Grimer Girl here. I'm in Yon Fogarty and this week I have a news story about updates

to the AP style book and the Chicago Manual of Style that were announced last week at the

American Copy Editor Society meeting. This was a big style update year at the ACES meeting.

The Associated Press usually announced the style book changes at the meeting every year.

But this year the Chicago Manual of Style also announced updates, which only happens every

once in a while. The last time Chicago made changes, for example, was when it released

the 16th edition all the way back in 2010. As we've talked about before, there are many

style books and many different reasons to use them, but people tend to use the Chicago

Manual of Style when they're writing books or doing some kind of academic writing, and

people tend to use the AP style book when they're writing for newspapers or websites,

although of course there are other reasons to use both. Carol Fisher-Solar, the editor

of the Chicago Manual of Style's online Q&A and the author of the subversive Copy Editor,

gave a presentation at the ACES conference on the major updates you'll find in the 17th

edition of Chicago, which will come out in September. And she didn't waste any time getting

to the good stuff, announcing that the word internet will now be lower case in Chicago's

style, and that the word email will lose the hyphen. Both these changes were popular in

the room and on the internet, where most people were glad to have Chicago come into line with

changes other style books they've been making over the last few years. Another significant

change is that the 17th edition will recommend using shortened citations instead of using

IBID, IBODE, when you have multiple references in a row from the same source. IBODE is a Latin

abbreviation that means in the same place, and in the past you used it to keep from having to

write out identical or similar citation information over and over again. For example, if reference

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