Chicago referencing
Chicago citations from sources you control.
Two genuinely different styles under one name — a notes system and an author–date system — which is why briefs specifying only "Chicago" are worth querying.
How Chicago cites
Sources are cited by a superscript number pointing to a footnote carrying the full reference.
A bibliography usually accompanies the notes, and the two are formatted differently — the note is not simply the bibliography entry repeated.
Editions
Mindgrads renders Chicago edition 17. Briefs often name an edition, and the difference is not cosmetic — check the brief before you start rather than reformatting afterwards.
Variants that genuinely differ
Chicago has more than one system — notes-bibliography and author-date — and they produce different documents rather than different spacing. A brief that says only “Chicago” is worth querying with your marker.
What Mindgrads does
References come from sources you have added to the project, so a citation points at a document you uploaded rather than a title a model produced. In-text citations and the bibliography are generated from those records and rewritten together when you change style, and both are carried into DOCX and PDF export.
Formatting rules change between editions and institutions publish their own variants. Check the output against your course handbook before submitting — this is a tool for managing references, not a substitute for the requirements you were given.
Ready workspace
Start with the brief. Leave with a review-ready workflow.
Mindgrads keeps planning, source context, writing support, review, and export in one visible path.