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Chicago 17th edition (Turabian 9th):
You can use footnotes or endnotes in Chicago, but you may want to ask your instructor which they would prefer you to use.
Turabian is a simplified version of Chicago for students.
- Chicago Guide at the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
- Chicago Manual of Style Quick Guide
- Chicago Manual of Style (print book) - the official guide to all Chicago style rules.
Z253.C54 in Reference and the Information Desk - Chicago Citation Guide maintained by Simon Fraser University librarians - especially good for Canadian government publications
- A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (print book) - the official Turabian handbook. Turabian is compliant with Chicago.
LB2369.T8 at the Information Desk
note: this book follows the 16th edition, the 17th edition (9th edition of this particular book) is on order as of June 2021
The following video goes over the basics of how to create footnotes from the information you are citing.
Here is how to create a Bibliography (References) page.
The following video helps to explain how to format a Chicago paper (including footnotes) but doesn't go into details on citations.
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