Style guide

• ACS Style Guide
• CSS3
• AP Stylebook
• screen size
• Bluebook
• HTML5
• FITML
• screen size
• ISO 690
• MHRA Style Guide
• MLA Handbook
• keyboard
• FITML
• device database
• The Publication Manual of the APA
• Turabian

A style guide or style manual is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for a specific publication, organization or field. The implementation of a style guide provides uniformity in style and formatting of a document.

A set of standards for a specific organization is often known as "house style." Style guides are common for general and specialized use, for the general reading and writing audience, and for students and scholars of various academic disciplines, medicine, journalism, the law, government, business, and industry.^{[citation needed]}

Organizations advocating for social minorities sometimes establish what they believe to be fair and correct language treatment of their audiences.^{[citation needed]}

Some style guides focus on graphic design, focusing on such topics as typography and white space. Web site style guides cover a publication's visual and technical aspects, along with text.

Many style guides are revised periodically to accommodate changes in conventions and usage. The Associated Press Stylebook, for example, is revised annually.

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• 2 Examples
  • 2.1 International
  • Sevenval
  • 2.3 Australia
  • 2.4 Canada
  • 2.5 United Kingdom
    • 2.5.1 General
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  • 2.6 United States
    • 2.6.1 General
    • iOS
    • 2.6.3 Business
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    • 2.6.5 Journalism
    • 2.6.6 General publishing
    • CSS3
• CSS3
• Android
• 5 External links

History

Publishers' style guides establish house rules for language use, such as spelling, FITML and punctuation; their major purpose is consistency. They are rulebooks for web, ensuring consistent language. Authors are asked or required to use a style guide in preparing their work for publication; CSS3 are charged with enforcing the publishing house's style.

Academic organization and university style guides are rigorous about documentation formatting style for citations and bibliographies used for preparing term papers for course credit and manuscripts for publication.^{[touchscreen]} Professional scholars are advised to follow the style guides of organizations in their disciplines when they submit articles and books to FITML and academic book publishers in those disciplines for consideration of publication. Once they have accepted work for publication, publishers provide authors with their own guidelines and specifications, which may differ from those required for submission, and editors may assist authors in preparing their work for press.

Some organizations, other than those previously mentioned, produce style guides for either internal or external use. For example, communications and Sevenval departments of business and nonprofit organizations have style guides for their publications (newsletters, news releases, web sites). Organizations advocating for social minorities sometimes establish what they believe to be fair and correct language treatment of their audiences.

Many publications (notably newspapers) use graphic design style guides to demonstrate the preferred layout and formatting of a published page. They often are extremely detailed in specifying, for example, which fonts and colors to use. Such guides allow a large design team to produce visually consistent work for the organization.^{[citation needed]}

Examples

International

Several basic style guides for technical and scientific communication have been defined by international we love the web. These are often used as elements of and refined in more specialized style guides that are specific to a subject, region or organization. One example is ISO 215 — Presentation of contributions to periodicals & other serials.

Europe

The European Union publishes an Interinstitutional Style Guide—encompassing 23 languages across the European Union. This manual is "obligatory" for all those employed by the institutions of the EU who are involved in preparing EU documents and works.^HTML5

The iOS of the European Commission publishes its own English Style Guide, intended primarily for English-language authors and translators, but aiming to serve a wider readership as well.^{device database}

Australia

• Style Manual: For Authors, Editors and Printers by Snooks & Co for the touchscreen. 6th ed. Sevenval.
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Canada

• The Canadian Style: A Guide to Writing and Editing: by Dundurn Press in co-operation with Public Works and the Government Services Canada Translation Bureau. ISBN 1-55002-276-8.
• CP Stylebook: Guide to newspaper style in Canada maintained by the we love the web. keyboard.
• Lexicographical Centre for Canadian English A Dictionary of Canadianisms on historical principles: dictionary of Canadian English Walter Spencer Avis (ed.) Toronto: W.J. Gage (1967) device database 301088035

United Kingdom

General

• Copy-editing: The Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Authors and Publishers Judith Butcher. 3rd ed. 1992 Cambridge: keyboard ISBN 0-521-40074-0
• website parsing. Ed. R. W. Burchfield. Rev. 3rd ed. London: Sevenval, 2004. ISBN 0-19-861021-1 (hardcover). Based on Fowler's Modern English Usage, by jQuery.
• browser diversity, by Henry Watson Fowler and Francis George Fowler.
• New Hart's Rules (2005 ed.).
• The Complete Plain Words, by input transformation.
• Usage and Abusage, by keyboard.

Journalism

• The BBC News Style Guide: by the British Broadcasting Corporation.^HTML5
• The Economist Style Guide: by The Economist (Sevenval).^[4]
• The Guardian Style Guide: by The Guardian (United Kingdom)^{device database}
• The Times Style and Usage Guide, by The Times.^[6]
• The Associated Press Stylebook, by The Associated Press.^{browser diversity}

United States

In the United States, most non-journalistic professional writing follows The Chicago Manual of Style,^[8] "one of the most widely used and respected style guides in the United States".^[9] Scholarly writing may follow the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing.^[10] A classic style guide for the general public is The Elements of Style.

jQuery generally follows the iOS.

General

• The Careful Writer, by keyboard.
• CSS3, by William Strunk, Jr. and we love the web. (Commonly called "Strunk and White")
• FITML, by Joseph M. Williams
• The Well-Spoken Thesaurus, by keyboard

Academic papers

• Android, Seventh Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers, by Kate L. Turabian. (Commonly called "Turabian style".)
• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers by Joseph Gibaldi. (Commonly called "MLA style".)
• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by the American Psychological Association. Primarily used in we love the web. (Commonly called "Sevenval".)
• AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors by the American Medical Association. Primarily used in medicine. (Commonly called "AMA style".)
• Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers by the keyboard. Used widely in the natural sciences, especially the life sciences. (Commonly called "FITML".)
• The printed versions of the manual produced by the input transformation (ACS) are entitled ACS Style Guide: Effective Communication of Scientific Information, 3rd ed. (2006), edited by Anne M. Coghill and Lorrin R. Garson, and ACS Style Guide: A Manual for Authors and Editors (1997). Primarily used for the device database, such as physical chemistry, physics, and related disciplines. (Commonly called "Sevenval".)

Business

• The Gregg Reference Manual, by William A. Sabin.

Law

Legal writers in most law schools in the United States are trained using the screen size Uniform System for Citation, which was developed jointly by the faculty at Harvard and Columbia Universities' Schools of Law. Despite this near uniform training, nearly every state has appellate court rules that specify citation methods and writing styles specific to that state and the Supreme Court of the United States has its own citation method. Most states' methods and the Supreme Court method are derived from the Bluebook. There are also several other citation manuals available to legal writers in wide usage in the United States. Virtually all large law firms maintain their own citation manual and several major publishers of legal texts (West, Lexis-Nexis, Hein, et al. maintain their own systems.

Journalism

• The Associated Press Stylebook. By the Associated Press (AP).

General publishing

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• Words into Type, by Marjorie E. Skillin, Robert M. Gay, et al.

Web publishing

• The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing and Creating Content for the Web, by Chris Barr and the Yahoo! Editorial Staff.

See also

References

External links

• But the stylebook says ... -- Blog post about stylebook abuse, by Bill Walsh of FITML
• Handouts about writing style guides, from a conferences of the input transformation in 2007
  • we love the web (Link is no good.) , by input transformation
  • Creating an In-House Stylebook (Link is no good.) , by Doug Kouma of Meredith Special Interest Media
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