Chicago Style
Text Version
Visual Description: An index card with three paperclips in the upper right corner. Left to right, they are red, purple, and orange.
Title: Chicago Style Formatting Tips
Red Paperclip:
Title, Annotated Bibliography, in the top center of the first page.
Purple Paperclip:
Divide the annotated bibliography into two sections. Label them "Primary Sources" and "Secondary Sources."
List the sources alphabetically by the first word that is not “A,” “An,” or “The.”
Orange Paperclip:
- Single space, but skip a line between entries.
- Don’t indent the first line of a citation, but indent all the lines after it.
- Indent all source annotations.
- Do not hyperlink web addresses.