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- Hi, I'm Melissa from the AC Library.
In this video, I'll show you how to format your paper
for the Chicago style.
It's also called the Turabian Style using Google Docs.
If you need help using Microsoft Word,
check out those videos.
Google Docs is available to everybody at AC
through the AC Connect portal.
Click on this button even if this isn't your computer.
This just keeps the computer from thinking you're inactive
and kicking you out when you're actually still working.
Then log in
with your usual AC connect username and password.
Get into your email,
and then once you're in your account, click on this button
to open up Google Apps and select Docs.
If you've already worked on things in here,
you'll see those documents down here under recent,
but to start fresh, select Blank.
And by the way, Google Docs helps you out
because it auto saves everything you do.
You don't have to hunt for that save button,
it's got you covered.
Now, there are actually two types of the Chicago style,
the bibliography style, which is more commonly used
and is what I'll describe here,
and the author-date style, which is more like MLA and APA
and is not typically required at AC,
but be careful when you use programs
and tools that help you set up your citations
and make sure that you pick the bibliography style.
in the EBSCO databases this is listed
as the humanities version, which I'll show you later.
Chicago doesn't require only one font and size.
You can choose Times New Roman, which is the standard,
the one that the other styles typically require
and what I'll use,
but technically you can instead use Courier or Helvetica.
The font size has to be between 10 and 12.
I'll just use the more standard 12 here.
Most of the paper needs to be double spaced.
Use this button right here.
Margins are supposed to be one inch all around,
but for some reason Google Docs doesn't quite get this right
when you set it to one inch, so use 0.75.
Click on the menu tab file and then select page setup,
and here's where you can enter 0.75 in each of these spots.
Trust me, I've used a ruler
and this setting gets it right when you print your document.
Chicago style usually includes a title page,
but of course if you're instructor says
you don't need one, be sure to comply.
What I'm explaining
in this video is just general information,
but here's a sample of
what a title page would look like
with the title of your paper,
about a quarter of the way down the page,
and then about three quarters of the way down your name,
then your class such as History 1301 a colon,
and then the name of your class in this example,
United States History 1.
If you don't already know this information about your class,
you can find it in Blackboard right here,
or in your syllabus here.
On the last line, include the date
that you're submitting the paper.
To check that you're placing the lines
in about the right spots on your paper,
you can use this zoom button and pick either 75% or 50%.
You'll start your actual paper on the next page.
Here's an example of what a first page should look like,
and notice that this is the page
that has the number one inserted in the top right corner.
Use the header area of the document to insert page numbers.
I find it easiest to just point my cursor to the very top
of the page and then double click.
Click on Insert, then hover over page number,
and then select this one right here that shows a cover page
with no page number,
and then the next full page
of the document beginning with the one.
Don't ever just type the number one on your first page.
If you use this insert page number feature,
the system will automatically change
all of your page numbers for you
as your paper grows and changes.
Okay, so now to get this number aligned correctly,
change the line spacing to just single,
and this will only affect this header area,
and then hit enter to move it down just a bit.
Now click on this button to bump it over
to the right side of the page.
Finally, make sure this is set to times new Roman 12
or whatever font and size you chose.
Okay, that's all I'll show you in this video,
but please watch the next one in this series
where I'll show you how to insert footnotes.
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