Editing Common Era (section)

== Conventions in style guides ==
The abbreviation BCE, just as with BC, always follows the year number. Unlike AD, which still often precedes the year number, CE always follows the year number (if context requires that it be written at all).<ref>{{cite book | title = Chicago Manual of Style | edition = 17th | isbn = 978-0-226-28705-8 | date = 2017 | publisher = University of Chicago Press | at = ¶ 9.34  }}</ref> Thus, the current year is written as {{CURRENTYEAR}} in both notations (or, if further clarity is needed, as {{CURRENTYEAR}} CE, or as AD {{CURRENTYEAR}}), and the year that [[Socrates]] died is represented as 399 BCE (the same year that is represented by 399 BC in the BC/AD notation). The abbreviations are sometimes written with small capital letters, or with [[Full stop|periods]] (e.g., "<span style="font-size:87%;">B.C.E.</span>" or "C.E.").<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/about15_rules.html |title=Major Rule Changes in The Chicago Manual of Style, Fifteenth Edition |year=2003 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |quote=Certain abbreviations traditionally set in small caps are now in full caps (AD, BCE, and the like), with small caps an option. |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070909071543/http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/about15_rules.html|archive-date=9 September 2007|access-date=26 May 2015}}</ref> The US-based [[Society of Biblical Literature]] style guide for academic texts on religion prefers BCE/CE to BC/AD.<ref>''SBL Handbook of Style'' [[Society of Biblical Literature]] 1999 "8.1.2 ERAS – The preferred style is B.C.E. and C.E. (with periods). If you use A.D. and B.C., remember that A.D. precedes the date and B.C. follows it. (For the use of these abbreviations in titles, see §&nbsp;7.1.3.2.)"</ref>