Style Guide standards: APA or the Chicago Manual of Style?

["Peter Swisher" <PeteS -at- bmgi -dot- com>]

Your help is needed!

The company I am contracting at has not yet defined their writing style.
Think it a simple task, I was in the process of writing a style guide
for them. They asked me to hold off. Apparently, there is a big
political hoo ha about the undefined style guide around here. There are
two factions:

One side, including the president who has a doctorate in Physics and a
junior salesperson whose girlfriend is a "writer", believe in the APA. 

The other side, including me and the HR manager whose friend is a
"writer", believe in the Chicago Manual of Style.

>From the archives, I've found the Chicago Manual of Style to be
preferred by this group. However, I couldn't find any other facts to
back it up. Could anyone help?

I didn't realize this would be such a big deal!

Thanks,
Pete

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