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Style guides
ACS style
AIP style
AMA Manual of Style
AP Stylebook
APA Style
The ASA Style Guide
Australian Guide to Legal Citation
The Bluebook
The Business Style Handbook
California Style Manual
The Cambridge Guide to English Usage
The Chicago Manual of Style
Citing Medicine
The Elements of Style
The Elements of Typographic Style
Fowler's Modern English Usage
Garner's Modern English Usage
IEEE style
ISO 690
MHRA Style Guide
Microsoft Manual of Style
MLA Handbook
The New York Times Manual
The Oxford Guide to Style/New Hart's Rules
Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA) / Oxford style
Scientific Style and Format (CSE style)
Turabian: A Manual for Writers
List of style guide abbreviations
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A style guide is a set of standards for the writing, formatting, and design of documents.[1] A book-length style guide is often called a style manual or a manual of style (MoS or MOS). A short style guide, typically ranging from several to several dozen pages, is often called a style sheet. The standards documented in a style guide are applicable either for general use, or prescribed use for an individual publication, particular organization, or specific field.
A style guide establishes standard style requirements to improve communication by ensuring consistency within and across documents. They may require certain best practices in writing style, usage, language composition, visual composition, orthography, and typography by setting standards of usage in areas such as punctuation, capitalization, citing sources, formatting of numbers and dates, table appearance and other areas. For academic and technical documents, a guide may also enforce the best practice in ethics (such as authorship, research ethics, and disclosure) and compliance (technical and regulatory). For translations, a style guide may even be used to enforce consistent grammar, tones, and localization decisions such as units of measure.
Style guides are specialized in a variety of ways, from the general use of a broad public audience, to a wide variety of specialized uses (such as for students and scholars of various academic disciplines, medicine, journalism, the law, government, business, and specific industries). The term house style refers to the conventions defined by the style guide of a particular publisher or other organization.
^"The Guardian and Observer style guide". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
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