Helpful Resources
- OWL Purdue
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material. It's a great place to go to look up standard writing practices and for tricky citation situations.
CMOS Book
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The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition
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Technologies may change, but the need for clear and accurate communication never goes out of style. That is why for more than one hundred years The Chicago Manual of Style has remained the definitive guide for anyone who works with words. In the seven years since the previous edition debuted, we have seen an extraordinary evolution in the way we create and share knowledge. This seventeenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style has been prepared with an eye toward how we find, create, and cite information that readers are as likely to access from their pockets as from a bookshelf. It offers updated guidelines on electronic workflows and publication formats, tools for PDF annotation and citation management, web accessibility standards, and effective use of metadata, abstracts, and keywords. It recognizes the needs of those who are self-publishing or following open access or Creative Commons publishing models. The citation chapters reflect the ever-expanding universe of electronic sources--including social media posts and comments, private messages, and app content--and also offer updated guidelines on such issues as DOIs, time stamps, and e-book locators. Other improvements are independent of technological change. The chapter on grammar and usage includes an expanded glossary of problematic words and phrases and a new section on syntax as well as updated guidance on gender-neutral pronouns and bias-free language. Key sections on punctuation and basic citation style have been reorganized and clarified. To facilitate navigation, headings and paragraph titles have been revised and clarified throughout. And the bibliography has been updated and expanded to include the latest and best resources available. This edition continues to reflect expert insights gathered from Chicago's own staff and from an advisory board of publishing experts from across the profession. It also includes suggestions inspired by emails, calls, and even tweets from readers. No matter how much the means of communication change, The Chicago Manual of Style remains the ultimate resource for those who care about getting the details right.
Call Number: Z253 .U69 2017ISBN: 9780226287058Publication Date: 2017-09-05
This guide is based on the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition (CMOS). If you do not find what you need in this guide, refer to the print version of CMOS, which is held in the Library.
How do I use the style?
The Chicago style involves two tasks:
▪ How you reference sources through numbered footnote (or endnote) citation as opposed to in-text citation.
▪ How you compile a list of reference sources at the end of your text (Bibliography).
Chicago is a documentation syle that has been published by the Chicago University Press since 1906. This citation style incorporates rules of grammar and punctuation common in American English. Typically, the Chicago style presents two basic documentation systems:
(1) notes and bibliography is preferred by many in the humanities, including those in literature, history, and the arts
(2) author-date has long been used by those in the physical, natural, and social sciences.
The notes and bibliography style presents bibliographic information in notes and, often, a bibliography. This guide supports the notes and bibliography style.
Attribution
This guide is reused and adapted with permission from :
University of Pittsburg, Library System: https://pitt.libguides.com/citationhelp/chicago
Mohawk Valley Community College, Library: https://mvcc.libguides.com/cite_sources/chicagoguide
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