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Q. I am converting a document to Chicago style for publication, and the manual shows one way of presenting references (for example, quotes around the article name and dates at the end of the citation), and the journal (Gender & Society) shows another in their published articles (more like APA). The journal states it is Chicago style, but there seem to be different types of Chicago style.
A. Yes, there are two main Chicago styles, (1) author-date, which is used more often in the social sciences and in journals, and (2) notes-bibliography, which is used more often in the humanities and in books. (That’s just generally speaking—a publication may use whichever its editors like.) You can see the differences in our free Quick Guide. Please note, though, that the author-date style changed in the 16th edition of CMOS. A look at the Gender & Society website shows that it follows the 15th edition, “style B,” by which its editors seem to mean you should follow the examples labeled B for “bibliography.” Subscribers can access the content of both editions at the CMOS site.