This week, the Chicago Manual of Style announced its new edition. The 17th edition will lower-cased internet, drop the hyphen from email, add guidelines for retracing a journal article and advise against the use of “ibid.” For those writers and editors working on 20-year-long research papers, this may create a bit of a problem when the 17th edition hits the shelves this September.
Carol Saller, editor of the Chicago Manual of Style Online’s Q&A, sat down with Online News Association USFSP’s Tim Fanning and Michael Moore Jr. to give a recap of her ACES session titled “What’s New at the Chicago Manual of Style.” Saller also talked about some “hate mail” she’s received in response to some of these changes.