Hi. Is there an update for CMOS in the works? The 18th edition was recently released. I know specific information is needed for a style request, but I am checking if this endeavor is needed. If I was savvy in editing a citation style, I would attempt to do so independently. Some of the changes make citation easier.

Notes update:

A place of publication is no longer required for book citations (see CMOS 14.30).

1. Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown (Pantheon Books, 2020), 45.
2. Amy J. Binder and Jeffrey L. Kidder, The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today (University of Chicago Press, 2022), 117–18.
Shortened notes

3. Yu, Interior Chinatown, 48.
4. Binder and Kidder, Channels of Student Activism, 125.
Bibliography entries (in alphabetical order)

Binder, Amy J., and Jeffrey L. Kidder. The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today. University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Yu, Charles. Interior Chinatown. Pantheon Books, 2020.

Another update:

CHAPTER OR OTHER PART OF AN EDITED BOOK
The page range for a chapter in a book is no longer required in bibliography entries (see CMOS 14.8). In a note, cite specific pages as applicable.

Note

1. Kathleen Doyle, “The Queen Mary Psalter,” in The Book by Design: The Remarkable Story of the World’s Greatest Invention, ed. P. J. M. Marks and Stephen Parkin (University of Chicago Press, 2023), 64.
Shortened note

2. Doyle, “Queen Mary Psalter,” 65.
Bibliography entry

Doyle, Kathleen. “The Queen Mary Psalter.” In The Book by Design: The Remarkable Story of the World’s Greatest Invention, edited by P. J. M. Marks and Stephen Parkin. University of Chicago Press, 2023.
In some cases, you may want to cite the collection as a whole instead.

Note

1. P. J. M. Marks and Stephen Parkin, eds., The Book by Design: The Remarkable Story of the World’s Greatest Invention (University of Chicago Press, 2023).
Shortened note

2. Marks and Parkin, Book by Design.
Bibliography entry

Marks, P. J. M., and Stephen Parkin, eds. The Book by Design: The Remarkable Story of the World’s Greatest Invention. University of Chicago Press, 2023.
For more details and examples, see CMOS 14.8–14.

BOOK CONSULTED IN AN ELECTRONIC FORMAT
To cite a book consulted online, include either a URL or the name of the database. For downloadable ebook formats, name the format; if no fixed page numbers are available, cite a section title or a chapter or other number in the note (or simply omit). For citing a place rather than a publisher for books published before 1900 (as in the Moby-Dick example below), see CMOS 14.31.

Notes

1. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (Random House, 2008), chap. 6, Kindle.
2. Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, eds., The Founders’ Constitution (University of Chicago Press, 1987), chap. 10, doc. 19, https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.
3. Brooke Borel, The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking, 2nd ed. (University of Chicago Press, 2023), 92, EBSCOhost.
4. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (New York, 1851), 627, https://melville.electroniclibrary.org/moby-dick-side-by-side.
Shortened notes

5. Roy, God of Small Things, chap. 7.
6. Kurland and Lerner, Founders’ Constitution, chap. 4, doc. 29.
7. Borel, Fact-Checking, 104–5.
8. Melville, Moby-Dick, 722–23.
Bibliography entries (in alphabetical order)

Borel, Brooke. The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking. 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press, 2023. EBSCOhost.
Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. The Founders’ Constitution. University of Chicago Press, 1987. https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York, 1851. https://melville.electroniclibrary.org/moby-dick-side-by-side.
Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 2008. Kindle.
For more details and examples, see CMOS 14.58–62.



Thanks in advance for any help.


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