2: Publishing
The works listed here offer a starting point for writers, editors, and others involved in publishing who would like more information about topics covered in this manual. The list includes all the works cited in the text as further resources along with other useful references. Although some make recommendations that diverge from those of this manual, they reflect the specific demands of different disciplines and the evolving traditions of writing, editing, and publishing. As with all reference sources, readers should carefully evaluate their suitability for a given purpose.
2.1: Manuscript Editing and Proofreading
ACES: The Society for Editing (US). https://aceseditors.org/.
Anderson, Laura. McGraw-Hill’s Proofreading Handbook. 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Borel, Brooke. The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking. 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Bűky, Erika, Marilyn Schwartz, and Amy Einsohn. The Copyeditor’s Workbook: Exercises and Tips for Honing Your Editorial Judgment. University of California Press, 2019.
Butcher, Judith, Caroline Drake, and Maureen Leach. Butcher’s Copy-Editing: The Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Copy-Editors, and Proofreaders. 4th ed. Cambridge University Press, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511482106.
CIEP: Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (UK). https://www.ciep.uk/.
Editors of Color Database. A project of Conscious Style Guide. https://editorsofcolor.com/.
EFA: Editorial Freelancers Association (US). https://www.the-efa.org/.
Einsohn, Amy, and Marilyn Schwartz. The Copyeditor’s Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications. 4th ed. University of California Press, 2019.
Judd, Karen. Copyediting: A Practical Guide. 3rd ed. Crisp Learning, 2001.
Norris, Mary. Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen. W. W. Norton, 2015.
Norton, Scott. Developmental Editing: A Handbook for Freelancers, Authors, and Publishers. 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Saller, Carol Fisher. The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself). 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Schneider, Amy J. The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction. University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Stainton, Elsie Myers. The Fine Art of Copyediting. 2nd ed. Columbia University Press, 2002.
University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff. But Can I Start a Sentence with “But”? Advice from the Chicago Style Q&A. With a foreword by Carol Fisher Saller. University of Chicago Press, 2016.
2.2: Illustrations
Briscoe, Mary Helen. Preparing Scientific Illustrations: A Guide to Better Posters, Presentations, and Publications. 2nd ed. Springer-Verlag, 1996. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3986-4.
Frankel, Felice C. The Visual Elements—Design: A Handbook for Communicating Science and Engineering. University of Chicago Press, 2024.
Frankel, Felice C. The Visual Elements—Photography: A Handbook for Communicating Science and Engineering. University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Healy, Kieran. Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction. Princeton University Press, 2019.
Monmonier, Mark. Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Ross, Ted. The Art of Music Engraving and Processing: A Complete Manual, Reference, and Text Book on Preparing Music for Reproduction and Print. Hansen Books, 1970.
Swan, Ann. Botanical Portraits with Colored Pencils. Barron’s Educational Series, 2010.
Tufte, Edward R. Envisioning Information. Graphics Press, 1990.
Tufte, Edward R. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. 2nd ed. Graphics Press, 2001.
Tufte, Edward R. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Graphics Press, 1997.
Zweifel, Frances W. A Handbook of Biological Illustration. 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
2.3: Rights and Permissions
Aufderheide, Patricia, and Peter Jaszi. Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright. 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Bielstein, Susan M. Permissions, a Survival Guide: Blunt Talk About Art as Intellectual Property. University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Crews, Kenneth D. Copyright and Your Dissertation or Thesis: Ownership, Fair Use, and Your Rights and Responsibilities. ProQuest, 2013. https://pq-static-content.proquest.com/collateral/media2/documents/copyright_dissthesis_ownership.pdf.
Fischer, Mark A., E. Gabriel Perle, and John Taylor Williams. Perle, Williams & Fischer on Publishing Law. 4th ed. Wolters Kluwer, 2013. Annual loose-leaf updates.
Fishman, Stephen. The Copyright Handbook: What Every Writer Needs to Know. 14th ed. Nolo, 2021.
Goldstein, Paul. Goldstein on Copyright. 3rd ed. Wolters Kluwer, 2005. Loose-leaf updates.
Goldstein, Paul, and P. Bernt Hugenholtz. International Copyright: Principles, Law, and Practice. 4th ed. Oxford, 2019.
Kaufman, Roy S. Publishing Forms and Contracts. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Nimmer, Melville, and Paul Edward Gellner, eds. International Copyright Law and Practice. LexisNexis Matthew Bender, 2004. Loose-leaf updates.
Nimmer, Melville, Paul Marcus, David A. Myers, and David Nimmer. Cases and Materials on Copyright and Other Aspects of Entertainment Litigation, Including Unfair Competition, Defamation, Privacy. 8th ed. LexisNexis, 2012.
Nimmer, Melville, and David Nimmer. Nimmer on Copyright. Rev. ed. 11 vols. LexisNexis Matthew Bender, 2005. Loose-leaf updates.
Patry, William F. The Fair Use Privilege in Copyright Law. 2nd ed. Bureau of National Affairs, 1995.
Patry, William F. Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Patry, William F. Patry on Copyright. 8 vols. Thomson/West, 2007–. Loose-leaf updates.
Strong, William S. The Copyright Book: A Practical Guide. 6th ed. MIT Press, 2014.
Suber, Peter. Open Access. MIT Press, 2012. https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_(the_book).
2.4: Mathematics
Concise Dictionary of Mathematics. Edited by Richard Earl and James Nicholson. 6th ed. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Gowers, Timothy, ed. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics. Princeton University Press, 2008.
Henderson, Lori. “Mathematics.” Section 5.4.2 in ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication. ACS Publications, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsguide.50402.
Higham, Nicholas J. Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences. 3rd ed. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2019.
Knuth, Donald E. The TeXbook. Illustrations by Duane Bibby. Addison-Wesley, 1986.
Lamport, Leslie. LaTeX: A Document Preparation System; User’s Guide and Reference Manual. 2nd ed. Addison-Wesley, 1999.
The LaTeX Project. Includes LaTeX software and documentation. https://www.latex-project.org/.
Letourneau, Mary, and Jennifer Wright Sharp. AMS Style Guide: Journals. American Mathematical Society, 2017. https://www.ams.org/publications/authors/AMS-StyleGuide-online.pdf.
Mittelbach, Frank, and Michel Goossens. The LaTeX Companion. 2nd ed. Addison-Wesley, 2004.
Oetiker, Tobias, Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna, and Elisabeth Schlegl. The Not So Short Guide to LaTeX 2ε. Version 6.4, 2021. https://mirrors.rit.edu/CTAN/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf.
Paulos, John Allen. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences. Hill and Wang, 2001.
SI Brochure: The International System of Units (SI). 9th ed. Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, 2019. https://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure.
Swanson, Ellen. Mathematics into Type. Updated edition by Arlene O’Sean and Antoinette Schleyer. American Mathematical Society, 1999. https://www.ams.org/arc/styleguide/mit-2.pdf.
Thompson, Ambler, and Barry N. Taylor. Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI). National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2008. https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/pdf/sp811.pdf.
2.5: Indexing
Browne, Glenda, and Jon Jermey. The Indexing Companion. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Cleveland, Donald B., and Ana D. Cleveland. Introduction to Indexing and Abstracting. 4th ed. Libraries Unlimited, 2013.
Fetters, Linda K. Handbook of Indexing Techniques: A Guide for Beginning Indexers. 5th ed. Information Today, 2013.
Mulvany, Nancy. Indexing Books. 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Stauber, Do Mi. Facing the Text: Content and Structure in Book Indexing. Cedar Row Press, 2004.
Wellisch, Hans H. Indexing from A to Z. 2nd ed. H. W. Wilson, 1995.
2.6: Design
Berne, Debbie. The Design of Books: An Explainer for Authors, Editors, Agents, and Other Curious Readers. University of Chicago Press, 2024.
Borsuk, Amaranth. The Book. MIT Press, 2018.
Bringhurst, Robert. The Elements of Typographic Style. 4th ed. Hartley and Marks, 2013.
Craig, James, and Irene Korol Scala. Designing with Type: The Essential Guide to Typography. 5th ed. Watson-Guptill, 2006.
Dowding, Geoffrey. Finer Points in the Spacing and Arrangement of Type. Rev. ed. Hartley and Marks, 1995.
Duckett, Jon. HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites. Wiley, 2011.
Felici, James. The Complete Manual of Typography: A Guide to Setting Perfect Type. 2nd ed. Adobe Press, 2011.
Gill, Eric. An Essay on Typography. 1931; repr., Penguin, 2013.
Hendel, Richard. Aspects of Contemporary Book Design. University of Iowa Press, 2013.
Hendel, Richard. On Book Design. Yale University Press, 1998.
Houston, Keith. Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks. W. W. Norton, 2013.
Johnston, Edward. Writing and Illuminating and Lettering. 1946; repr., Dover, 1995.
Lupton, Ellen. Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students. 3rd ed. Princeton Architectural Press, 2024.
Tschichold, Jan. The New Typography. New ed. Translated by Ruari McLean. With a foreword by Richard Hendel and an introduction by Robin Kinross. University of California Press, 2006.
2.7: Accessibility
“Alternative Text.” WebAIM. https://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/.
DAISY Consortium. Accessible Publishing Knowledge Base. https://kb.daisy.org/publishing/docs/.
DAISY Consortium. Inclusive Publishing. https://inclusivepublishing.org/.
EPUB Accessibility 1.1. Edited by Matt Garrish, George Kerscher, Charles LaPierre, Gregorio Pellegrino, and Avneesh Singh. W3C Recommendation, May 25, 2023. https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-a11y-11/.
Gilbert, Regine M. Inclusive Design for a Digital World: Designing with Accessibility in Mind. Apress, 2019.
Orme, Richard, host. “Describing Images in Publications—Guidance, Best Practices and the Promise of Technology.” Webinar, DAISY Consortium, June 17, 2020. https://daisy.org/news-events/articles/describing-images-in-publications-w/.
Rosen, Stephanie. Describing Visual Resources Toolkit: Describing Visual Resources for Accessibility in Arts & Humanities Publications. https://describingvisualresources.org/.
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. World Wide Web Consortium. https://www.w3.org/WAI/.
2.8: Production
Berger, Sidney E. Rare Books and Special Collections. American Library Association, 2014.
The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing. Edited by William E. Kasdorf. Columbia University Press, 2003.
Eckersley, Richard, Richard Angstadt, Charles M. Ellertson, Richard Hendel, Naomi B. Pascal, and Anita Walker Scott. Glossary of Typesetting Terms. University of Chicago Press, 1994.
EPUB 3 Overview. Edited by Matt Garrish and Ivan Herman. W3C Group Note. Continually updated. https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-overview-33/.
Friedl, Jeffrey E. F. Mastering Regular Expressions. 3rd ed. O’Reilly, 2006.
Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall. Encyclopedia of the Book. 2nd ed. Oak Knoll Press, 2001.
Johnson, Arthur W. The Thames and Hudson Manual of Bookbinding. Thames and Hudson, 1981.
Lee, Marshall. Bookmaking: Editing, Design, Production. 3rd ed. Norton, 2004.
National Information Standards Organization. Journal Article Versions (JAV): Recommendations of the NISO/ALPSP JAV Technical Working Group. Proposed standard NISO RP-8. In partnership with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers. April 2008. https://doi.org/10.3789/niso-rp-8-2008.
Pocket Pal: A Graphic Arts Production Handbook. 21st ed. International Paper, 2020.
Register, Renée, and Thad McIlroy. The Metadata Handbook: A Book Publisher’s Guide to Creating and Distributing Metadata for Print and Ebooks. 2nd ed. DataCurate, 2015.
Rogondino, Michael, and Pat Rogondino. Process Color Manual: 24,000 CMYK Combinations for Design, Prepress, and Printing. Chronicle Books, 2000.
The Unicode Standard. Unicode Consortium. Continually updated. https://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/.
World Wide Web Consortium. Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1. 2nd ed. Edited by Tim Bray, Jean Paoli, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Eve Maler, François Yergeau, and John Cowan. W3C Recommendation, August 16, 2006. https://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/.
XML.com. Textuality Services. https://www.xml.com/. See also World Wide Web Consortium, Extensible Markup Language.
2.9: The Publishing Industry
Brenner, Erin. The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors: How to Take Care of Your Business, Your Clients, and Yourself from Start-Up to Sustainability. University of Chicago Press, 2024.
Eckstut, Arielle, and David Henry Sterry. The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published. Workman Publishing, 2015.
Friedman, Jane. The Business of Being a Writer. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Germano, William. Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious About Serious Books. 3rd ed. University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Ginna, Peter, ed. What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing. University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Greco, Albert N. The Book Publishing Industry. 3rd ed. Routledge, 2013.
ILMP (International Literary Market Place). Information Today. Published annually. Also available at https://books.infotoday.com/directories/ilmp.shtml.
Journal of Electronic Publishing. Published quarterly by Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library. https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/.
Journal of Scholarly Publishing. Published quarterly by the University of Toronto Press. https://www.utpjournals.press/loi/jsp.
Kurowski, Travis, Wayne Miller, and Kevin Prufer, eds. Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century. Milkweed Editions, 2016.
Levine, Mark. The Fine Print of Self-Publishing: A Primer on Contracts, Printing Costs, Royalties, Distribution, Ebooks, and Marketing. 6th ed. North Loop Books, 2016.
LMP (Literary Market Place). Information Today. Published annually. Also available at https://books.infotoday.com/directories/lmp.shtml.
Luey, Beth. Handbook for Academic Authors. 6th ed. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Portwood-Stacer, Laura. The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors. Princeton University Press, 2021.
Rabiner, Susan, and Alfred Fortunato. Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction—and Get It Published. W. W. Norton, 2002.
Striphas, Ted. The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control. Columbia University Press, 2009.
Suzanne, Claudia. This Business of Books: A Complete Overview of the Industry from Concept Through Sales. 5th ed. Published by the author, 2016.
Thompson, John B. Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing. Polity, 2021.
Thompson, John B. Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century. 2nd ed. Plume, 2012.