Style guide
A style guide is a work aiming to set out rules for writers. In such works, style can have two meanings:- Publication conventions for markup style, such as italicization of book and movie titles, expression of dates and numbers, or formats for footnotes.
- Literary considerations of prose style, such as best usage, common grammatical errors, rules or suggestions for the most forceful expression of ideas.
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Some style guides for the English language
Academic
- APA style: academic style for the social sciences by the American Psychological Association
- The MLA style manual: academic style for the arts by the Modern Language Association of America
- The Chicago Manual of Style: mostly publishing conventions
- Words into Type: publishing conventions, less scholarly, more accessible than the Chicago Manual
- Turabian: academic style based on the Chicago Manual
Journalism
- Associated Press Stylebook: the foremost guide to newspaper style in the US
General
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr and E. B. White: mostly literary style, American
- Fowler's Modern English Usage: more a grammar guide than a style guide, British, later editions not written by Henry W. Fowler
- Oxford Style Manual: The 2003 work combines The Oxford Guide to Style and The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors with the latter emphasizing common problems.
- Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
- Plain Words by Sir Ernest Gowers: mostly literary style, British slant
Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style: the style guide1 for this encyclopedia, Wikipedia
Books
- Usage and Abusage by Eric Partridge
- The King's English by Kingsley Amis
- Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
- Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor The Columbia Guide to Online Style; Columbia University Press ISBN 0231107897 (paperback, 1998) and ISBN 0231107889 (hardback, 1998)
- The Chicago Manual of Style; University of Chicago Press; ISBN 0-226-10403-6 (15th edition, hardcover, 2003). Margaret D. F. Mahan wrote the preface, but is not credited as editor.
- H.W. Fowler and Robert Burchfield (editor); The New Fowler's Modern English Usage; Clarendon Press; ISBN 0198602634 (revised 3rd edition, hardcover, 2000)
See also
External links
- The Guardian's style guide
- The Economist's style guide
- The University of Memphis list of Style Manuals & Guides
- Yale Style Manual (for web pages)
Footnote
1Wikipedia has several recommendations as to writing style, such as:
