Blog on How to do Chicago Style Citation

There are different types of report writing styles in the word and each style is different from one another. Chicago report writing style is also one of the most important writing styles which are very popular among the academic and professional sectors. The writers need to understand the writing styles to write a professional document for their assignments as well as the professional office reports or other documents. It is also important to know that every report making and writing style have different types of citations styles. To make the Chicago report beautiful, every citation style must be related to the reporting format used in the document. Other citation styles are also important and somehow easier than the Chicago reference style. In this article, it is discussed about the Chicago citation style which provides you important information and will effectively make the procedure of the citation easier. Furthermore, there are different types of citations in the Chicago format because documents can be in different forms. The Chicago of citation can be applied to the document in the form of website articles, journal articles, books, reports as well as other document formats. The procedures of citing in Chicago style can be very important.

Chicago Style Citation

            The notes and the bibliography is the most important and common form of the Chicago citation style, as well as the bibliography and notes, are the major focus of this article. The Chicago style citation is mostly used on a larger scale in the humanities. Furthermore, it also places the citation in the endnotes or the footnotes. The bibliography in this style is different from the normal bibliography. In bibliography in this style, is placed into the footnotes at the bottom of the page.

Chicago Citation sources with the notes

            The citation sources with the notes are used in the Chicago style using a superscript number at the clause or sentence end to cite the source in the Chicago Notes and the bibliography the style after the punctuation the mark. In simple words, the method of citation in the footnotes is very simple in which the superscript number or the reference cite number is placed at the end of the sentence or end of the word or punctuation. When the user will insert the superscript number on the text, then the option of inserting or input the bibliography is provided in the footnote. The endnote appears at the end of the text while the footnote appears at the bottom of every page.

The citation sources are based on two types of notes, which are full notes and endnotes. In the full notes citation, all of the things provided in the section such as Author full name, book title, edition including the publisher, publication place, number of the page, and URL.

While the short note consists of only the Author’s last name, Book title (shortened), as well as the page number.

Citing a Webpage

            For the proper citation of the web pages in Chicago style referencing, the complete knowledge of endnotes, footnotes as well as bibliography is very important. However, the footnotes and endnotes for the websites or particular webs pages are not always essential but the writer can also mention the sources simply in the written portion of the paper. Furthermore, the style of referencing is also different from the other references because the simple text can be used in this type of citation. On the other side, the Chicago style citation can be used efficiently using the footnotes and other simple Chicago style citations.

Journals in Chicago style Citation

            The Chicago style citation of the journals in the Chicago document is also very impotent as well as can be applied in several ways. The first method of citing the journal in the Chicago formatted document is that the citation can be applied simply by placing the text form bibliography. Another method that can also be applied to the document while citing a journal article is that the citation will be inserted in the word document by going on the references tab on the citation & bibliography group. In this group, the writer will select the style and then click on the Insert Citation button and then he should click on the new Citation.

            When the writer will click on Add new citation option, a new window will open. The writer will select the Journal to cite the journal in the word document. After selecting a journal, the user will input the names of the authors, name of the journal article, Journal name, Year as well as pages in the provided field and then click on the OK button. The word file will automatically arrange all of the citation content in the Chicago format. For the bibliography, the writer should go to the citation & bibliography group section and then click on the Bibliography button to insert a complete bibliographic list.