Formatting endnotes in accordance with the Chicago Manual of
Style
If you are using Microsoft Word to write a paper adhering to the
Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) guidelines for citations
that appear in the
endnotes section of the paper, references to endnotes should be made
in the paper using Arabic numerals at the end of sentences with
the numbers put in superscript.
Example
Ludwig considered it an honor that his books were among those burned by the Nazis in 1933.1
Endnote
1. Emil Ludwig, Three Portraits: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin (New York:
Alliance Book Corporation: 1940), 49.
You can configure Microsoft Word for CMS style citations by clicking on the
References tab and then selecting a Chicago option for the
Style option. Microsoft Word 2010 lists "Chicago Fifteenth Edition"
as the CMS option.
You can select Arabic numerals for the endnotes by clicking on the
small arrowhead that points diagonally downwards to the right at the
lower, right-hand corner of the References options block.
On the Footnote and Endnote window that appears,
select Endnotes and change the number format to "1, 2, 3, ..."
If the text isn't already 12 point Times New Roman for endnotes, you can
change the font to 12 point Times New Roman by highlighting endnotes you have
entered and selecting that font and font size from beneath the Home tab
of the Word menu bar. You can still right-click on an
endnote in the endnotes secton and choose "Go to Endnote" to be taken to
the reference in the body of the paper.
The endnotes section should have the
word "Notes" centered at the top of the first page of endnotes. If you wish to
remove the horizontal line that Word puts at the top of each page for the
endnotes, take the following steps:
Click on one of the superscript numbers in the body of
your paper for a citation to be taken to the endnotes section of the paper.
Click on View on the menu bar at the top of the
Word window and change the view from "Print Layout" to "Draft."
Click on References at the top of the
Word Window to see the options for footnotes and endnotes.
Click on Show Notes. You should then
see an endnotes pane open at the bottom of the Word window.
There will be a drop down list next to "Endnotes" with "All Endnotes"
selected by default. Pick "Endnote Separator," instead.
Click at the end of the line you see drawn beneath "Endnote Separator"
and then hit the backspace key to delete it.
The above step will remove the line
from the top of the first page of endnotes. To remove the line from
subsequent pages of endnotes, you need to repeat step 5, but select
"Endnote Continuation Separator" instead of "Endnote Separator" and
then delete the horizontal line shown for it as well.
You can then click on the View tab again and change the view
back to "Print Layout."
Note: the instructions above are for Microsoft Word 2010 on a Microsoft
Windows system, but should be similar for other recent versions.
