Sample citations, Chicago Manual of Style

First, you'll need to know how to create a superscript citation.  Place the cursor where you want the superscript number to go.  In Word (pre-2007), go to the task bar and click on "insert."  Then click on "reference," then click on "footnote."  A box will pop up with several choices.  The choices usually default to footnotes (rather than endnotes), and to arabic numerals, etc.  It's fine to leave the defaults just the way you find them.  Click on "insert" at the bottom of that box.  Word will automatically create a footnote at the bottom of the page.  Type in the citations in the appropriate format below, and when you're done you can scroll back up to where your cursor was in the document.  Continue typing.  All citations should continue in serial order, with a separate number for each (see Franklin's autobiography for an example).  You can insert as many notes as you need -- and if you realize that you missed a citation at the beginning or in the middle of a document, you can go back and insert one in the manner described above -- Word will automatically renumber the citations. 

Note that, for Franklin's autobiography, you do not need to begin with his name, because the author's name appears in the title.  Otherwise, you would need to include the author's name first (as in Madam Knight's travel journal, because her full name doesn't appear in the title, only her last name is in the title.)

If you are citing our sources in Chicago Manual, use the following formats:

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, With Related Documents, ed. Louis P. Masur, 2d ed., (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003), 67-68.

Subsequent citations after the first, full citation, can just be:

Franklin, 67-68.

For Mm. Knight:

Sarah Kemble Knight, Journal of Madam Knight, ed. Perry Miller & Thomas H. Johnson, at Ellen H. Pearson, Our Stories course website, http://facstaff.unca.edu/epearson/knight_journal.htm. 

Subsequent citations after the first, full citation:

Knight, http://facstaff.unca.edu/epearson/knight_journal.htm. 

Note that the web address is this document's "page number," so it needs to appear in subsequent citations.