The Chicago Manual of Style is published in hardcover and online.

The online edition

includes the searchable text of both the fifteenth and sixteenthits most recenteditions
with features such as tools for editors, a citation guide summary, and searchable access to
a Q&A, where University of Chicago Press editors answer readers' style questions. The
Chicago Manual of Style also discusses the parts of a book and the editing process. An
annual subscription is required for access to the online content of the Manual. (Access to
the Q&A, however, is free, as well as to various editing tools.)
The Chicago Manual of Style is used in some social science publications and most
historical journals. It remains the basis for the Style Guide of the American Anthropological
Association and the Style Sheet for the Organization of American Historians. Many small
publishers throughout the world adopt it as their style.
The Chicago Manual of Style includes chapters relevant to publishers of books and
journals. It is used widely by academic and some trade publishers, as well as editors and
authors who are required by those publishers to follow it. Kate L. Turabian's A Manual for
Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations is based on theManual.
Chicago style offers writers a choice of several different formats. It allows the mixing of
formats, provided that the result is clear and consistent. For instance, the fifteenth edition
of The Chicago Manual of Style permits the use of both in-text citation
systems and/or footnotes or endnotes, including use of "content notes"; it gives
information about in-text citation by page number (such as MLA style) or by year of
publication (like APA style); it even provides for variations in styles of footnotes and
endnotes, depending on whether the paper includes a full bibliography at the end. [2]
Author-date citations are usually placed just inside a mark of punctuation (Example Author,
2013). An exception is at the end of a block quotation, where the citation is placed outside
the punctuation.[3]

History[edit]
What now is known as The Chicago Manual of Style was first published in 1906 under the
title Manual of Style: Being a compilation of the typographical rules in force at the
University of Chicago Press, to which are appended specimens of type in use. From its first
203-page edition,[4] the CMOS evolved into a comprehensive reference style guide of
1,026 pages in its sixteenth edition.[1] It was one of the first editorial style guides
published in the United States, and it is largely responsible for research methodology
standardization, notably citation style.
The most significant revision to the manual was made for the twelfth edition, published in
1969. Its first printing of 20,000 copies sold out before it was printed. [5] In 1982, with the
publication of the thirteenth edition, it was officially retitled The Chicago Manual of
Style adopting the informal name already in widespread use.[5]
More recently, the publishers have released a new edition about every ten years. The
fifteenth edition was revised to reflect the emergence of computer technology and the
internet in publishing, offering guidance for citing electronic works. Other changes
included a chapter by Bryan A. Garner on American English grammar and use,[6]and a
revised treatment of mathematical copy.[7]
In August 2010, the sixteenth edition was published simultaneously in the hardcover and
online editions for the first time in the Manual's history. In a departure from the trademark
red-orange cover, the sixteenth edition featured a robin's-egg blue dust jacket (a nod to
older editions with blue jackets, such as the eleventh and twelfth). The sixteenth edition
features "music, foreign languages, and computer topics (such as Unicode characters

and URLs)".[1] It also offers expanded recommendations for 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. It also included a revised glossary, including a host of
terms associated with electronic and print publishing. The Chicago system of
documentation is streamlined to achieve greater consistency between the author-date and
notes-bibliography systems of citation, making both systems easier to use. In addition,
updated and expanded examples address the many questions that arise when
documenting online and digital sources, from the use ofDOIs to citing social networking
sites. Figures and tables are updated throughout the book, including a return to
the Manual's popular hyphenation table and new, selective listings of Unicode numbers for
special characters.
In 2013, an adapted Spanish version was published by the University of Deusto in Bilbao,
Spain.[8]

History of editions[edit]
First Edition, 1906
Second Edition, 1910
Third Edition, 1911
Fourth Edition, 1914
Fifth Edition, 1917
Sixth Edition, 1919
Seventh Edition, 1920
Eighth Edition, 1925
Ninth Edition, 1927
Tenth Edition, 1937
Eleventh Edition, 1949
Twelfth Edition, 1969
Thirteenth Edition, 1982
Fourteenth Edition, 1993
Fifteenth Edition, 2003
Sixteenth Edition, 2010

Recent printed editions[edit]

University of Chicago (2003). The Chicago Manual of Style (fifteenth ed.). Chicago: Univ.
of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-10403-6.
University of Chicago (2010). The Chicago Manual of Style (sixteenth ed.). Chicago: Univ.
of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-10420-1.