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The Chicago Manual of Style – the preface to the fourteenth edition.

“A century ago, in the proofroom of the then very young University of Chicago Press, a solitary proofreader began jotting down on a single sheet of paper a few basic style rules.”

Who could have guessed from such meager beginnings, the big daddy of style manuals would emerge? For decades, the Chicago Manual of Style was the be-all and end-all, the master of the style universe. The book-publishing industry worshipped (and still does) at its pages.

Then usurpers, such as the MLA and APA bibliography stylebooks, appeared and diminished the CMS’s sway. Despite that, it is a style power to be reckoned with – especially if your professor tells you to use it.

Chicago style bibliographies comes in two flavors – humanities and scientific. They are very similar. To see examples of these citations, click below.

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