Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing Books in Order

Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing contains 77 books, published between 1963 and 2025. The first book is Student's Guide To Writing College Papers (1963) and the newest is Teaching And Mentoring Writers In The Sciences (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
77
Published
1963–2025
Pages on record
11,147 in 44 of 77 books
Reading time
186–279 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 11,147 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 44 of 77 titles with a page count on record.

Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing is a series of handbooks on authorship and the publishing process. 77 volumes run from Student's Guide To Writing College Papers (1963) to Teaching And Mentoring Writers In The Sciences (2025). Academic writing, dissertations, editing, translation and technical writing are the recurring subjects, in titles such as A Manual For Writers Of Term Papers, Theses, And Dissertations, Writing For Social Scientists and The Craft Of Translation. The median volume runs 228 pages.

How many Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing books are there?

Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing has 77 books, released between 1963 and 2025.

Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 77 Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. 1
    Student's Guide To Writing College Papers1963 · 281 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1963281
  2. 2
    On Writing, Editing, And Publishing1971 · 148 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1971148
  3. 3
    Writing For Social Scientists1986 · confirmed 1/4
    1986
  4. 4
    Getting Into Print1986 · 260 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986260
  5. 51987300
  6. 6
    Chicago Guide To Preparing Electronic Manuscripts1987 · 143 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1987143
  7. 7
    A Handbook Of Biological Illustration1988 · 137 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988137
  8. 8
    Tales Of The Field1988 · 173 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988173
  9. 9
    The Craft Of Translation1989 · 153 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989153
  10. 10
    Style1990 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990208
  11. 11
    Mapping It Out1993 · 301 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993301
  12. 12
    Glossary Of Typesetting Terms1995 · 169 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995169
  13. 13
    Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes1995 · confirmed 1/4
    1995
  14. 141996308
  15. 15
    Casuistry And Modern Ethics1996 · 308 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996308
  16. 16
    Tricks Of The Trade1998 · 232 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998232
  17. 17
    A Poet's Guide To Poetry1999 · 561 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999561
  18. 18
    Getting It Published2001 · 197 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001197
  19. 19
    The Craft Of Research2003 · 329 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003329
  20. 20
    Doing Honest Work In College2004 · 189 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004189
  21. 21
    The Chicago Guide To Writing About Numbers2004 · 312 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004312
  22. 22
    From Dissertation To Book2005 · 141 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005141
  23. 232005424
  24. 242005
  25. 25
    Indexing Books2005 · 315 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005315
  26. 26
    Permissions, A Survival Guide2006 · 177 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2006177
  27. 27
    Cite Right2006 · 197 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2006197
  28. 28
    Telling About Society2007 · confirmed 1/4
    2007
  29. 29
    Developmental Editing2009 · 252 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009252
  30. 30
    The Dramatic Writer's Companion2009 · 318 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009318

Where to start with Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing

Start with Student's Guide To Writing College Papers (1963), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing book?

Teaching And Mentoring Writers In The Sciences (2025) is the newest Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing book released so far.

Is there a new Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing book coming?

No next Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing at a glance

Still running
Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing is still running, with a title published as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
11,147 pages across the 44 of 77 books with a recorded length, a median of 228 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing books, 33 of 77, were published in the 2010s.
Attribution
Of the 77 titles, 6 are credited to Kate L. Turabian, 4 to Joseph M. Williams, 3 to University of Chicago Press and 3 to Gregory G. Colomb. A further 64 writers are credited. One title carries no credit.

What the Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing books are about

46 of the 77 Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: authorship is tagged on 18 of 46. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Authorship 18 of 46 books
  • Handbooks, manuals 12 of 46 books
  • Academic writing 10 of 46 books
  • Editing 7 of 46 books
  • Creative writing 5 of 46 books
  • Report writing 5 of 46 books
  • Writing 5 of 46 books
  • Academic Dissertations 4 of 46 books
  • Authors and publishers 4 of 46 books
  • Research 4 of 46 books
  • Technical writing 4 of 46 books
  • Art d'écrire 3 of 46 books