For citations—both on this website and in our house publication, the Journal of Vampire Studies—we use the Notes and Bibliography style found in The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), chap. 14.1 Our citation policy is not tied to the current edition, but to update according to the latest CMOS edition. That policy will soon be activated thanks to a recent development.
Today, I found out that the manual’s eighteenth edition will drop on September 19. That gives me little time to brush up on the citations used in submissions for our upcoming journal issue. I’m hoping the changes aren’t substantial, but I can already see differences like the prospect of omitting places of publication from book citations.2
Here’s hoping their example citations in the manual have correlating notes and bibliography reference examples like their website does. This has been a particular bugbear of mine.
Anyway, for those who’ve contributed to the journal issue (or might have something they’d like to submit), carry on with the current format. Editorial adjustments can be made as I familiarise myself with the latest not-yet-released edition. Not sure when that will happen as Amazon.com.au is currently selling it for $124.64 (a marked difference from US$57.99 it’s currently being sold for on Amazon.com).3
- I mainly use notes only on this website, though. ↩︎
- “Notes and Bibliography: Sample Citations,” Chicago Manual of Style, accessed September 12, 2024, https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html. ↩︎
- Australian residents cannot purchase from Amazon.com due to restrictions imposed by the company following tax regulations implemented by the Australian government. Catherine Shu, “Australians Will No Longer Be Able to Order from Amazon’s American Site,” TechCrunch, May 30, 2018, https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/30/australians-will-no-longer-be-able-to-order-from-amazons-american-site/. ↩︎
