If you are accustomed to a citation style like MLA that puts parenthetical citations inside the punctuation, this difference may take some adjustment. The superscript footnote number always goes outside the punctuation (period, quotations). Estill, Vision Realized: History of Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, TX: Sam Houston Press, 1970), 12. It is interesting to note that 'a large majority of the first students in Sam Houston Normal Institute were State or scholarship students.' 1ġ. At the bottom of the page, that same number (not in superscript, but in normal font) will appear, followed by a citation for the source.

The words of the quote or idea in your paper will be followed by a number written in superscript (meaning it is smaller than and set a little higher than the surrounding text ). You will use a footnote every time you include a quote or an idea from a source.

But the citation for a particular quote, paraphrase, or other reference is done differently in Chicago. You might be familiar with using parenthetical citations in citation styles like MLA: for instance, 'This is a quote from Charles Dickens' (Dickens 32).

Chicago style footnote citation