Chicago Style Workout 20: Abbreviation of Names and Titles
This workout centers on paragraphs 10.13–24 in CMOS 18. Advanced editors might tackle the questions cold; learners can study that section of the Manual before answering.
Help! I Have to Use Chicago Style!
What is “style,” and what does it have to do with Chicago? And which book or website is the official source for someone required to use Chicago style in their work?
From E-mail to Email: Is the Sky Falling?
One of the most tweeted updates to The Chicago Manual of Style in the recently released 17th edition was its change in the recommended spelling of email: no more hyphen. On the whole, the reaction of users
How Not to Look at Illustrations in The Chicago Manual of Style
As a reader of the email that comes to The Chicago Manual of Style, I regularly find myself explaining the purpose of the illustrations (figures and tables) to puzzled users. Two recent queries:
Chicago Style Workout 19: Plurals
This workout centers on paragraphs 7.5–15 in CMOS 18. Advanced editors might tackle the questions cold; learners can study that section of the Manual before answering.
Section 2.12 in the Spotlight
In a typed document, each new paragraph should begin with a first-line indent, applied either with the Tab key or with your word processor’s indentation feature rather than the Space bar. One-half inch is the traditional measure for an indent. Exceptions:
Rachel Toor talks about college admissions essays
Rachel Toor is professor of creative writing at Eastern Washington University in Spokane. Her new book is Write Your Way In: Crafting an Unforgettable College Admissions Essay.
Happy Publication Day!
Our Chicago warehouse has been working hard to ship tens of thousands of copies of the Manual. Here’s a peek at the books as they prepare to head out to desks around the world.
Toast with us as we celebrate the new edition
Who says editors don’t know how to party? Today at the University of Chicago Press we toasted the arrival of the 17th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. The Manual has been underway almost since the moment the 16th edition arrived, and this celebration topped seven years of work. Missing from this get-together were…
Chicago Style Workout 18: Hyphens, Part 2
This workout centers on section 2, “Compounds According to Parts of Speech,” in our extended hyphenation table under paragraph 7.96 in CMOS 18.
