Chicago CItation Style Guideline

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Introduction to Chicago Citation

• The Chicago citation style or Turabian
• standard of writing was enforced in 1906
• Initially, this format came in regards
• of the students at University of Chicago
• This citation format serves writing in the field
• of humanitiesliterature, history, and the arts

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Merits of Chicago
Citation

• As a reader ,Chicago citation format will make
• so complete that you will always be able to
• understand the subject at ease.
• This format lends consistency and makes texts
• more readable by those who assess or publish
  them
• Easy to handle punctuation in bulleted or
• numbered lists

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Types in Chicago Style

• Chicago has two recommended style or types.
• Notes-Bibliography System
• Author-Date System
• The most popular of the two is the Notes-
• Bibliography System which makes use of either
• Footnotes or Endnotes

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Chicago
Style Title Page

• In Chicago style ,there is a title page
  consisting
• of two main parts
• Title
• Place the title here in all caps. If there is
  a subtitle,
• place a colon at the end of the main title
  and
• start the subtitle on the next line.
• Name and Class Identification
• Author(s) Name(s)
• Course Number and Title
• Date (Month date, year format)

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Chicago
Style Body Page

• Body Pages in Chicago Style contains
• the page number in the top right corner.
• The prose of the paper is double spaced
• although block quotes are typed with single
  spacing.
• Footnotes are entered at the bottom of the
• page to show reference

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Documentation in Chicago
Style

• Documentation refers to the bibliography list at
  the
• commencement of the paper. This list contains
• labeled Bibliography
• starts at the top of a new page
• continues page numbering from the last page of
  text
• is alphabetical
• is single-spaced with two blank lines in between

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Documentation in Chicago
Style

• Apart from the Bibliography there are many
  specified documentation work as
• Documenting Authors
• Documenting Books
• Documenting Chapters
• Documenting Journals ,etc.
• Each and every documentation process has definite
  
• set of rules and regulations to abide by ,
• for successful completion of work

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