Chicago / Turabian Style Guide: Chicago Style Citation Basics

If you need to write a note or bibliography citation for books, articles, and other common sources, you can find examples to follow here.

• Quick guide to Turabian-style citations
• Quick guide to Chicago-style citations

Paper-Formatting Tip Sheets

1. How Do I Format Margins and Page Numbers?
2. How Do I Format a Title Page?
3. How Do I Format a Contents Page?
4. How Do I Format a List of Figures?
5. How Do I Format an Introduction or Conclusion?
6. How Do I Format the Main Text?
7. How Do I Format Sections and Subheads?
8. How Do I Format a Chapter Opening Page?
9. How Do I Format a Figure and Figure Caption?
10. How Do I Format a Bibliography?
11. How Do I Format Endnotes?
12. How Do I Format Footnotes?
13. How Do I Format Parenthetical Author-Date Citations?
14. How Do I Format a Reference List?

• What is the Chicago style?
• Is Turabian style the same as Chicago style?
• How do I format my paper in Chicago Style?
• What’s the difference between a note citation and a bibliography citation?
• What is author-date style?
• Why do I have to cite sources?
• How do I know when to cite something?
• How many sources can I cite in one note?
• How do I cite the same source many times?
• How do I cite an image?
• How do I cite a website or blog?
• How do I write a quotation?

If you are writing your first paper or trying to improve your skills, these one-page tip sheets are written with you in mind. Read the ones that interest you or download all 26 topics in one PDF.

1. Why Research?
2. Choosing a Topic: Research Questions
3. Core of an Argument = Claim + Reasons + Evidence
4. Plan Your Research Around the Questions of Argument
5. How to Plan Your Time
6. Finding a Research Question
7. Academic Language of Research—Assignments
8. Academic Language of Research—How to Position Your Idea
9. Tell and Retell Your Elevator Story
10. Finding Relevant and Reliable Sources
11. Write as You Read
12. How Arguments Grow from Questions
13. Academic Language of Research—Acknowledging
14. Academic Language of Research—Responding
15. Planning Your Draft
16. Working Through Writer’s Block: Getting Unstuck
17. When to Quote, Paraphrase, or Summarize
18. Academic Language of Research—Verbs for Introducing a Quotation or Paraphrase
19. Three Principles for Citing Sources
20. The Dramatic Pattern of Introductions and Fairy Tales
21. Writing an Introduction
22. Drafting a Conclusion
23. Writing Your Title
24. Revising Your Draft: Shape (Organization), Introduction and Conclusion, Sentence Level
25. Five Principles for Clear Sentences
26. Accepting Feedback