Many historians prefer the Chicago style for their manuals as it grants flexibility and a complex evidence trail. In this style, the use of superscript numbers distracts the reader less than parenthetical in-text citations. The result is that the reader can focus on the evidence instead of the information about the evidence published. Initially, it was intended as a citation guide for... https://gossips.blog/how-to-cite-a-phd-dissertation-in-chicago-style-top-5-rules/