This template contains pre-settings for the essential features of Chicago format: margins, indentations, font, line spacing, and widow/orphan control. To use this template, select “File–Save As” and save the template under a new name. Then use type-over insertions to replace the title and the text in the body of the template, or delete the body text in blocks. (Hint: Leave the sample block quotation in place to preserve its paragraph indentation and the triple spacing before and after it, as a model. Use type-over insertions in the page of notes to preserve the format and indentations.) Here, then, is a sample block quotation: A quotation that occupies more than four typed lines should be indented five spaces from the left margin, double spaced, without quotation marks at the beginning and end. Its right margin should be set at 1″. Triple spacing is best handled in Microsoft Word by creating section breaks and setting one line before and after the block at “Exactly: 18 points.” The citation superscript should be placed after the block’s last item of punctuation.1 I suggest printing this template to make sure that your printer is properly configured. This page should print as 17 double-spaced lines, plus a block quotation of eight lines preceded and followed by triple spacing, plus a header.
