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Indiana History

Websites on Style

Chicago Style and Turabian

Format for Notes

To quote or summarize, you must use notes, also called footnotes. They consist of 2 parts:

1. Superscript number at the end of the quote or summary from the resource

2. The footnote containing the citation

To see how it looks in an entire paper in Chicago style, see this example from Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL): https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/chicago_manual_17th_edition/cmos_formatting_and_style_guide/cmos_nb_sample_paper.html