Style Guide

The Chicago Manual of Style is an indispensable asset for writers as well as our press’s default style guide. There you will find almost everything you’ll need to construct a manuscript that conforms to the standards of academic publishing. From usage and syntax to workflow and copyright, almost every topic an author might find useful is covered within its pages. The online version of the manual is excellent, and access to it is often free through university libraries. (Consult your research librarian for more details.) Access to a copy or to the website is compulsory for new authors who are working with our copyeditors to finalize a manuscript.

In several cases, the press deviates from the guidance in the most recent edition of The Chicago Manual. 

• We prefer to capitalize Black in a racial, ethnic, or cultural sense, conveying an essential and shared sense of history, identity, and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa. The lowercase black is a color, not a person. We will continue to lowercase the term white in racial, ethnic, and cultural senses.