The Chicago Manual of Style [antikvár]

Preface Bowing to what has become nearly universal usage, we have made a title change with this edition of the Manual of Style, and now call it what everybody else calls it, The Chicago Manual of Style— or, for short, The Chicago Manual. Two pervasive features characterize the present edition: it reflects the impact of the new technology on the entire editing and publishing process, and it spells out, in greater detail and with many more examples, the procedures with which it deals. It is, in short, much more a "how-to" book for authors and editors than was its predecessor. In chapter 2, for example, a new section has been added on how to mark a manuscript and how to mark the type specifications on a script. Chapter 12, completely rewritten, begins with advice on how to make a table from raw data. Chapters 15 through 17, reorganized and greatly expanded, offer many more alternative methods of citation—the emphasis being on the most practical—and provide a wealth of examples. In chapter 18, clear step-by-step procedures for the mechanics of index making are set forth. The terminology and methodology of technological advances (in word processing, computerized electronic typesetting, and the like) are reflected most prominently in chapter 20, "Composition, Printing, and Binding" (new to this edition), and in the Glossary, which now emphasizes typesetting and printing terms, excluding many items, formerly included, that were applicable only to the publisher's function. Other notable features of the present edition are chapter 4 ("Rights and Permissions"), rewritten in light of the new copyright law, and chapter 9 ("Foreign Languages"), which includes a new table of diacritics, a pinyin (Chinese) conversion chart, and data on several more languages. Although this thirteenth edition reflects the publishing arts of our own day, its editors have built upon foundations laid down by their predecessors. The earliest of these foundations were probably coeval with the establishment of the Press itself, in 1891. A single sheet of typographic style fundamentals drawn up by the first proofreader for his—or her—own guidance had by 1901 become a slender "Style Book: Adopted and in Use for University Publications." The first published version of the Press's style rules. vn