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Chicago Style Title Page Format for Canadian Students

5 min read · For Canadian students

Exact Chicago Manual of Style title page layout for Canadian university essays.

A Chicago-style title page contains the paper title roughly one-third down the page, centred and in title case; your name, course code, instructor, and date stacked at the bottom centre. No page number appears on the title page itself. The title page is unnumbered; page numbering starts at 1 on the first page of body text.

Font: 12-point Times New Roman or another readable serif. The title may be set in slightly larger type (14-16 pt) but most Canadian instructors prefer 12 pt throughout.

Spacing on the title page: title is double-spaced if multi-line; the bottom block (name, course, date) is single-spaced.

Margins: 1 inch on all sides. No header on the title page.

Subtitle handling: place the subtitle on a new line below the title, separated by a colon at the end of the main title line.

Canadian universities sometimes require additional elements: student number, section number, or word count. Check your syllabus before formatting.

Avoid: bold, italics, underlining, or quotation marks around your own paper title on the title page.

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