Chicago Manual of Style

Question

Chicago Manual of Style

Anonymous

This applies to home and business.

Despite all the many many many adaptations of Microsoft Word, over the years, there is still no Chicago Manual of Style (aka CMOS) template. There is a template for writing a novel. Who came up with this?? Any writing submitted for potential publishing is meant to be submitted in the CMOS style. The template in Microsoft 365 is a faux template with no meaning.

Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.

0 comments

6 answers

Answer 1

I think it is safe to say MS has abandoned the Citations and Bibliography feature.

. * Word 365 provides APA 6 (2016), APA 7 (2019-) is current version

. * Word 365 provides MLA 7 (1977-2009), MLA 9 (2021-) current version

. * Word 365 provides Chicago 16 (2010), Chicago 17 (2017-) is current version.

. * Word 365 provides Turabian 5 (1987, Chicago 13), Turabian 9 (2018, Chicago 17**)** ) is current version.
(FYI: Turabian is a variation based on Chicago style guide.)

. * Word 365 provides IEEE 2006, V9.20.2021 is current standard:
http://journals.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/IEEE-Editorial-Style-Manual-for-Authors.pdf
.

Any school or teacher requiring students to use the bibliography feature in Word is an ID-10-T. They should

. * teach how to work around the current limitations of Word,

. * explicitly tell you to not waste your time trying to use the feature, do it manually

. * tell you to use an external tool, maybe even tell you which one

. * accept the out of date style formatting provided Word.
.

When it comes to using the Bibliography feature in Word the old joke comes to mind:

Patient: “Doctor, doctor. It hurts when I do this!”

Reply: “Then don’t do THAT!”

Conclusion: Don't use the feature, your other options are simple:

. * Do your bibliography manually

. * find and use an external citation manager

.

Please vote for and add comments to these feedbacks to MS

Browser Feedback portal

Please REMOVE obsolete Bibliography Citation feature
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/fd2ef35b-4fa1-ec11-a81c-002248504419
Personally, I think that if MS is not going to keep the styles up to date they should just bite the bullet and rip the feature out. Or rip styles out as new versions are released for each specific style.
.

Feedback to MS asking for updated style guide support

Add APA 7th Editionhttps://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/70cff3ae-e01c-ec11-b6e7-0022481f80e8
.

Update to APA 7^th^: https://aka.ms/AAfb3f2 .

Answer 2

Charles Kenyon 166.8K Volunteer Moderator

Look under the References Tab and pick Chicago.

The best templates are usually the ones that you make.

0 comments

Answer 3

Anonymous

Thanks for the update.

It is unfortunate that they don't do it all.

0 comments

Answer 4

Anonymous

I do. It doesn't do references/citations/bibliography, but does cover a ton of chicago style spelling, grammar, hyphenation/punctuation preferences. It doesn't cost much to subscribe to both services to get it either. ~$100 USD/year total.

0 comments

Answer 5

There is a product released last year that is a collaboration of the University of Chicago Press/Chicago Manual of Style and a proofreading software company, PerfectIt.

With this tool, you can check a Word document for Chicago Style rules, grammar/usage/etc.

For more info check out https://intelligentediting.com/

and/or

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/help-tools/perfectit.html

It's an excellent product.

Share via

Chicago Manual of Style

6 answers