The Chicago style of referencing comes in two varieties: The notes and bibliography system is often used in humanities disciplines such as literature, history, and the arts. This style of referencing requires in-text footnotes when citing, as well as a bibliography at the end of your document listing all of the works you have cited and any other works. A Chicago-style bibliography lists the sources cited in your text. Each bibliographic entry begins with the author's name and source title, followed by relevant publication details. The bibliography is listed alphabetically by authors' last names. A bibliography is not required, but is strongly recommended for all articles except very short articles. The Chicago style offers two different citation styles: the Notes-Bibliography NB style, the preferred format for articles written in the humanities, and the Author-Date style. . In Notes-Bibliography style, you indicate that you have authored, paraphrased, or referenced a source by adding a superscript number at the end of the. A footnote, or Chicago-style citation, should always end with a period. Notes should be separated from the main body of the text by a typed length in inches. Notes are single-spaced and the first line of each footnote is indented two spaces from the page margin. Double space between each note. When writing an article in Chicago style, here are the guidelines to follow for the sake of simplicity, the term "Chicago" is used here. To automatically generate accurate Chicago references, you can use Scribbr's free Chicago citation generator: Chicago Citation Generator. To apply the Chicago format: Use a standard pt font. New times.