How to follow Chicago format

Following are the steps:

• The Author-Date system and the Notes-Bibliography system are the two citation forms used by CMOS. Both are suitable for a CMOS-formatted paper, although your teacher might insist that you use one over the other.

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• The titles of the CMOS bibliography page are "Bibliography" for Notes-Bibliography citations and "References" for Author-Date citations.

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• No title page is necessary.

If a title page is used, it should not have a header or page number. Halfway down the page, type the paper's title. On separate lines, center your name, course number, course title, and submission date.

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If there isn't a title page, put your name and the title of the paper on the first page.

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• There should be a margin of one to 1.5 inches all the way around each page.

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• The top right or bottom center of each page, excluding the title page, should have a page number. Maintain consistency with your choice of placement throughout the entire paper.

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• Double spacing is required for the essay.

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• A 12 inch indent should be used for each new paragraph.

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• Although a particular font or size is not required, 12-point Times New Roman is advised.

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• The title page "counts" as page 1 even if it doesn't have a page number. In other words, the first page of your document should be labeled "Page 2."

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• Block quotes are used to format quotations that are five lines long or longer. Without using quote marks, indent these by an additional 12 inch. before, add a line break.

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• All headings are formatted in headline case (Capitalize Every Major Word of the Heading), rather than sentence case (Capitalize only the first word of the heading).

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