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Questions about usage of the Chicago Manual of Style

The Chicago Manual of Style (often shortened to CMOS, CMS, or "Chicago") is a style guide for American English published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Is it overkill to follow style-guides for technical writing?

I currently work for an engineering company as an electrical engineer. A good chunk of my time is spent writing testing reports or instruction documents. Currently my company doesn't have any sort of guidelines specifying how to format documents,…
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Use of punctuation within quotes with single words or letters

Consider the following sentence: Huego becomes fuego by discarding its "h" in favor of "f". Do not omit the trailing "s", which is key to the overall meaning here. Nueve comes from the Latin word "nueve", which also gives us the English word,…
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When quoting, must I also copy hyphens used to divide words that continue on the next line?

I want to quote a text in which re of the word relationships is on one line while lationships is on the next, and a hyphen follows re (re-) to indicate that the word continues on the next line. When I want to quote the text, can I simply write down…
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How to document and cite website downtime properly?

I couldn't find anything on this one, so maybe someone has a good idea on what would be considered good practice in a scholarly context. Background For a semester project, I have to observe an online newspaper and summarize their weekly topics. Each…
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A comprehensive foreign-language source citation question

My "destination" specifies Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition, notes and bibliography style. However, I'm interested in the reasoning or philosophy behind the formatting decisions, so if another style guide has something specific to say about the…
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Chicago-style "additional resources" at end of chapter

I'm writing a physics Ph.D. thesis in Chicago style and I'd like to include an "additional resources" section at the end of each chapter. This section would include articles, websites, etc. which I may not necessarily have directly used in a section…
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Location of commas after a series of exclamations?

In keeping with Chicago Manual of Style, where is it appropriate to place commas in a situation like the following sentence?: The Romans seemed happy with the morning’s entertainment, and to shouts of “Long live Nero!”, “Glory be to Caesar!”, and…
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Citation short form for authors' names: different authors, different books, same last name. First name in endnote?

A colleague is assembling a book for publication, and the publisher instructions state that the book should use short form end-notes, and a full bibliography for each chapter. The book concerns China, so many of the sources have authors who are…
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Citing a footnote

I have a primary source whose editor often has editorial comments in his footnotes. There are occasions when I would like to quote these remarks, but I cannot understand how to correctly do this from my Chicago Manual. How do I do this? Also, my…
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Use of the Chicago Manual of Style by UK-English writers

I am Australian and have just finished writing a novel. The publisher I will be using is in the USA and uses the Chicago Manual of Style. Because I use UK English, I would prefer to leave my manuscript in the UK style, especially with regard to…
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Chicago- Paraphrasing a whole page from Author into 1 paragraph- what is the citation?

In a technical paper I am writing, I am taking a whole page of information and condensing it into a paragraph. I am using a mix of the authors words and my own. My question is can I cite the end of the paragraph and just state in the footnote that…
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I want to include an epigraph in my paper. Should I preserve the original in-text citations?

The author of the passage that I want to use as an epigraph keeps making references to sections of Herodotus’ histories, which, whilst I respect it, doesn't look good in an epigraph. Since I already indicate where I got the quote from, am I allowed…
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How to cite the place of a conference in Chicago manual of style?

I am confused about what should I add in the place of conference in the Chicago manual of style? Place of the publisher or the location of the conference? I just want to cite the conference paper. For a conference paper in the ACM website, for…
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Do former names of companies go in quotation marks or in italics?

I understand that current companies, like Google, do not go in italics or quotes. However, I am editing an article with a sentence that says, "Founded in 1880 as 'The Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company,'" The name above is no longer the name…
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How to cite the source when paraphrasing/summarizing in Chicago-Turabian style

I might be asking the same question that is found here. However, it has no marked answer, and the one answer it has only has one upvote. It's crucial that I do this right, so I thought I should still ask this question just in case. I'm wondering how…
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