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 and come with or without a bibliography (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: (Adams 2002, 12)
  • bibliographic entry: Adams, Douglas. 2002. The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. New York: Del Rey.
• Chicago Manual of Style (Full Note with Bibliography)
  • note: Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (New York: Del Rey, 2002), 12.
  • bibliographic entry: Adams, Douglas. The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. New York: Del Rey, 2002.
• Chicago Manual of Style (Note with Bibliography)
  • note: Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 12.
  • bibliographic entry: Adams, Douglas. The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. New York: Del Rey, 2002.
• Chicago Manual of Style (Note without Bibliography)
  • note: Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (New York: Del Rey, 2002), 12.