The document provides an overview of using Chicago style citations in academic papers, highlighting the differences from MLA style such as using footnotes instead of parenthetical citations and including a bibliography rather than a works cited page. It also discusses finding and using primary sources for research, noting that primary sources provide the closest perspective to the original event or work. Library resources for research including databases, research guides, and librarian assistance are also mentioned.

1. UPresearch.LoneStar.edu/Truax-recon

2. Librarian Lesson:
Primary Sources, Chicago, &
Other Quietly Great Things
Prof. Truax | History
Librarian (Digital Resource Professional): Elaine M. Patton

3. Pick Your Own Adventure
Chicago
Style
Primary
Sources
Library
Resources

4. Chicago Manual of Style
We’re not in MLA anymore, Toto.

5. Quick Facts
• Paper structure
• MLA comparisons

6. The Major Paper Components
1. Title page
2. The paper itself
3. Bibliography
1 CMS
paper
≥ 3
pages

7. Page Set-up
Stick with size 12, Times New Roman font
Mostly double-spaced everywhere
Margins: stick with 1”
Pretty MLA-ish so far…

8. A Subtle Difference:
Page numbering starts with your actual paper
Title page is page 0, basically
Different!

9. This is the Title of Your
Paper
Margaret Carter
HIST 1301: United States History to 1877
January 19, 2017
~ 1/3 down
~ 2/3 down
Different!

10. The Paper Itself
The usual:
Left-justified (as opposed to centered)
Tab/indent new paragraphs

11. Page numbers start
with your actual,
real content.
Also,
footnotes!

12. Citations
Notes and Bibliography
system

13. IT’S ALWAYS THE SAME 4 THINGS:
WHO
wrote it
WHAT
did they call it
WHEN
was it published
WHERE
did it appear

14. Notes and Bibliography?
In-text citations use footnotes, not parentheses.
Bibliography = a Works Cited/References by any other
name…

15. Notes on Footnotes
Numbered consecutively, even when referring
to the same source multiple times
So you have footnotes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5…
Not 1, 2, 3, 1, 1, 4, 2, 5

16. Notes on Footnotes
First time using a source: full footnote
Second+ times: condensed note

17. Notes on Footnotes
Full note:
1. Nancy Tousley, "Tracing a History: Gisele
Amantea," Canadian Art 20, no. 1 (2003): 64.
Different!

18. Notes on Footnotes
Second+ times: condensed note
3. Tousley, "Tracing a History," 64.
Change page # as
appropriate, of course.

19. Notes on Footnotes
Comparison + Example:
1. Nancy Tousley, "Tracing a History: Gisele
Amantea," Canadian Art 20, no. 1 (2003): 64.
2. Valerie Bunce, "Rethinking Recent Democritization:
Lessons from the Postcommunist Experience," World
Politics 55, no. 2 (2003): 168, http://muse.jhu.edu/.
3. Tousley, "Tracing a History," 64.

20. Notes on Footnotes: Ibid.
For when you use the same source several times in
a row (try not to do this very often)
Just attach page number!
Ibid., 64
Ibid., 75

21. Adding Footnotes
Word makes it easy!
References > Insert Footnote
REPEAT AS NECESSARY.
DONE.

22. Putting it back in
context:
Footnote numbers in superscript
(added by Word):
Actual footnotes down here (also
added by Word):

23. OTHER USES FOR
FOOTNOTES
• Adding notes and
commentary!
• Suggesting additional
sources to your
reader!
Example from Purdue OWL,
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/11/
Different!

24. Bibliography Deja Vu
It will feel just like your
footnotes, but different.
Also MLA-ish, but different.

25. Bibliography
The
hanging
indent
returns!
But here’s
more single
spacing!
2 lines
after
title
1 line
after
cite
Different!
Alphabetical

26. Primary Sources
Grade-A Prime Steak Sources.

27. Primary:
Closest to the source
Secondary:
Pulls from the source Tertiary:
Summarizes secondary

28. Frame of Reference Matters!
Fictional novels = primary source when analyzing the
literature
A lab research report (original findings) is a primary
source for that subject
An interview with Neil DeGrasse Tyson:
Secondary with regards to Pluto
Primary with regards to Tyson himself

29. Where to Find
Databases:
ProQuest Historical
Newspapers
New York Times
History Study Center
The Internet (yay public
domain!)
[topic] primary source
[topic] newspaper
[topic] diary
[topic] eyewitness

30. UPresearch.LoneStar.edu/PrimarySources
Online guide (non-
exhaustive) to places
to look for primary
sources in.
A primary source
source, if you will.

31. Library Resources
Beyond the books.

32. Databases!
Needed:
library barcode

33. Research Guides!
UPresearch.LoneStar.edu

34. Your librarian!

35. Other librarians!
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