CHICAGO EASY CITATION GUIDE

Title Page:

Centre the title of your paper in the middle of the page (like the VERY centre)
Your full names goes right below the title
Professor's name, course code and section, and date are written on three separate lines centred at the bottom of the page
All text on the title page should be 12 pt Times New Roman font. No underlines, bolding, or italics!
No page number on the title page

Written like 12 October 2019

Very centre of page

Title

Your full name

Dr. Whoever

Course code and section

Date of submission

No page number or last name

Everything double-spaced

Page Layout:

1-inch margins on all four sides
12 pt Times New Roman font
All lines of paper (including bibliography, discluding footnotes and endnotes) double-spaced
Paragraphs should only be separated by a 1-inch indent (NOT by extra blank lines)
Pages are numbered in the top right corner with last name (E.g. Dupuis 1)
- start page count on the first page of TEXT not title page
- Page numbers should continue all the way through the bibliography, but page count stops on your last page of text (E.g. your conclusion paragraph ends on page 5, but your bibliography continues to page 8, your paper is only 5 pages)

Dupuis 1

The first line is indented 1 inch (just hit the tab button). The rest of the lines for that paragraph are right along the 1-inch margins.

The next paragraph is only separated from the preceding paragraph by starting on a new line and another 1-inch indent.

Last name and page number in top right corner

First line of each new paragraph is indented

No extra space in between paragraphs

Bibliography:

Start it on a new page
'Bibliography' should be written at the top in the same font as the rest of the paper
12 pt Times New Roman
double-spaced
Hanging indent: the first line of each entry is against the margin and then every following line is indented 1 inch
- this helps the reader find specific entries easier
Entries should be in alphabetical order (based on the author's name OR if there is no author, based on the title)
All entries, regardless of type, should be in one continuous list

Dupuis 8

Bibliography

Author's last name, first name. "Article Title." Journal

Title Volume number, no. Issue number (Month

Year): page numbers. (accessed date).

Last name and page number in top right corner

Titled 'Bibliography' in the same font as the rest of the paper

Hanging indent

***Things in the example that are highlighted should be in your bibliography just as they are shown.

***Things that are NOT highlighted are descriptions that you must fill in according to your source

Footnotes

Written at the bottom of the page where that specific reference occurs
Should be in Arabic numbers (1,2,3). NOT Roman Numerals (i, ii, iii)
The note (1,2,3 etc) goes at the end of the sentence where the reference occurs, regardless of where the reference is found within the sentence
- note number goes after all punctuation
Entries within the notes are single-spaced
- add one additional space between entries to help separate them
Entries should be in 10 pt font Times New Roman
Numbers are never reused, even if it is the same source
If you need to cite two things in one sentence, separate the two citations in the notes with a semicolon, but only have one note number in the actual text
Microsoft Word will format footnotes for you if you search 'footnotes'

Dupuis 1

The first line is indented 1 inch (just hit the tab button). The rest of the lines for that paragraph are right along the 1-inch margins.

The next paragraph is only separated from the preceding paragraph by starting on a new line and another 1-inch indent.

Author's first and last name, “Title of the Article,” Journal Title, Volume:Issue (Year): page numbers.

***Things in the example that are highlighted should be in your bibliography just as they are shown.

***Things that are NOT highlighted are descriptions that you must fill in according to your source

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