Alternative Title: The Chicago Manual of Style | CMOS
Allowable Uses:
Access is available on and off campus to current McMaster University students, faculty and staff.
Notes:
A new 18th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) was released in September 2024. Here's What's New in CMOS 18.
The 17th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) was released in September 2017.
Description:
Provides guidance on citing sources, reference formats, grammar and usage, and manuscript production. Both the 18th (2024) and 17th (2017) editions are available online.
Note that there are two formats in Chicago style: notes with bibliography, used for the humanities and some social sciences, and parenthetical citations with reference list, used predominantly by the physical, natural, and social sciences.
