To write a paper in Chicago style, you follow the formatting guidelines laid out by the Chicago Manual of Style. This means you include 1-inch margins on all sides, double space, use justified left text, and indent new paragraphs. Chicago style also recommends the use of Time New Roman 12 pt.

Chicago Style Bibliographies For published, print sources, instructions for listing sources in a Chicago Bibliography are the same as for an MLA Works Cited page. For unpublished or electronic sources, listings in a Chicago Bibliography are slightly different than for an MLA Works Cited.

Most of the differences between Chicago (Turabian) and APA Styles involve in-text citations. Both styles include the last name of the author and a page number in parentheses for the in-text citation. APA Style also includes the year of publication of the source, but Chicago (Turabian) Style does not.

In Chicago style: The title page does not include a header or page number (see sample research paper).