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Chicago Style a la Shmoop. Chicago style.

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No its not the type of fashion President Obama took with him when he went

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from the Windy City to the White House The Chicago Manual of Style or CMS

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is mainly used for papers on history social science and anthropology.

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While it was created by the University of Chicago plenty of other schools use it.

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Deep dish pizza however is only good in Chicago.

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Dont trust the pretenders.

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CMS is also called the editors Bible because they worship good grammar and proper citation techniques.

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Plagiarism is their Lucifer.

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Complete with tiny forked tail.

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A CMS-formatted paper includes a title page the main body a bibliography and footnotes footnotes footnotes.

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Oh and footnotes.

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First the title page.

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Get out your ruler.

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The title should be about one-third of the way down the page.

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It should be in all caps.

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Its okay they wont think youre shouting.

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Youll have to check your ego at the door.

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No one really cares about your name.

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However you need to throw it on there somewhere.

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It should follow in smaller print lower down the page along with your class name

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and the date.

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At least you get higher billing than the date. Woot.

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The body of the paper is pretty simple.

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The main thing you need to know is that you should use capitalization sparingly.

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Like emergency-water-on-a-life-raft sparingly.

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Titles mentioned in the text notes or bibliography should only use capital letters for the

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first word as well as any important words that follow.

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You may have a soft spot for and but it simply isnt deemed important.

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CMS also likes block quotes for prose quotes of more than five lines.

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Just make sure to leave an extra space before and after the quote.

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Like when youre packing to move you need to leave space to maneuver around boxes.

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CMS encourages footnotes.

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If you can count you can handle footnotes.

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They start with the number one and continue in consecutive order.

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The numbers hover above the word in superscript. Think Superman.

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Yeah he hovers too.

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Youll put any information referenced in your footnotes at the end of the paper after the bibliography.

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Finally weve reached the end of your paper.

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These babies have back. Bibliography. Footnotes.

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Theres a whole bunch of junk in this trunk.

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On the bibliography page you should put the word bibliography centered at the top of the page.

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Then list all your sources every source youve used to inform the content of your

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paper not just the ones cited in alphabetical order by author last name.

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All thats left is to plug in your footnotes.

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And thats it for CMS.

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A title page with the title in all caps.

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A main body with block quotes and footnotes.

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And your bibliography.

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Like the best fashion its simple.

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CMS is a way for your essays to dress for success. NOTE end of file

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