Your teacher's name, course title and block, and date should be written in three lines and centered at the bottom of the page.Center your name directly under the title.

Ask your teacher if it is ok to print two-sided.(A five-page paper may also have a cover page, two pages of notes and one page of bibliography which is nine pieces of paper.) Number straight through from the first text page to the final bibliography page but do not count any pages after the end of the text as part of your page count. It's a good idea to include your last name as well, in case pages become separated. Number the pages in the top right corner of the paper, beginning with the first page of text.Use a 1/2' indent for paragraph beginnings, block quotes and hanging (bibliography) indents.

Do not use fully (newspaper-style) justified text.

Use left-justified text, which will have a ragged right edge.

Use Times or Times New Roman 12 pt font.

One inch margins on sides, top and bottom.

It is easiest if you use the correct settings from the beginning otherwise you will have to go back and reformat your paper. Use the following guidelines when setting up your paper.

Subsequent lines within a footnote should be formatted flush left.Your teachers expect to receive papers that are properly formatted and laid out.

The first line of a footnote is indented.

In the notes themselves, note numbers are full-sized, not raised, and followed by a period.

Note numbers should be placed at the end of the clause or sentence to which they refer and should be placed after any and all punctuation.

In the text, note numbers are superscripted.

Note numbers should begin with “1” and follow consecutively throughout a given paper.

Titles of larger works (e.g., books and journals) are italicized titles of smaller works (e.g., chapters, articles) or unpublished works are presented in roman and enclosed in quotation marks (see 8.161).

Authors’ names are presented in standard order (first name first).

A footnote or endnote generally lists the author, title, and facts of publication, in that order.

Newton N. Minow and Craig L. LaMay, Inside the Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past and Promising Future (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 24–25. Example of basic Chicago bibliography entryġ.

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