The Chicago Manual of Style:
Commonly Used Sections
As the introduction explains, this guide is intended as a complement to more comprehensive style guides. One of the most important of these is The Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed., 2003), which is the basis for the style policies of all of the Computer Society's publications. This list identifies CMS sections that Computer Society editors frequently use.
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Topic
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Location
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Pages
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Capitalization: after a colon
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Section 6.64
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257
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Capitalization: general
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Section 8
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311
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Compound words
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Sections 7.82-7.90
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299-308
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Dash marks (hyphen, en dash, em dash)
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Sections 6.80-6.96
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260-265
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Letters used as words
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Sections 7.62-7.81
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294-299
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Mathematics
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Chapter 14
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523-556
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Names: spacecraft, aircraft, and so on
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Section 8.124-8.125
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355-356
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Periods: use of with quotation marks
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Section 6.8
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242
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Possessive: use of after a proper noun
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Sections 7.18-7.21
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282-283
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Punctuation: placement of commas
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Sections 6.18-6.56
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244-255
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Titles of works (for example, songs and poems)
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Sections 8.164-8.210
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366-378
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