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Citations: More on Chicago Style

This page gives a detailed overview of the Chicago Style citation guide. To learn how to create in text citations and works cited pages using Chicago, click here

Chicago Handbook

Welcome to the Chicago Subject Guide. Here you will find resources and documents that help you formulate Chicago style citations.

What is Chicago? Chicago style was created by the University of Chicago Press. It is a set of guidelines used to properly cite sources in research papers to avoid plagiarism.

What needs to be cited?

What Needs to be Cited? In Chicago, information from sources that you have paraphrased, quoted, or otherwise used to write your research paper must be referred to in two places:

  1. Notes are full Chicago citations, which means they include all the bibliographic information needed for the reader to retrieve the sources your information comes from, used in your research paper at the bottom of a page of information.
  2. References in the Bibliography are full Chicago citations, which means they include all the bibliographic information needed for a reader to retrieve the sources your information comes from, in an alphabetical list that appears at the end of your research paper.

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