The text should be typed and printed on standard-sized paper (8.5” x 11”) and should include consistent margins of no less than 1” and no greater than 1.5” on all sides. This slide presents the general format of a Chicago-styled paper: These instructor or journal-specific guidelines should always supersede the more general recommendations of the manuals. Many instructors who require their students to use Chicago formatting and citation style, however, have small exceptions to different Chicago rules the same way that journals in the field may bend some of the more formal formatting and style regulations to better suit their needs. Consistency and readability are of upmost importance in this regard. In other words, regulation of stylistics and document format, in-text citations, and end-of-text citations is important for avoiding plagiarism, building author credibility, and facilitating scholastic discourse, not necessarily in that order. “Ethics, copyright laws, and courtesy to readers require authors to identify the sources of direct quotation or paraphrases and of any facts or opinions not generally known or easily checked” (The University of Chicago 2010, 655). “Regardless of the convention being followed, the primary criterion of any source citation is sufficient information either to lead readers directly to the sources consulted or.
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