

What’s the difference between footnotes and endnotes?.

The information in this guide follows the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (the 17th edition) but this guide is not affiliated with the CMOS. Notes are most commonly used in fields of study like the humanities (e.g., literature, history, and the arts). Depending on whether your notes use full or shortened citations, you may also need to include a bibliography.

The notes-bibliography citation style in Chicago uses a system of numbered notes (either footnotes or endnotes) to cite sources. This guide has everything you need to get started with notes in Chicago style.
