Chicago-style source citations come in two varieties: notes and bibliography and author-date.
Preferred by many working in the humanities—literature, history, and the arts.
Sources are cited in numbered footnotes or endnotes, each note matching a superscript number in the text. Sources are usually listed in a separate bibliography.
More common in the sciences and social sciences.
Sources are cited briefly in the text, usually in parentheses, by author’s last name and year. Each citation corresponds to a full entry in the reference list.
Kate L. Turabian’s Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations is the student version of The Chicago Manual of Style, aimed at high school and college students who are writing papers, theses, and dissertations that are not intended for publication. (The Chicago Manual of Style is aimed at professional scholars and publishers.) The two books are compatible; both are official Chicago style.
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