A citation guide for Chicago Style 17th Edition. Includes Author-Date style and Notes & Bibliography style.
- All citations should be double spaced and have a hanging indent.
- A "hanging indent" means that each subsequent line after the first line of your citation should be indented by 0.5 inches.
- Label the first page of your your comprehensive list of sources, “Bibliography” (for Notes and Bibliography style) or “References” (for Author-Date style).
- List entries in letter-by-letter alphabetical order according to the first word in each entry, be that the author's name or the title of the piece.
-Leave two blank lines between the title and your first entry. Then, leave one blank line between each entry.
- All citations should use first line indent, where the first line of the footnote should be indented by 0.5 inches; all subsequent lines are not indented.
- Footnotes should be the same font size and style as the rest of your paper.
- Note numbers should begin with “1” and follow consecutively throughout a given paper
See instructions for how to insert footnotes in Microsoft Word.
See instructions for how to insert footnotes in Google Docs.