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This template is a "shorthand" template for creating a properly formatted reference citation to The Chicago Manual of Style 16th Ed. (current as of February 2012, without having to specify all the parameters of {}. The CMoS most often cited in articles on grammar and style, and in Wikipedia's own WP:Manual of Style.
The Chicago Manual of Style is published in hardcover and online. The online edition includes the searchable text of the 16th through 18th—its most recent—editions with features such as tools for editors, a citation guide summary, and searchable access to a Q&A, where University of Chicago Press editors answer readers' style questions.
The notes-bibliography style (also known as the "notes and bibliography style" or "notes style") is "popular in the humanities—including literature, history, and the arts." This style has sources cited in "numbered footnotes or endnotes" with "each note correspond[ing] to a raised (superscript) number in the text."
Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana, launched the first OWL, in 1994. Its OWL is freely available online to all, and includes handouts, specific subject information, resources geared towards students in grades 7–12, [1] and citation formatting help with MLA, APA and other forms. [2]
Names for footnotes and groups must follow these rules: Names are case-sensitive. Please do not use raNdOM capitalization. Names must not be purely numeric; the software will accept something like ":31337" (which is punctuation plus a number), but it will ignore "31337" (purely numeric).
Jonathan, if you don't use any templates, you'll find the text must easier to edit. For example, <ref>Smith 2006</ref> will produce your footnote and hardly disturbs the text at all. You then give a full citation for Smith 2006 in the References section. SlimVirgin (talk) 06:25, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
This is the format recommended by the Chicago Manual of Style. "Note reference numbers. The superior numerals used for note reference numbers in the text should follow any punctuation marks except the dash, which they precede. The numbers should also be placed outside closing parentheses."
Footnote text. Defaults to "Citation". Examples. Citation of citations. ^ Citation of citations. 2. ^ Citation of citations. ^ a b c Citation of citations.