 This video will walk you through the steps of using Chicago-Terrarian style with IRC Library resources. These resources will take you from format to reference and help you create a perfect Chicago paper. Chicago style is most often used in history and political science courses. You may also hear it referred to as Terrarian style, which is the student version of Chicago and follows the same guidelines but in a more streamlined format. Chicago style allows your instructors to quickly see where you incorporated information from outside sources into your paper. It also ensures that you do not plagiarize, which is a serious academic offense. For more information on why we cite, see the link to the citation video in the description below. To begin, go to irc.libguides.com. This will bring you to the library's Chicago resources and has everything that you need to create your paper. First, let's format our paper. Click on the formatting your paper link at the top of the page. This page provides information about Chicago's suggested fonts, spacings, and margins. This page also includes a downloadable paper template. We recommend this template over the one included in Microsoft Word because it was created specifically for IRC courses. You can download this template as many times as you'd like by clicking on the Chicago research paper template link at the top of the screen. As an IRC student, you can install Microsoft Office on up to five devices for free through your river mail. Once you download and open the template, you can see that it provides an example of a Chicago title page, the body of your paper, and your bibliography. Now that you have your template downloaded and ready, we can use the lib guide to create our bibliography entries. Hover over the reference examples link at the top of the page to select a source type to view. I'm using a scholarly article from a database in my paper, so I'll click on journal articles near the center of that list. This page gives me examples of different types of journals I might want to cite, so I can use the journal article from a database without a DOI as an example to create my reference entry. You'll notice that there are two types of reference examples, the footnote end note and the bibliography. This is because Chicago style allows for a traditional in-text citation which uses the author date style and footnotes that provide reference information at the bottom of each page. Always check with your instructor to see which style you should use in your paper. Each reference requires both an in-text citation or a footnote that signals where you have used information from outside sources within your paper and a bibliography that lists all your sources. If your instructor requires footnotes, you can add them by clicking in the references tab at the top of the screen in Microsoft Word and then the insert footnote box directly below. This will allow you to add your formatted footnote to the bottom of the page. Once you've finished your paper, click on the submit your paper for Chicago review link to have a librarian review your paper before you turn it in. It takes about a business day for a librarian to respond with comments, so make sure you allow yourself enough time for a librarian to give you feedback. Need more help with Chicago style? Check out irc.libguides.com slash ask a librarian for more ways to connect.