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How Seminary Style Differs from Chicago Style

Are you wondering what the differences are between StyleEase for Seminary Style and StyleEase for Chicago/Turabian Style? This page describes those differences, which all have to do with the appearance of pages and styles:

Differences in paragraph formatting styles
Differences in page setup
Different title pages

Paragraph Formatting Differences

Style Name Chicago-style Seminary-style
Section Header 72 pts before 64 pts before, 12 pts after
TOC 1 .25" hanging indent .35" hanging indent
Front Matter Title 72 pts before,
Centered
64 pts before, 12 pts after
Heading 1 72 pts before, 36 pts after 64 pts before, 24 pts after

The bottom of the 1st line of the heading is 2" down from the top of the page
Heading 2 24 pts before, 12 pts after
12 pts before, 12 pts after
Heading 3 24 pts before, 12 pts after
Centered
12 pts before, 12 pts after
Left aligned
Heading 4 24 pts before, 12 pts after
Left aligned
Bold and italic
12 pts before
1st line indented .7"
Text follows immediately after bolded heading (no line break)
Block Quote Left indent .4" Left indent .35"
Block Quote (1st line indented) Left indent .4
1st line indented .25" more
Left indent .35"
1st line indented .35" more
Figure Caption 24 pts before, 36 pts after
Left aligned
Reads Fig. 1 (no punct)
24 pts before, 36 pts after
Center aligned
Reads Figure 1: (with colon)
Table Caption   24 pts before, 12 pts after
Centered
Caption is above table
Page numbering,
Running head
.5" down from top of page or .5" up from bottom of page .7" down from top of page or .7" up from bottom of pate
Footnote text First line .5" indent First line .7" indent

Page Setup Differences

The following table shows how page setup differs in Chicago and Seminary styles.

Document Setup Chicago-style Seminary-style
Document Setup Screen   Includes Approval Sheet (between the Copyright and Acknowledgements pages)

Includes Preface between the List of Tables and Chapter 1

Includes List of Abbreviations (between the Table of Contents and the and List of Figures)
List of Illustrations List of Figures
Works Cited Bibliography
Copyright Page Copyright date in upper right corner

Copyright and name centered

Double space after date

No date in upper right

Copyright, year, name on same line

All rights reserved paragraph single space below

Title Page Differences

The following table shows how title pages differ in Chicago and Seminary styles for certain StyleEase document types.

Document Type Chicago-style Seminary-style
Paper (Title page) Name Prof name

Class name and number

Date (Bolded)

Title
Body of paper
Standard Seminary title page

Body of text begins
on next page w/o heading

Title page is not counted in numbering
Term paper
(Title page)
Title By Name

Class name Class number

Prof Name

Date
Standard Seminary title page

Body of text begins next page w/o heading

Title page is not counted in numbering