CHICAGO STYLE PAPER TITLE

Jane Student
SNHU 107: Course Title
June 13, 2018
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Chicago style often uses a title page. The title of your paper is centered, one-third of the

way down the page. This is followed, a little more than halfway down the page, by a single-

spaced block of text, relaying your name, course number and title, and the date. The body of

your paper starts on the next page. It should be written using 12-point Times New Roman font,

and double-spaced. Page numbers appear at the top right-hand corner, and are numbered from

the first page of body text (no page numbers on the title page!). Finally, the paper should have

one-inch margins all around; no additional space is needed between paragraphs. To ensure that

no additional spaces appear between your paragraphs, click the Home tab, select the Paragraph

option, and then check the box labeled “Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style.”

When you quote and/or paraphrase text from a source, you will need to provide a

footnote at the end of the sentence. The first time you use a source, the Chicago style note

includes all of the source information you would typically put in a bibliography, but with slightly

different order and punctuation. It will also include the page number on which the quote or

paraphrase is found, if a page number is available. Adding footnotes to your paper is easy in

Microsoft Word. Click the References tab, then click Insert Footnote. This will create a

superscript number at the end of your sentence, and provide a space at the end of the page for

you to create your footnote reference. Footnotes are written in single-spaced 12-point Times

New Roman, but there is an additional space between each citation. The first line is indented

like a normal body paragraph. Footnotes are numbered starting at 1, and continue counting

upward with each note citation. Microsoft Word does this automatically. There is no need to try

to assign sources a number. So if you have fifty quotes in your paper, but only three sources,

your footnotes would number from 1 to 50, and would appear in your paper in numerical order.
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Here is an example of a sentence that contains a quote and is, therefore, followed by a

footnote: The author claims that despite a lack in advanced healthcare, the ancient Romans were

the “healthiest specimen of the human form” for that time.1 Notice that, in the previous sentence,

the quoted material is introduced with the phrase “the author claims.” This sort of phrase also

indicates that the information to come is from a source and should be cited.

After you cite a source the first time, subsequent citations can use shortened footnotes.

These footnotes include the following information: Author’s last name, a shortened version of

the title (approximately four words), and the page number of the quoted/paraphrased material. If

you cite the author immediately afterward, the title may be omitted. Here is an example: Author

Craig Cassius mentions, “They [roman athletes] trained ceaselessly and were very competitive.” 2

A typical day of training may have included hand-to-hand combat training, footraces, javelin

throwing, and chariot racing.3

You may have noticed that footnotes one through three point to book sources. Note

citation styles vary depending on the type of source you’re citing. For information about how to

create notes for other types of sources, go to Shapiro Library’s Chicago Style Guide, then click

Notes & Bibliography.

If the name of the author is not available for the source you wish to cite, then the title of

the quoted or paraphrased article should stand in for the author’s name in the footnote. See this

example of a footnote for an online journal article without an author: The article states, “Medusa

1
. Craig Cassius, The Great Olympics of Ancient Rome (Louisville, KY: Heavyweight
Press, 1960), 7.
2
. Cassius, The Great Olympics, 85.
3
. Cassius, 86-90.
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was one of the great arch-villians of both Greek and Roman mythology.”4 Although this is an

online journal article, it is optional to include the URL or DOI in the note citation. If included,

the URL would appear after the page number. However, it is always required to cite the

URL/DOI in the bibliographic citation at the end of the paper. (Important note: if you cite a

webpage, you should include the URL in the first footnote citation. The URL is only optional

for online journals, newspapers, and magazines.)

At the end of your paper, on the next new page after the last sentence of your paper, you

will need to list all of the sources you used; this is called a bibliography. The title for this page

will be “Bibliography”; there is no need to italicize it, bold it, or place it in quotation marks.

Make sure the title is centered. The information for each source in this list will be formatted in

Chicago style citations.

Your citations will be listed in alphabetical order, according to the first letter of the

authors’ last names. (If a given source/article does not have an author name available, then order

it according to the first letter of the title of the article.) Thus, each source will begin with the

author’s last name; or, in the absence of that information, the article’s title. Just like note

citations, bibliography citations are single-spaced, but with an additional space added between

each citation. Finally, make sure that after you’ve typed out your citations, you apply the

hanging indent paragraph setting. This will format your citations so that, for each citation, the

first line is aligned with the margin, and all subsequent lines will be indented a half inch. To do

this, click the Home tab, select the paragraph option, and locate the “Special” drop-down menu.

Be sure your References are highlighted, then select the option “Hanging.”

. “Great Arch-Villains of Roman Mythology,” Journal of Multiverse Comparisons 12,

no. 15 (1978): 22.

Bibliography entries, like footnote citations, will differ depending on the sources you

have chosen. The way you cite a book is different from the way you cite an article on a website.

Refer to resources found in the Shapiro Library Chicago Style Guide for a detailed description of

each type of citation. Remember that the note citations in your paper and the bibliographic

citations must go hand-in-hand; you cannot have a source listed in one place but not in the other.

The purpose of the bibliography is to provide the reader with a clear list of all the sources you

included in the paper.

Bibliography

Cassius, Craig. The Great Olympics of Ancient Rome. Louisville, KY: Heavyweight Press, 1960.

“Great Arch-Villains of Roman Mythology.” Journal of Multiverse Comparisons 12, no. 15

White, Perry. “Great Scott! What Will the Olympics Do Now?” The Daily Planet. April 13,
1940. http://www.dailyplanet.com/1940/04/13/great-scott-what-will-the-olympics-do-
now.html.