Zotero ships with four variants of the Chicago style (formatted examples of each style are shown below). The author-date format is most popular in the physical, natural, and social sciences, whereas researchers in literary, historical, and artistic fields mostly use note-based styles. For the note-based variants, the notes can either be self-explanatory (Full Note with Bibliography and Note without Bibliography), or serve as a reference to a bibliographic entry (Note with Bibliography).

• Chicago Manual of Style (Author-Date format)
  • in-text citation: (Jenkins 2006)
  • bibliographic entry: Jenkins, Henry. 2006. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: NYU Press.
• Chicago Manual of Style (Full Note with Bibliography)
  • note: Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: NYU Press, 2006.
  • bibliographic entry: Jenkins, Henry. 2006. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: NYU Press.
• Chicago Manual of Style (Note with Bibliography)
  • note: Jenkins, Convergence Culture, 56.
  • bibliographic entry: Jenkins, Henry. 2006. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: NYU Press.
• Chicago Manual of Style (Note without Bibliography)
  • note: Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (New York: NYU Press, 2006), 56.