bibliography:

Valk Serge, Mattos Daiane and Ferreira Pedro. “Nowcasting: An R Package for Predicting Economic Variables Using Dynamic Factor Models,” The R Journal  Vol 11/1, 2019: 230-244.

Citing a Web Page

This involves listing the names of the authors, the title of the article page and the website’s title in the footnotes and end-notes. For the end-notes, it requires adding the day of the month, the year of publication, or the last modification as well as the DOI or the URL.

In footnotes and end-notes:

4. Tapia Allena, “So You Want to Write SEO,” The Balance.

In the bibliography:

Tapia, Allena. “So You Want to Write SEO.” The Balance. May 05, 2018. 

Citing the Bible

Citing the Bible involves citing the Book, Chapter, Verse, Edition, and other details like Volume Number, City, Publisher and Year Published for the bibliography.

In footnotes and end-notes:

5. Proverbs 10:6 (New Standard Version).

In the bibliography:

The Holy Bible, New Standard Version, Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, 1997.

How to Write in Chicago Style

The structure involved in writing in Chicago Style is consistent with other conventions with variations in formatting. Chicago Style writing format requires getting some aspects right like how to organize content. 

Generally, the introduction starts off the article, the body follows, and the conclusion marks the end of the text. The writing process involves doing a great deal of research to establish the facts and figures to incorporate in the writing process.

After the research, the writing process should follow. It involves coming up with a solid opening or introduction, after which the body or the main section follows. This part holds the main arguments and facts of the paper.

The conclusion summarizes the whole paper thus far. It also marks the ending of the text and gives the reader a brief of the write-up. Since it is Chicago Style, the paper isn’t complete without applying the appropriate formatting techniques and conventions.