Any history major gets to know their way around Chicago/Turabian style during their tenure in the undergrad world, but if you're just starting out or could use help getting your footnotes done faster and easier, this article is for you. The most notable feature of Chicago Style is not Marilyn Monroe in a breezy white dress over a subway grate, but it's endless parade of Footnotes or Endnotes. If you find yourself or a friend panicking over how to put these rambunctious little creatures into your latest paper, I would like to share with you my Patent Pending (I wish) Chicago Pro Citation a-GoGo citation method, carefully developed in a musty college library for optimal user-friendly handling!!
First, while you're writing your paper, follow your sentences with parenthetical citations with the author and page number where you found the information from, just like if you were doing MLA, APA, or another parenthetical citation. Example:
Even America’s famous patriot and silversmith Paul Revere is pictured in his portrait by John Copley holding a silver tea pot as an example of some of the finest of his handiwork. (Roth 17)Beautiful! This way, if you decide to rearrange, rewrite, or add content in your paper during the editing process, you won't have to worry about changing all the little endnote numbers around.
Once you've completed your final draft and are sure you won't be making any more structural changes to the paper, go through your paper and at the end of each sentence where you have a citation, click on Microsoft Word's "Add footnote" or "Add endnote" button (found under the References tab on the top toolbar). This will place the exponential number by your punctuation mark (there shouldn't be any space between the two) and then take you to the end of the page or document where you can record the citation information in your parenthetical brackets.
Even America’s famous patriot and silversmith Paul Revere is pictured in his portrait by John Copley holding a silver tea pot as an example of some of the finest of his handiwork.[1]This is an example of a footnote. The exponent didn't transfer to Blogger, but you get the idea.
Be sure to then delete your parentheses and their content and move on to the next citation, clicking the Add ___note button once again. Also, remember the Chicago style has a different citation format for endnotes/footnotes than in the bibliography! I guess that's part of what makes it a big pain. Any citation guide will show you how to format each one though.
Boom! You SLAY that paper! Or at least just have something to turn in tomorrow...
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More resources:
Purdue OWL Chicago Citation
Student's Guide to History
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