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ahr-citation-and-style
Use when formatting citations and notes for an American Historical Review (AHR) manuscript. The AHR follows the Chicago Manual of Style with all references in footnotes/endnotes — no bibliography or works-cited list and no in-text parenthetical citation. Gets the note apparatus right; it does not write the prose or argument.
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# Citation & Chicago Style (ahr-citation-and-style)
The AHR uses **Chicago Manual of Style notes**: every citation lives in a **footnote or endnote**,
there is **no separate bibliography / works-cited list**, and there are **no in-text parenthetical
citations**. The note apparatus is substantial — a guideline of roughly **2:1 text-to-notes** at
initial submission. This skill gets the notes right (verify the current CMOS edition and any AHR house
departures on the live guides).
## When to trigger
- Building or cleaning up the footnotes/endnotes
- Citing archival/manuscript sources, books, articles, or digitized material
- Converting a bibliography-and-author-date draft to Chicago notes
- A reviewer or editor flagged citation form or note density