Editing The Chicago Manual of Style (section)

==Availability and uses==
''The Chicago Manual of Style'' is published in hardcover and online. The online edition includes the searchable text of the 16th through 18th—its most recent—editions 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 are various editing tools).{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

Many publishers throughout the world adopt "Chicago" as their style. It is used in some social science publications, most North American historical journals,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pollak |first=Oliver B. |title=The Decline and Fall of Bottom Notes, op. cit., loc. cit., and a Century of the Chicago Manual of Style |journal=Journal of Scholarly Publishing |volume=38 |date=June 11, 2007 |pages=20–21 |doi=10.3138/jsp.38.1.14}}</ref> and remains the basis for the ''Style Guide of the [[American Anthropological Association]]'', the ''Style Sheet'' for the [[Organization of American Historians]], and corporate style guides, including the ''Apple Style Guide''.<ref>{{cite web |title=About the guide |url= https://help.apple.com/applestyleguide/#/apsg1eef9171 |website=Apple Style Guide |publisher=Apple Inc. |access-date=July 13, 2019}}</ref>

''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|Kate L. Turabian's]] ''[[A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations]]'' also reflects Chicago style.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

''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 15th edition of ''The Chicago Manual of Style'' permits the use of both in-text [[Citation#Systems|citation systems]] and/or [[Note (typography)|footnotes or endnotes]], including use of "content notes"; it gives information about in-text citation by page number (such as [[The MLA Style Manual|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.<ref name="Yale" />