In 2024, The Chicago Manual of Style released an eighteenth edition. Notable among the updates to bibliographic citations is §14.30, which states that “Chicago no longer requires a place of publication for books published since 1900.” SBL Press follows this recommendation.
A standard bibliographic citation now reads:
1 Esther J. Hamori and Jonathan Stökl. Perchance to Dream: Dream Divination in the Bible and the Ancient Near East, ANEM 21 (SBL Press, 2018).
Hamori, Esther J., and Jonathan Stökl. Perchance to Dream: Dream Divination in the Bible and the Ancient Near East. ANEM 21. SBL Press, 2018.
Similarly, an author-date bibliographic citation reads:
(Byron 2016, 187)
Byron, Gay L. 2016. “Black Collectors and Keepers of Tradition: Resources for a Womanist Biblical Ethic of (Re)Interpretation.” Pages 187–208 in Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse. Edited by Gay L. Byron and Vanessa Lovelace. SemeiaSt 85. SBL Press.
SBL Handbook of Style 
In light of Chicago 18 and the numerous updates and changes to the SBL Handbook second ed that have been recommended on this website, are there any plans for a third edition of the SBL Handbook soon?
LikeLike
We continue to review the changes in Chicago 18 and plan for a third edition of the SBL Handbook of Style. As of yet, however, we do not have an estimate of when a new edition will be published.
LikeLike
Thank you for this update! Are there any other revisions to CMOS 18 that SBL Press has also adopted, or places where SBL Press now chooses to go against CMOS 18? For instance, based on the final example, I would assume that SBL Press does not endorse CMOS 18’s recommendation to drop the full page range from bibliographic entries of essays/chapters (a decision, for what it’s worth, with which I would entirely agree!).
LikeLike
We continue to review the changes in CMOS 18. As of yet, however, we have not made any formal decisions about any additional changes in CMOS 18.
LikeLike