But Can I Start a Sentence with "But"?
Advice from the Chicago Style Q&A
- Contents
- Review Quotes

Foreword, by Carol Fisher Saller
1 “It’s not so much an issue of correctness as of ickiness”
Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms
Compounds
Numbers
Plurals
Possessives and Attributives
Words and Letters
2 “‘President of the Mess Hall’ is going to look pretty silly”
Proper Nouns
Titles of Works
3 “Three people have three strong opinions about commas . . .”
Commas
Hyphens
Vertical Lists and Bullets
Other Dots, Dashes, and Squiggles
4 “Can fewest mean zero?”
Use or Abuse?
Restriction
Gender Benders
Prepositions
Pronouns
Grammatical or Not?
5 “If you give birth to a source and he’s still living under your roof . . .”
How Do You Cite . . . ?
Notes
Bibliographies
What if . . . ?
Quotations and Dialogue
6 “Holy metaphysics—we aren’t that fancy”
Authors, Titles, and Metadata
Formatting
Illustrations
Permissions, Credits, and Practical Issues
Indexing
Using a Style Manual
7 “Aaagh!” to “argh!” to “aahhh!”
Alphabetizing
In the Weeds of Editing
Special Characters
URLs
You Could Look It Up
Things That Freak Us Out
Index
Library Science and Publishing: Publishing
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