Manuscript Preparation, Copyediting, and Proofreading

Q. How does one go about preparing an index? Any web page I can go to?

A. I typed “preparing an index Chicago” (without the quotation marks) into Google and found many sites that offer guidelines. Here are a couple, from University of Nebraska Press and Penn State University Press.

And of course chapter 16 in CMOS tells you all you need to know and more.

[This answer relies on the 17th edition of CMOS (2017) unless otherwise noted.]