Chicago Style: Basics

Notes & Bibliography: General Formatting Rules

• Chicago Style Notes & Bibliography requires the use of notes, footnotes or endnotes, and a bibliography.
• The first note of a source should include author(s), title, publication information, and page number(s).
• Any subsequent notes of the same source need only to include a short form of the citation.
• Bibliographies are listed alphabetically by author last name.
• The second and subsequent lines of bibliographic entries are indented. 
• The notes are not double-spaced; however, there is a space between each individual note.
• The bibliography entries are also not double-spaced, but there is a space between each individual entry.