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Quotation marks

The following guidelines are taken from Chicago Manual of Style only. (CMS 16 | CMS 17) Skip to: Capitalization of …

Family Words

Skip to grand / great / aunts and uncles: great or grand? / step / in-law. CMS and AP agree …

Numbers

In general, Chicago likes to spell numbers out, and AP likes to use numerals. The following is for nontechnical material, …

Dictionaries

Chicago Manual of Style follows this dictionary: Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition (I abbreviate this as MW11 throughout this …