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Summary:
- Provides information on manuscript preparation, punctuation, spelling, quotations, captions, tables, abbreviations, references, bibliographies, notes, and indexes, with sections on journals and electronic media.
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Table of Contents:
- The publishing process
- Books and journals
- Overview
- The parts of a book
- The parts of a journal
- Considerations for web-based publications
- Manuscript preparation, manuscript editing, and proofreading
- Overview and process outline
- Manuscript preparation guidelines for authors
- Manuscript editing
- Proofreading
- Illustrations and tables
- Overview
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Rights, permissions, and copyright administration / by William S. Strong
- Overview
- Copyright law and the licensing of rights
- The publishing agreement
- Subsidiary rights and permissions
- The author's responsibilities
- Style and usage
- Grammar and usage / by Bryan A. Garner
- Grammar
- Word usage
- Punctuation
- Overview
- Punctuation in relation to surrounding text
- Periods
- Commas
- Semicolons
- Colons
- Question marks
- Exclamation points
- Hyphens and dashes
- Parentheses
- Brackets and braces
- Slashes
- Quotation marks
- Apostrophes
- Multiple punctuation marks
- Lists and outline style
- Spelling, distinctive treatment of words, and compounds
- Overview
- Plurals
- Possessives
- Contractions and interjections
- Word division
- A and an, o and oh
- Ligatures
- Italics, capitals, and quotation marks
- Compounds and hyphenation
- Names and terms
- Overview
- Personal names
- Titles and offices
- Epithets, kinship names, and personifications
- Ethnic, socioeconomic, and other groups
- Names of places
- Words derived from proper names
- Names of organizations
- Historical and cultural terms
- Calendar and time designations
- Religious names and terms
- Military terms
- Names of ships and other vehicles
- Scientific terminology
- Brand names and trademarks
- Titles of works
- Signs and mottoes
- Numbers
- Overview
- Numerals versus words
- Plurals and punctuation of numbers
- Inclusive numbers
- Roman numerals
- Abbreviations
- Overview
- Names and titles
- Geographical terms
- Designations of time
- Scholarly abbreviations
- Biblical abbreviations
- Technology and science
- Business and commerce
- Foreign languages
- Overview
- Titles and other proper names
- Languages using the Latin alphabet
- Languages usually transliterated (or romanized)
- Classical Greek
- Old English and middle English
- American sign language
- Mathematics in type
- Overview
- Style of mathematical expressions
- Preparation and editing of paper manuscripts
- Quotations and dialogue
- Overview
- Permissible changes to quotations
- Quotations in relation to text
- Quotation marks
- Ellipses
- Interpolations and clarifications
- Citing sources in text
- Foreign-language quotations
- Documentation
- Documentation I: notes and bibliography
- Source citations: an overview
- Notes and bibliography: basic format, with examples and variations
- Notes
- Bibliographies
- Books
- Periodicals
- Interviews and personal communications
- Unpublished and informally published material
- Special types of references
- Audiovisual materials
- Legal and public documents
- Documentation II: author-date references
- Overview
- Author-date references: basic format, with examples and variations
- Reference lists and text citations
- Author-date references: special cases
- Indexes
- Overview
- Components of an index
- General principles of indexing
- Indexing proper names and variants
- Indexing titles of publications and other works
- Alphabetizing
- Punctuating indexes: a summary
- The mechanics of indexing
- Editing an index compiled by someone else
- Typographical considerations for indexes
- Examples of indexes
- Appendix A: production and digital technology
- Overview
- Markup
- Design
- The electronic workflow
- Options for presenting content
- Print technologies
- Appendix B: glossary.
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [907]-924) and index.
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Physical Description:
- 1 volume (various pagings) ; 24 cm
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Call Numbers:
- Z253 .U69 2010
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ISBNs:
- 9780226104201 (cloth, alk. paper)
0226104206 (cloth, alk. paper)
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Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2009053612
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OCLC Numbers:
- 495102182