Add 11 new exemplars pulled verbatim from the CMOS official quick guide (chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html): - book_two_authors_binder: Binder & Kidder (two-author book) - book_chapter_doyle: Doyle in Marks & Parkin (chapter in edited volume, no page range per CMOS 18) - book_translated_liu: Liu Xinwu, trans. Tiang (translated book, non- Western name not comma-inverted) - book_edition_borel: Borel, 2nd ed. via EBSCOhost (edition + database) - book_ebook_roy: Roy, Kindle format - journal_many_authors_snyder: 7 authors in PLOS ONE, exercises the CMOS 18 "first 3 + et al." threshold and article-ID page format - magazine_mead: New Yorker (tests leading-"The" drop) - newspaper_blum: NYT with URL (tests abbreviation expansion) - social_media_cmos_facebook: Facebook post with case preservation - podcast_ober: Pushkin podcast with season/episode/duration - video_cowan_ted: TED Talk with venue and duration Every exemplar is marked canary=true — we want byte-exact regression detection on all of them. Source citations and CMOS rule justifications are in the TOML doc comments. All 14 canonical outputs lint clean under LINTER_VERSION v0.2.0. The harness will score them in the following commit.
Exemplars
Each .toml file is one exemplar: a messy input, a canonical structured
record, and an expected CMOS 18 bibliography string.
Format
# IMPORTANT: all top-level keys (including expected_bibliography) must come
# BEFORE any [section] header, or TOML will absorb them into that section.
source = "Purdue OWL CMOS 18 NB PDF, p. X" # provenance, required
type = "book" # book | journal | chapter | web | ai | ...
tags = ["book", "single-author"]
canary = false # if true, exact-string match required
messy_input = "..."
expected_bibliography = "Last, First. *The Book Title*. Publisher Name, 2023."
[canonical]
# Structured fields for the field-level diff. Fields vary by type.
author = "Last, First"
title = "The Book Title"
publisher = "Publisher Name"
year = 2023
Primary sources
- Purdue OWL CMOS 18 NB PDF: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/chicago_manual_18th_edition/documents/cmos-nb-20250731.pdf
- CMOS official quick guide: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html
- Widener "New in 18th" LibGuide: https://widener.libguides.com/Chicago18/New