Transcript Documenting Sources Using Chicago Style for Dr. Smith’s

Documenting Sources Using Chicago Style for
Humanities and History Courses
Slides by Candice Shockley
Voice by Victoria Brieske
 UNDERSTANDING CHICAGO STYLE’S MAIN FEATURES
C R E A T I N G F O O T N O T E S I N W O R D
F O R M A T T I N G B I B L I O G R A P H I C I N F O R M A T I O N W I T H I N
FOOTNOTES
Main Features
 A title page is generally not required. Your name, the
course name, etc. are included on the first page of
text.
 Footnotes are used rather than parenthetical
citations.
 A separate bibliography page is also not needed for
papers. Instead, complete bibliographic is provided
in the footnotes.
Formatting Text
 1-inch margins on all four edges of each page
 12-point Times New Roman typeface
 Doubled-spaced text
 Single-spaced footnotes
Choose
“References” Tab
Choose “Insert
Footnote”
Creating Footnotes in Microsoft
Word
Creating
Footnotes
continued…
A superscripted
number will
appear where
the cursor was
placed, along
with a
corresponding
number at the
bottom of the
page.
Creating
Footnotes
cont…
Format for Books
Single-Author Books
 First name Last Name, Title (Place of Publication: Publisher’s name, date of
publication), page number
1.Thomas Keneally, Abraham Lincoln: A Life (New York: Penguin Group,
2008), 34.
Shortened note for subsequent references:
4.Keneally, Abraham Lincoln, 37.
Multiple Authors
• List all names in standard order, then cite as you would a single author book. The
shortened form of this type of citation is the same as for a single-author book.
J. B. Harley and James K. Hogue, The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of
Cartography, ed. Paul Laxton (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), 132-33.
1.
NOTE: If there are 4 or more authors, list only the first author’s name, followed
by et al.
Documenting Lecture Notes
 First reference:
Hal Smith, Lecture Notes, week 1.
1.
• All Subsequent References:
4.
Smith, Lecture Notes, week 1.
Primary and Secondary Sources
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
 Original documents
 Books and articles that
that are used as
evidence to support
ideas.
analyze primary
sources.
•
• EX: letters, diaries,
films, manuscripts,
government documents
EX: articles in
scholarly journals,
specialized
encyclopedia entries
Documenting
Primary
Sources within
Secondary
Sources
Use of Ibidem in Footnotes
 Definition: Ibidem means “in the same place.”
 Abbreviation: Ibid.
 Purpose: To shorten a note that cites the same
source that is cited immediately preceding the note.
1.Thomas
Keneally, Abraham Lincoln: A Life (New York: Penguin
Group (USA, 2008), 34.
2. Ibid., 48.
3. Ibid.
**NOTE: Footnote 3 signifies that the citation is not only from
the same source, but comes from the same page as the
preceding note.
Resources
 Chicago Manual/Turabian Manual Quick Reference
Guide
http://www.uhv.edu/ac/style/pdf/Turabian.Quick.G
uide.pdf
 Kate L. Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of
Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 7th ed.,
rev. ed. is the most current.