Your paper will consist of a mix of your ideas and the ideas of others. You put the ideas of other people in your essay in one of two ways. By quoting, which means that you copy words from somebody else. Or by paraphrasing, which means you write their ideas in your own words.
Citing Research
In Chicago Style, you must follow each quote or paraphrase with a superscript note number. That note number corresponds to a note citation or footnote in the footer of the page. Footnotes follow the footnote format (below). At the end of your paper, you still must include your reference list. In Chicago style, the reference list is called a Bibliography.
Example citation:
Kangaroos can jump to a remarkable height of 3 meters.1
Example Footnote (for above citation):
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1. Adam Turner, The Mechanics of Hopping by Kangaroos. (Sydney: University of Sydney Press), 133.
Note: If you cite this author again you only need to write the author's last name and page number of your citation in the footnote. For example:
2. Turner, 204
Example Bibliography Entry (for above citation and footnote)
Turner, Adam. The Mechanics of Hopping by Kangaroos. Sydney: University of Sydney Press, 2020.
Footnote and Bibliography Format
Each footnote and reference is written slightly differently depending on if they are published in a journal, book, webpage, newspaper, or other source. Grab the purple Chicago Citations handout at the library entrance to help with constructing your reference list.
Chicago 17 has strict rules for how your paper should look. This includes the look of your title page, the font you use, heading styles, and the spacing and indenting of each paragraph.
See here for a sample Chicago 17 formatted paper (OWL Purdue).