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  2. List of style guides - Wikipedia

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    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 within a document and across multiple documents.

  3. List of style guide abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    MHRA Style Guide: Modern Humanities Research Association: Humanities: British English: MLA [6] MLA Handbook MLA Style Manual: Modern Language Association: Humanities: American English [c] style.mla.org: MSTP [14] Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications: Microsoft: Technical writing: American English: MWDEU [15] Merriam-Webster’s ...

  4. MLA Handbook - Wikipedia

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    MLA Style Manual, formerly titled MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing in its second (1998) and third edition (2008), was an academic style guide by the United States–based Modern Language Association of America (MLA) first published in 1985. MLA announced in April 2015 that the publication would be discontinued: the third ...

  5. Modern Language Association - Wikipedia

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    The Modern Language Association of America, often referred to as the Modern Language Association (MLA), is widely considered the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature. [1] The MLA aims to "strengthen the study and teaching of language and literature". [2]

  6. Sentence spacing in language and style guides - Wikipedia

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    However, the Oxford Style Manual (2003) and the Modern Humanities Research Association's MHRA Style Guide (2002), state that only single spacing should be used. [15] In Canada, both the English and French language sections of the Canadian Style, A Guide to Writing and Editing (1997), prescribe single sentence spacing. [16]

  7. TERMIUM Plus - Wikipedia

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    Aside from the millions of entries recorded by TERMIUM Plus, the database also contains writing tools for both the English and French language (such as The Canadian Style, a writing style guide; and Dictionnaire des cooccurrences, a guide to French collocations), archived glossaries, as well as a link to the Language Portal of Canada ...

  8. Style guide - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  9. Wikipedia:Identifying and using style guides - Wikipedia

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    The four most frequently used style guides for English are also those that are the main bases of our own MoS. These are The Chicago Manual of Style (often called Chicago or CMoS) and Garner's Modern English Usage, for American and to some extent Canadian English; and New Hart's Rules and Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage for British English, and Commonwealth English more broadly.