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  2. Wikipedia:Using nicknames - Wikipedia

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    (The quotation marks are optional in such a construction; do not edit war, either to include or to remove them.) Do not insert a nickname into the name, as in: Xen "Fisty" Zounds; unless the most common name for the subject in reliable sources is that exact form, with the nickname added mid-name, as in Benjamin "Pap" Singleton. This is quite rare.

  3. The Chicago Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Chicago Manual of Style (abbreviated as CMOS, TCM, or CMS, or sometimes as Chicago[1]) is a style guide for American English published since 1906 by the University of Chicago Press. Its 18 editions (the most recent in 2024) have prescribed writing and citation styles widely used in publishing. [2]

  4. Nicknames of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    City of Big Shoulders. [edit] "City of Big Shoulders" is a nickname coined by Carl Sandburg in his 1914 poem " Chicago," which describes the city as "stormy, husky, [and] brawling." It is the last of several nicknames in the poem; the others hint at the city's major industrial activities, for example, the meat-packing industry and railroad ...

  5. Wikipedia talk:Using nicknames - Wikipedia

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    As noted in the second of my longer responses in the thread above, our editors here are not being in any way consistent about any of this, so you can find many cases of non-nicknames (abbreviations or diminutives like Will or Betty) being put in "scare quotes" as if they're nicknames like "Ratface" or "Albuquerque Ace", and you can find many ...

  6. Wikipedia:Citing sources

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    Forms of short citations used include author-date referencing (APA style, Harvard style, or Chicago style), and author-title or author-page referencing (MLA style or Chicago style). As before, the list of footnotes is automatically generated in a "Notes" or "Footnotes" section, which immediately precedes the "References" section containing the ...

  7. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Titles of works/Archive 1

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    From The Chicago Manual of Style (8.202): Titles of operas, oratorios, tone poems, and other long musical compositions are italicized. Titles of songs are set in roman and enclosed in quotation marks, capitalized in the same way as poems (see 8.191–92). (8.205):

  8. Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The proper citation of Wikipedia, the site, as referenced in APA 5th Edition Style is: Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia. (2004, July 22). FL: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Retrieved August 10, 2004, from https://www.wikipedia.org. The in-text citation formation would be (Wikipedia, 2004).

  9. Quotation marks in English - Wikipedia

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    Quotation marks in English. In English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, talking marks, [ 1 ][ 2 ] speech marks, [ 3 ] quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify it as a quotation, direct speech or a literal title or name.