General Writing Guides

Elements of Style (Bartleby Library, Columbia University)

William Strunk, Jr., 1918

Grammar and Style Notes (Jack Lynch)

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/grammar.html

Notes on Writing Papers and Theses (Ken Lertzman, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)

The King's English (Bartleby Library, Columbia University)

H. W. Fowler, 1908 http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/fowler 

 

Specialty Writing Guides

Gramar, Punctuation, and Capitalization: A handbook for technical writers and editors (Mary K. McCaskill, Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virgina)

Note: Large PDF document. Requires Acrobat reader.

World Wide Web (WWW) Server Standards and Guidelines (U.S. Department of Education)

Institutions and organizations needing to standardize their Web efforts might use this as a model for a style guide for online content. It provides an idea of the scope that is required -- covering such issues as navigation/organization and style/markup, and includes links to the guides of other agencies as well as to hypertext style guides from many sources. http://www.ed.gov/internal/wwwstds.html

Style Manuals

Bibliography Style Handbook (Writers' Workshop, UIUC)

This Handbook summarizes and illustrates the bibliographical formatting rules for three different citation styles: the American Psychological Association (APA) style, the new Modern Languages Association (MLA) style, and the old MLA style.

Chicago Manual of Style

The Bible of the publishing and research community. The Chicago Manual of Style Online is completely searchable and easy to use, providing quick answers to your style and editing questions. Content includes new coverage of journals and electronic publications, a comprehensive new chapter on American English grammar and usage, reorganized and updated chapters on documentation, plus guidance on citing electronic sources, and new diagrams of the editing and production processes for both books and journals.

Citing Medicine

With this publication, Citing Medicine, the National Library of Medicine strives to provide those charged with capturing an accurate scholarly citation with a guide to do so in this new era of electronic information, both permanent and ephemeral. We hope you find it useful in your pursuit of scholarship and the published word. We welcome your suggestions for improving Citing Medicine in the future.

Citing OMIM (OMIM)

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, OMIM (TM). Center for Medical Genetics, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) and National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, MD), 1999.

Electronic References (APA)

Excerpted from the new 5th edition of the Publication Manual

How to Cite ACP Journal Club (ACP-ASIM)

The citation styles reflect ACP Journal Club's new status as an independent publication, beginning with the November/December 1994 issue. Citation of material published in earlier issues should follow the citation guidelines published in those issues.

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors)

Sometimes referred to as the Vancouver Style. Updated May, 2000. http://www.icmje.org/

Web Extension to American Psychological Association Style (WEAPAS)

http://www.beadsland.com/weapas/