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The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition Sixteenth Edition
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The sixteenth edition offers expanded information on producing electronic publications, including web-based content and e-books. An updated appendix on production and digital technology demystifies the process of electronic workflow and offers a primer on the use of XML markup, and a revised glossary includes a host of terms associated with electronic as well as print publishing. The Chicago system of documentation has been streamlined and adapted for a variety of online and digital sources. Figures and tables are updated throughout the book—including a return to the Manual’s popular hyphenation table and new, comprehensive listings of Unicode numbers for special characters.
With the wisdom of a hundred years of editorial practice and a wealth of industry expertise from both Chicago’s staff and an advisory board of publishing professionals, The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition, is an invaluable resource in this rapidly changing world. If you work with words—no matter what the delivery medium—this is the one reference you simply must have.
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“The Sixteenth Edition of the Chicago Manual of Style is here, and it's hard for some of us to contain our excitement. . . . For those of us who spend our days worrying over words, there really is something thrilling—or at least comforting—about the arrival of the newest incarnation of this venerable guide.”
― New Yorker Book Bench Blog“Bound, famously, in orange and thicker with each new edition, the 104-year-old reference classic has kept watch over the publication of hundreds of great books and thousands of not-so-great ones, an arbiter and aide-de-camp for editors trying to decide how to handle items in a list, punctuation within quotes or, these days, the proper hexadecimal code for the German double low-9 quotation mark (201E, as you probably suspected).” -- Steve Johnson ― Chicago Tribune
"For over one hundred years, The Chicago Manual of Style has been setting and defending stylistic standards. In a world where we often communicate with just our thumbs and publish our thoughts from 30,000 feet in the air, we need something to ground us, to solve the little problems, to give us answers we never knew we needed, and to make us beam (or scream) with solutions to the dilemma of the omitted antecedent of a relative pronoun."
-- Stranger ― Seattle“The new go-to publishing manual is here! Responding to the demands made of publishing professionals in the digital age, the 16th edition continues to provide information for word lovers but has enhanced its guidelines to include electronic workflow and processes. . . . This venerable bible also has a new pastel blue bookjacket to alert users to the style, usage, and technology updates within, though the familiar orange cloth lies below. A worthy, welcome addition to every library collection as well as professional wordsmiths and educated readers of all persuasions.”
― Library Journal"The 16th edition has been restructured for digital publishing, making it more relevant, and has stopped waffling on many rules, making it easier to use. If you already use CMS, I’d strongly urge you to update to the 16th edition. It’s not a small update, and it just may resolve many of the issues you’ve been dealing with." -- Erin Brenner ― The Writing Resource
“CMS is marked by unfaltering good sense; and a good index and numbered paragraphs make it easily navigable. . . . Such is the book’s scope that it addresses itself to everything from the most straightforward conventions of layout . . . to submission requirements for authors and broader concerns such as editorial judgment.”
-- Catharine Morris ― Times Literary Supplement“Chicago’s granite-solid strength abides in the familiar guidance generations of editors and scholars have depended upon—how to treat punctuation, names, numbers, tables, quotations, dialogue, abbreviations, etc. Users will welcome the streamlined approach to documentation, introducing greater consistency between the author-date and the notes-bibliography citation systems. This is the first edition of The Chicago Manual of Style to be published simultaneously in print and online. Either way, no library serving serious authors can be without it.”
― Booklist“[The sixteenth edition] is nothing if not acutely digitally aware. . . . Efficient, intuitive navigation and searching are the hallmark of CMS 16 online.”
-- Charles M. Levin ― Copyediting“This iteration has a jacket the calming shade of a robin's egg or one of those old Mac screens, and you can imagine a weary copy editor cooling her tired brow against it. It has about a hundred more pages than the fourteenth and a crisper font.”
-- Ed Park ― Bookforum“The online version of the manual provides a clean, intuitive interface for users accustomed to print reference sources, with a hyperlinked table of contents on the main page.”
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- ISBN-13978-0226104201
- EditionSixteenth
- PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
- Publication dateAugust 1, 2010
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6 x 2.3 x 9 inches
- Print length1026 pages
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- Publisher : University of Chicago Press; Sixteenth edition (August 1, 2010)
- Language : English
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- ISBN-10 : 9780226104201
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- Dimensions : 6 x 2.3 x 9 inches
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And I continue to be surprised by how the need for the information in this book pops up in life. A friend was writing a letter in which he quoted a long passage from somebody else. How, my friend asked, was he to handle these long passages? My instinct was that he should quote them as set-off passages, or block quotations, and I knew that if he did that, he should not use quotation marks around the set-off passages. But, I wondered, were there guidelines for how much to indent the block passage on the left and right? Should the type size of the block passage be smaller than the type size of the body of his letter? This was important to my friend, so I felt I couldn't go by mere instinct. Out came the CMS. We quickly found the information, my friend applied it, and we both felt good: my friend because he was confident his letter was correctly formatted, me because I had been able to help by consulting an authority.
One usage that continually plagues me is when and whether to use the apostrophe-s after proper words or numbers referred to as words ("How many do's are in that verse?"). I have to look this up almost every time I need to know. Each time I need to know, I'm so glad to have the CMS on hand.
And finally: for those who continually misuse the nominative case for the objective ("The invitation is addressed to you and I."), please check Section 5.36, page 212. Read it many times. Place a bookmark there. Consult frequently.
I found an unexpected pleasure in using the Manual again, rediscovering a sense of the familiar and a long-tested accretion of editorial wisdom and guidance. The Manual now sits among my most treasured reference works, just an arm's length away.
Several times I found the cross-referencing system, in my view, left something to be desired. Closely related technical details were not always where I expected them to be, or they did not address my particular issue at the time. Maybe this was my inexperience with the 16th Edition. However, I found the Manual indispensable.
My advice to anyone who is about to write or is writing a book, get a copy now and prepare your manuscript correctly at the start. If I had done so, I would have had an easier time getting ready to go to press.
Earl B. Russell, Author
Cold Turkey at Nine
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Im Layout hing ich häufig an einfachen kleinen Fragen (Seitennummern für Inhaltsverzeichnis? Wohin kommt das Vorwort? Wie ist das mit den Titelseiten?) die ich mit dem Buch rasch und eindeutig klären konnte. Keiner meiner Gutachter hat etwas in Frage gestellt - aber wenn hätte ich mich in den Entscheidungen auf den Standard berufen können.
Aber: Das braucht man nur wenn man ganz genau arbeiten will (und in vielen anderen Werken sehe ich jetzt klare "Fehler")