Chicago Style (Notes/Bibliography format)

Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) provides detailed information on formatting a manuscript to be sent to a publisher. It does not address formatting of student papers. This page provides basic information about the components of a paper following CMS Notes-Bibliography system. Always find out whether your instructor has specific requirements when you are writing a paper.

Basic elements of a paper using Chicago style are as follows:

• A title page that contains:
  • the title of your paper
  • your name
  • the class, the professor, and the date.
• Body of the paper.
• Footnotes on pages where references occur OR an Endnotes page on a new page after the body of the paper.
• Bibliography.