Sample Paper
Here is a sample History paper written in Chicago Style. You can also learn more by looking at Diana Hacker's excellent website on researching and writing for History.
Chicago Style Tutorial
Recommended Resources
The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an excellent guide to writing, researching, and citation and is used by libraries all over the world. I have selected a few of their guides that I think will be most helpful to you as you write your History Research Papers.
- Purdue OWL -Academic WritingThese OWL resources will help you with the types of writing you may encounter while in college. The OWL resources range from rhetorical approaches for writing, to document organization, to sentence level work, such as clarity.
- Purdue OWL - Chicago Style Citation HelpThis section contains information on the Chicago Manual of Style method of document formatting and citation.
- Purdue OWL - Quoting, Paraphrasing, and SummarizingThis handout is intended to help you become more comfortable with the uses of and distinctions among quotations, paraphrases, and summaries. This handout compares and contrasts the three terms, gives some pointers, and includes a short excerpt that you can use to practice these skills.
- WorldCat.orgWorld Cat can help you format your citations in Chicago Style. Enter the book title, find the correct edition, author, publisher, etc. Then click on CITE/EXPORT and select Chicago style. Then you can copy this citation into your bibliography. Be sure to double check with the Handbook for Historians that the citation was formatted properly!
Add Bibliography after notes page
Workshop Presentation
Here is the PowerPoint presentation on creating a bibliography from a library workshop given on 3/3/2010.