The Chicago Manual of Style Online: Chapter 2 Contents

2 : Manuscript Preparation and Manuscript Editing

Introduction

The Author’s Responsibilities

2.3 Elements to be furnished

Physical Form and Number of Copies Required

Keyboarding: General Instructions

2.10 Some admonitions
2.11 Software
2.12 Line spacing and word spacing
2.13 Justification and margins
2.14 Paragraph indention, tabs, and hard returns
2.15 Hyphenation
2.16 Dashes
2.17 Italics, underlining, and boldface
2.18 Special characters

Naming the Electronic Files and Numbering Pages

Chapter Titles and Subheads

Extracts

Documentation and Other Scholarly Apparatus

2.27 Notes
2.28 Glossaries and lists of abbreviations
2.29 Bibliographies and reference lists

Tables and Illustrations

2.30 Text references and callouts
2.31 Table numbering and callouts
2.32 Table notes
2.33 Illustration callouts and captions
2.34 Electronically prepared illustrations
2.35 Photographs, paintings, and the like

Cross-Checking

Multiauthor Books and Journals

Preparing a Manuscript from Printed Material

2.41 Retyped copy
2.42 Printed copy
2.43 Notes
2.44 Illustrations
2.45 Source notes
2.46 Permissible changes to published material

The Manuscript Editor’s Responsibilities

Principles of Manuscript Editing

2.47 Overview and terminology
2.48 Manuscript editing as opposed to developmental editing
2.49 Estimating time
2.50 Stages of editing
2.51 Mechanical editing
2.52 Style
2.53 Reference works
2.54 Style sheet
2.55 Substantive editing
2.56 Discretion in substantive editing
2.57 Editing part titles and chapter or article titles
2.58 Editing subheads
2.59 Cross-references
2.60 Quotations and previously published material
2.61 Editing notes
2.62 Editing note citations
2.63 Flexibility in citation style
2.64 Editing bibliographies and reference lists
2.65 Editing tables
2.66 Checking illustrations and their placement and editing captions
2.67 Preparing front matter for a printed book
2.68 Editing indexes

Communicating with the Author

2.69 Early contact
2.70 When to query
2.71 What to query
2.72 How to mark queries
2.73 The cover letter
2.74 Sending the edited manuscript to the author
2.75 Checking the author’s final changes

Putting a Manuscript into Production

2.76 Type specifications and coding
2.77 Type specifications and hand markup
2.78 Ensuring correct pagination
2.79 Running heads
2.80 Information for the typesetter

Editing Online: Some Mechanics

2.81 Backup and conversion
2.82 Cleanup
2.83 Redlining, or tracking changes
2.84 Queries to the author
2.85 Retaining the edited files
2.86 The author’s review
2.87 What is sent to the typesetter
2.88 Generically marking the typographic elements
2.89 Coding
2.90 Assigning styles
2.91 Using formal markup languages

Editing on Paper: Some Mechanics