Task Force to Investigate Changes Affecting RDA in the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition

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Review the impact of changes in the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed., on RDA instructions and examples and propose appropriate revisions to RDA. The text of RDA is expected to conform to the Manual, and changes to the RDA Editor’s Guide may be needed. Further, data recorded following RDA instructions is expected to conform to the Manual in details not specifically covered by RDA instructions. In particular, the task force should review the provisions on capitalization in the Manual, which might require revisions to Appendix A of RDA and relevant examples.

The task force should submit an interim report at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference and a final report at least a month prior to the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting.

Links

Significant Rule Changes in the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition

RDA Editor's Guide

Google Doc spreadsheet of changes


Editor's Guide changes (John)

Current text:
section 1:
15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.

Changed text:
16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.



Current text:
section 3.1

8.167 and 8.170

Changed text:
8.157-8.159


Current text:
section 3.2

8.167 and 8.170

Changed text:
8.157-8.159


Current text:
section 3.2

Statement Naming More than One Person, Etc.

Changed text:
Statement Naming More than One Person, etc.

Rationale (cite CMOS):
Chicago Style Q&A (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/CMS_FAQ/Capitalization/Capitalization_questions01.html)

Q. If etc. falls at the end of a title of a work, should it be capitalized or left lowercased? The argument against capitalization is that the et part of the abbreviation is a conjunction and the c part represents the final word (cetera). No one here argues for etC., of course, but my argument is that once et cetera is abbreviated to etc. the two words become one, so that etc. is therefore the last word, not the last two words, in the headline or title, and that it should be capitalized as Etc.

A. I like your reasoning, especially if the word is important to the title: “Murder Etc.” On the other hand, by reversing your logic you might get away with lowercasing when etc. is an insignificant, tacked-on ending (pace CMOS 8.167): “Schneeweisschean Applications of Jungian Typologies: Dopey, Happy, Bashful, Grumpy, etc.”

JH: This seems to assume that etc. would not be capitalized in the middle of a title. The question comes up in relation to the rule for capitalizing the last word of a title. Note that "etc." is not capitalized in the example before this one, where it falls in the middle of the section title (Date, Name, Number, etc., ...). Also, that example is not a section title in the published text of RDA 2.3.1.4, but a paragraph header with sentence style capitalization, but this does not detract from its value as an example.


Current text:
section 4.2

coordinate phases

Changed text:
coordinate phrases

Rationale: typo


Current text:
section 8

chapter 17

Changed text:
chapter 14


Other references to CMOS chapters seem to be correct.

Punctuation changes (Chamya)

Current text:
Changed text:
Rationale (cite CMOS):

Capitalization changes (Dominique)

1.1.3

Current text: Web

Changed text: web


Rationale (cite CMOS): 7.76

Also found in instructions: 2.3.6.3, 2.13.1.3, 6.27.1.5, Glossary: single unit, (but not World Wide Web in 27.1.1.3)

Also in “Web site” (Web site must be changed to website, see below): 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 2.1.2.4, 2.1.3.4, 2.3.1.6, 2.13.1.3, 11.13.1.8, 18.1.3, 19.2.1.3, 19.3.1.3, 20.2.1.3, 21.3.1.3, 27.1.1.3, J.4.2, Glossary: integrating resource, resource


1.1.2

Current text: Web site

Changed text: website


Rationale (cite CMOS):

CMOS16 Online Q&A: Internet, Web, and Other Post-Watergate Concerns

Q. Which is currently accepted: Web site, web site, website, or Website?

A. We prefer “website.”


Also in instructions: 1.1.3, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 2.1.2.4, 2.1.3.4, 2.3.1.6, 2.13.1.3, 7.29.2.3.2, 11.13.1.8, 18.1.3, 19.2.1.3, 19.3.1.3, 20.2.1.3, 21.3.1.3, 25.1.1.3, 27.1.1.3, J.4.2, Glossary: Integrating resource, Resource

Also as “web site” in instruction: 0.10


A.29

Current text:

If the guidelines require the capitalization of a hyphenated compound, capitalize the first part, and capitalize the second, etc., part if it is a noun or a proper adjective or if it has the same force as the first part. Do not capitalize the second part if it modifies the first part or if the two parts constitute a single word.


Changed text:

add: Capitalize the second element in a hyphenated spelled-out number or simple fraction


Rationale (cite CMOS):

8.159 (this rule is for hyphenated compounds in headline-style titles but has been incorporated to other rules where capitalization is required, see for ex. Forty-Second Street below)


A.29

Current text: Twenty-five

Changed text: Twenty-Five

Rationale (cite CMOS): 8.159

Note: this example needs to be moved with the previous group of examples.


A.29

Current text: French-speaking

Changed text: French-Speaking

Rationale (cite CMOS): 8.159

Note: This example needs to be moved with the previous group of examples


A.14

Current text: Forty-second Street

Changed text: Forty-Second Street

Rationale (cite CMOS): See example in 9.52


A.11.4

Current text: John the Twenty-third

Changed text: John the Twenty-Third


Rationale (cite CMOS): 8.159 (no example in CMOS16 with spelled-out numbers in names of monarchs and popes spelled out. Rule 9.42 says:” Sovereigns, emperors, popes, and Orthodox patriarchs with the same name are differentiated by numerals, traditionally roman.” But that’s not a new rule. It was also in CMOS15)


A.14.

Current text:

Capitalize the name of a building, monument, or other structure; and the name of a road or street. Do not capitalize words such as avenue, bridge, hotel, and park when they are used alone…


Changed text:

Capitalize the name of a building, monument, or other structure; and the name of a road or street. Do not capitalize generic terms when they are used alone but capitalized them when they are used as part of a plural name.


Rationale (cite CMOS): 8.55

Note: an example such as Fifty-Seventh and Fifty-Fifth Streets should be added


A.16.2

Current text: Twenty-first Regiment of U.S. Infantry

Changed text: Twenty-First Regiment of U.S. Infantry

Rationale (cite CMOS): 8.111


A.16.2

Current text: Congress; the Ninety-fifth Congress (but congressional)

Changed text: Congress; the Ninety-Fifth Congress (but congressional)

Rationale (cite CMOS): See example in 8.61


A.16.5.

Current text: Fifty-second Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association

Changed text: Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association

Rationale (cite CMOS): See example in 8.69


A.17.6

Current text: the Thirty-nine Articles

Changed text: the Thirty-Nine Articles

Rationale (cite CMOS): see example in 8.106


11.2.3.6

Current text: Group of Seventy-seven

Changed text: Group of Seventy-Seven

Rationale (cite CMOS): See example in 8.69


11.2.2.11

Current text:

San Francisco Art Association. Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition

not San Francisco Art Association. Twenty-second Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition


Changed text:

San Francisco Art Association. Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition

not San Francisco Art Association. Twenty-Second Annual Drawing and Print Exhibition


Rationale (cite CMOS): 8.159

Italicization changes (Ian)

Current text:
Changed text:
Rationale (cite CMOS):

Citations changes (Ian)

Current text:
Changed text:
Rationale (cite CMOS):

Other changes (Patricia)

Current text:
Changed text:
Rationale (cite CMOS):

Where the Chicago Manual is mentioned in RDA (Patricia)

Current text:
Changed text:
Rationale (cite CMOS):

1.7.1 General Guidelines on Transcription
When the instructions in chapters 2–4 specify transcription of an element as it appears on the source of information, apply the general guidelines on capitalization, punctuation, symbols, abbreviations, etc., given under 1.7.2–1.7.9. When the guidelines given under 1.7.2–1.7.9 refer to an appendix, apply the additional instructions given in that appendix as applicable to the element being transcribed.

Alternatives
If the agency creating the data has established in-house guidelines for capitalization, punctuation, numerals, symbols, abbreviations, etc., or has designated a published style manual, etc., (e.g., The Chicago Manual of Style) as its preferred guide, use those guidelines or that style manual in place of the instructions given under 1.7.2–1.7.9 and in the appendices.

1.10.2 Capitalization
Apply the instructions on the capitalization of notes given in appendix A (A.8).

Alternatives
If the agency creating the data has established in-house guidelines for capitalization, or has designated a published style manual, etc., (e.g., The Chicago Manual of Style) as its preferred guide, use those guidelines or that style manual in place of appendix A.

A.10 General Guideline
The guidelines for English-language capitalization basically follow those of the Chicago Manual of Style.[1] Certain guidelines that differ have been modified to conform to the requirements of bibliographic records and long-standing cataloguing practice.

[1] Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).

--John Hostage 15:02, 1 March 2012 (CST)
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