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Chicago Style Essay Formatting Guide

This document provides instructions for formatting a paper using the Chicago citation style. It explains that the student should include their name, class information, and date on the title page. The main text should begin on page two, with page numbers and the student's last name in the header. Footnotes should be used to cite sources, with full bibliographic information provided for first citations and shortened citations for subsequent references. A bibliography on a separate page lists all sources alphabetically at the end.

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Chicago Style Essay Formatting Guide

This document provides instructions for formatting a paper using the Chicago citation style. It explains that the student should include their name, class information, and date on the title page. The main text should begin on page two, with page numbers and the student's last name in the header. Footnotes should be used to cite sources, with full bibliographic information provided for first citations and shortened citations for subsequent references. A bibliography on a separate page lists all sources alphabetically at the end.

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~The Chicago Style Template~

The Title of Your Essay Here


(One-quarter page down from top)

Your Name Here


(At the half-page mark)

Subject Name Here


Instructors Name Here
Date Here

Your Last Name 2

The main section of your essay will begin here, on page two, with your last name and
the page number in a header, at the upper right corner. There is no page number on the title
page. Leave margins at one inch on the top, bottom, and sides of the page. Double-space
the entire manuscript, including long quotations. You can find more information about
formatting your essay on p. 224 - 226 of A Pocket Style Manual.

You will use raised Arabic numerals to cite your sources in footnotes at the bottom
of the page. This is the Chicago Style, and we will use this style in all papers for this course
(including the use of a title page). The details for arranging information in footnotes are
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found in your handbook. The first time you reference the source, you will use the full
bibliographic information (as shown in the first footnote below). If you use the same source
again later in the essay, you will only use the author's last name and page number (as shown
in the third footnote below). If there isn't an author, you would use title of the source. If it is
an online source, there isn't a page number.
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Use the word "Ibid" in your footnotes when you are referring to the same source as a
previous citation and add the page number if the information comes from a different page
number than the previous citation. Once again, if it is an online source, there won't be a page
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number. Your word processor will insert these footnotes and EasyBib will format them for
you.

Diana Hacker, A Pocket Style Manual (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009), 224 - 226.

These footnotes at the bottom of the page will indicate citationsdirect quotes, paraphrases, and summaries.

Hacker, 229.

Ibid.

EasyBib: Free Bibliography Maker - MLA, APA, Chicago Citation Styles, accessed September 20, 2011,
http://www.easybib.com.

Bibliography

EasyBib: Free Bibliography Maker - MLA, APA, Chicago Citation Styles. Accessed
September 20, 2011. http://www.easybib.com.
Hacker, Diana. A Pocket Style Manual. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009.

List the sources you referenced in your essay on this separate page. You will find the format for this
list on p. 230 in A Pocket Style Manual. The sources listed in your bibliography should be placed in
alphabetical order by the authors' last names or, when there is no author, by the title.

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