What are the major features of Chicago? For full information, use the resources below.
- Chicago style is used in many different disciplines, including history, business, and publishing (Ask your professor what citation format you should use)
- The Chicago Manual of Style has information not only on citation, but also on punctuation, grammar, and writing style
- While the official manual can be overwhelmingly comprehensive, there is also a simplified version for students, called Turabian
- Chicago/Turabian allows two different ways of citing. The "author-date" method uses in-text citations and a reference list, like MLA or APA. The "note-bibliography" system uses footnotes (or endnotes) instead of in-text citations--you put a note every time you reference a source. Then at the end, you also create an alphabetical bibliography, similar to MLA or APA.
