The Chicago University Press was founded in 1891. Basically, a group of typesetters and compositors, who were charged with developing a consistent format for referencing works from around the world and in all languages, came up with a style sheet to guide researchers. Over time, that style sheet became a manual and underwent a number of changes. We are now into the 16th edition of the manual. It has been revised this many times to adapt to changes in reference materials, and, most recently, digital sources.

Unlike the MLA or other style guides, the Chicago Style Manual is over a thousand pages and covers much more than its citation guidelines. It discusses formatting issues, punctuation (e.g., punctuating bulleted lists within a piece of writing), structural and other compositional guidelines – all with an eye toward scholarly writing. In this respect, then it is not just the Chicago Manual of Style Citation. It is a great reference for researchers and writers/authors of academic works.

For our purposes, and for those of most students, we are confining are information and guidelines to the intext and end-of-text citations that are commonly used by students in writing up their research works.

Most citation styles have a single overall format, with specifics for different types of resource materials (book, journal, website, blog, article movie/film, images/photos, a lecture or interview, etc.),

Chicago style provides two major style options – the Notes-Bibliography format (usually used in history and the arts) and the Author-Date format (usually for social and hard sciences). A variation of the CMS has been offered by author Kate Turabian, who has written a more condensed version of the CMA style, especially for textbook publishers.

This style is far more similar to APA and MLA.

1. Intext Citations.

Parenthetical citations are inserted within the text of the piece, just as they are in other common styles (i.e., author’s last name, and year of publication). Page numbers are inserted when appropriate.

2. Bibliographies

The CMS bibliography citation format with the author-date style is the same as for the Notes-Bibliography style.

Just as there are with all other format styles, there are guidelines for title pages, margins, headers, and pagination. These can be found on the CMS manual or on any number of web-based cites.

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