The Chicago manual of style.
Edition: 16th ed.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226104201
Subjects: Printing -- Style manuals; Authorship -- Style manuals
Genres: Style manuals
Description: Provides information on manuscript preparation, punctuation, spelling, quotations, captions, tables, abbreviations, references, bibliographies, notes, and indexes, with sections on journals and electronic media.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The publishing process; title: Books and journals; title: Overview; title: The parts of a book; title: The parts of a journal; title: Considerations for web-based publications; title: Manuscript preparation, manuscript editing, and proofreading; title: Overview and process outline; title: Manuscript preparation guidelines for authors; title: Manuscript editing; title: Proofreading; title: Illustrations and tables; title: Overview; title: Illustrations; title: Tables; title: Rights, permissions, and copyright administration / by William S. Strong; title: Overview; title: Copyright law and the licensing of rights; title: The publishing agreement; title: Subsidiary rights and permissions; title: The author's responsibilities; title: Style and usage; title: Grammar and usage / by Bryan A. Garner; title: Grammar; title: Word usage; title: Punctuation; title: Overview; title: Punctuation in relation to surrounding text; title: Periods; title: Commas; title: Semicolons; title: Colons; title: Question marks; title: Exclamation points; title: Hyphens and dashes; title: Parentheses; title: Brackets and braces; title: Slashes; title: Quotation marks; title: Apostrophes; title: Multiple punctuation marks; title: Lists and outline style; title: Spelling, distinctive treatment of words, and compounds; title: Overview; title: Plurals; title: Possessives; title: Contractions and interjections; title: Word division; title: A and an, o and oh; title: Ligatures; title: Italics, capitals, and quotation marks; title: Compounds and hyphenation; title: Names and terms; title: Overview; title: Personal names; title: Titles and offices; title: Epithets, kinship names, and personifications; title: Ethnic, socioeconomic, and other groups; title: Names of places; title: Words derived from proper names; title: Names of organizations; title: Historical and cultural terms; title: Calendar and time designations; title: Religious names and terms; title: Military terms; title: Names of ships and other vehicles; title: Scientific terminology; title: Brand names and trademarks; title: Titles of works; title: Signs and mottoes; title: Numbers; title: Overview; title: Numerals versus words; title: Plurals and punctuation of numbers; title: Inclusive numbers; title: Roman numerals; title: Abbreviations; title: Overview; title: Names and titles; title: Geographical terms; title: Designations of time; title: Scholarly abbreviations; title: Biblical abbreviations; title: Technology and science; title: Business and commerce; title: Foreign languages; title: Overview; title: Titles and other proper names; title: Languages using the Latin alphabet; title: Languages usually transliterated (or romanized); title: Classical Greek; title: Old English and middle English; title: American sign language; title: Mathematics in type; title: Overview; title: Style of mathematical expressions; title: Preparation and editing of paper manuscripts; title: Quotations and dialogue; title: Overview; title: Permissible changes to quotations; title: Quotations in relation to text; title: Quotation marks; title: Ellipses; title: Interpolations and clarifications; title: Citing sources in text; title: Foreign-language quotations; title: Documentation; title: Documentation I: notes and bibliography; title: Source citations: an overview; title: Notes and bibliography: basic format, with examples and variations; title: Notes; title: Bibliographies; title: Books; title: Periodicals; title: Interviews and personal communications; title: Unpublished and informally published material; title: Special types of references; title: Audiovisual materials; title: Legal and public documents; title: Documentation II: author-date references; title: Overview; title: Author-date references: basic format, with examples and variations; title: Reference lists and text citations; title: Author-date references: special cases; title: Indexes; title: Overview; title: Components of an index; title: General principles of indexing; title: Indexing proper names and variants; title: Indexing titles of publications and other works; title: Alphabetizing; title: Punctuating indexes: a summary; title: The mechanics of indexing; title: Editing an index compiled by someone else; title: Typographical considerations for indexes; title: Examples of indexes; title: Appendix A: production and digital technology; title: Overview; title: Markup; title: Design; title: The electronic workflow; title: Options for presenting content; title: Print technologies; title: Appendix B: glossary.