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Hi, everyone. This is David Taylor from the Effective Writing Center.
And in this short video, we’re going to review how to set up a Word document in Chicago style.
With the blank document open, go first to Layout.
Then, on the Margins dropdown menu, select “Normal” for 1-inch margins on all sides,
top, bottom, left, and right.
Next, let’s set alignment and line spacing by clicking on the Home tab.
Then in the Paragraph grouping, select Align Left.
Move your cursor over to the spacing tool’s dropdown menu
and select 2.0 for double spacing.
Now let’s set our indentation for the first line of a paragraph.
Click on the Paragraph dialog box launcher arrow.
In the box that appears, under “Special” select First Line
and make sure the number is 0.5 or half inch.
For font and point size, it’s recommended you use Times New Roman, 12-point type.
So, click on Home and make those selections.
Chicago style papers may or may not have a title page, depending upon the instructions you were given.
If a title page is required, center the title of your paper about one-third down the page.
Then about 8 lines below that, center your name, class information, date or whatever information your instructions specify.
This information block should be double spaced.
After entering this information, go up to the Layout tab,
then click on the Breaks drop down arrow.
Under Section breaks, select Next Page.
You will now be taken to the first body page of your paper.
Double left click or Command click on a Mac in the header area to open it up.
Then go to the Navigation pane of the Header & Footer tab
and click on “Link to Previous” to delink this body page from the title page.
Next go to the Insert tab and click on the Page Number dropdown arrow.
Select “Format Page Numbers.” In the dialog box that appears,
under “Page Numbering” click the radio button “Start at” and enter the number 1. Click OK.
Now on the page number dropdown arrow again, this time select “Top of Page,” Plain Number 3.
This will place the number 1 in the top right corner,
and now Word will number all pages of your document consecutively beginning with this page.
And type the title of your paper in the center of the page.
The easiest way to insert Chicago-style citations is to use Word’s footnote tool.
I’m going to paste in the first two sentences of the introduction.
However, I need to cite the information in the second sentence about the death of Konstantin Chernenko.
The default for the superscript number and footnote text is 10-point Calibri.
Now, if you wish to change it to 12-point Times New Roman to match the rest of your paper,
go to the Styles group and click on the dialog box launcher arrow.
Then select the Manage Styles option. In the Manage Styles dialog box that appears,
select Alphabetical for Sort Order.
Now, scroll to Footnote Reference, which refers to the superscript number.
Select Footnote Reference and click on Modify.
Now change the settings to Times New Roman 12-point or whatever you have been instructed to use.
Then click OK. Simply repeat this process for Footnote Text.
Now that my styles are set, to add a footnote, I simply place my cursor at the end of a sentence where I wish the citation to appear.
The cursor should be blinking after all punctuation.
Then I click on References. In the Style selection window, I choose Chicago.
Next, I click on the Footnotes dialog box launcher arrow.
In the dialog box, I first choose Footnotes and their location: Bottom of page.
Note that I could also choose End Notes.
And there’s even an option to convert from one to the other automatically.
Under Format, be sure Arabic numerals are selected.
They should start at 1 and be continuous throughout the paper.
The number 1 will appear in superscript at the end of the sentence.
And, at the bottom of the page will be an area where you enter in the footnote information.
Repeat this process for adding all of your footnote citations.
Word will automatically adjust the spacing of the page to accommodate.