Research Help for PLS-135 & 136

Unlike the APA and MLA, The Chicago Manual of Style provides two alternative formats: the (1) Author-Date Style and (2) Notes & Bibliography style. Consult with your instructor to determine which of the systems you should use.

• AUTHOR-DATE STYLE: The author-date system is used by those in the physical, natural, and social sciences. In this system, sources are briefly cited in the text, usually in parentheses, by author’s last name and date of publication. The short citations are amplified in a list of references, where full bibliographic information is provided.
• NOTES & BIBLIOGRAPHY STYLE : The notes and bibliography system is preferred by many in the humanities, including those in literature, history, and the arts. This style presents bibliographic information in notes and, often, a bibliography. It accommodates a variety of sources, including esoteric ones less appropriate to the author-date system.

Save time by using Microsoft Word to format the hanging indent:

[1] Select the text you would like to format (you can select your entire list of citations, for example, to format all at once)

[2] From the Home tab in Word, select the arrow next to Paragraph

[3] Next, under Special, select Hanging

[4] Click OK.  Your selected text will now be formatted with a hanging indent.