What is the Chicago Manual of Style?

The Chicago Manual of Style is widely used in the publishing industry. This style may also be referred to as the Turabian style and are essentially the same styles, except a few minor differences.

Chicago Manual of Style: Basics

List of references must begin on a separate page at the end of the paper, and double spaced.

Arrange the items on your reference list alphabetically by author, last name first.

When listing a range of numbers, use en dash NOT a hyphen.

Start listing with title, if no author is given.

Indent the second line, and all lines that follow

The first word of the article title and subtitle are the only words capitalized. Similar to APA style.

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