What is Chicago Manual Style?
The Chicago style is utilized to cite resources for miscellaneous fields, namely History, Philosophy, Literature, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
There are two formats for this writing style:
1) The Notes and Bibliography Style
2) The Author–Date Style
Footnotes and the bibliography style is commonly used for Historical and Literary texts and the author-date style is more common with Social Sciences.
Introduction to CMOS
Basic Guidelines
– Margins should not be less than 1” and greater than 1.5”.
– The font is recommended to be Times New Roman in 12-point type.
– The Text is left-aligned with a ragged right edge.
– Paragraph beginnings are aligned 1.2”.
– The pages should be numbered on the top-right-hand corner and begin on the first page of the text.
– The title is centred.
– If quotations are more than five lines or 100 words, they should be put in block quotations.
– The text should be double-spaced except for the block.
– Block quotations, table titles, and figure captions are single-spaced.
– Footnote numbers, that begin with 1 and are followed consecutively, are added at the end of the clause or sentence.
– Subheadings are used for longer papers.