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| Genre/Form: | Style manuals |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: | American Sociological Association. |
| ISBN: | 9780912764306 0912764309 |
| OCLC Number: | 124152379 |
| Notes: | Previous eds. have title: ASA style guide. |
| Description: | xvi, 108 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface -- A word about the third edition of the ASA Style Guide -- The Chicago Manual of Style -- Other ASA resources -- New to this edition -- Changes to the ASA Style Guide based on revisions of The Chicago Manual of Style -- Other changes to the ASA Style Guide -- 1. ASA editorial style -- 1.1. Style matters -- 1.2. ASA style -- 1.2.1. Some basics -- 1.2.2. Plagiarism -- 1.2.3. Clarity -- 1.2.4. Bias -- 1.2.5. Verbs -- 1.2.6. Wordy phrases -- 1.2.7. Common misusages -- 2. Some mechanics of style -- 2.1. Punctuation -- 2.1.1. Commas -- 2.1.2. Semicolons and colons -- 2.1.3. Hyphens and dashes -- 2.1.4. Em dashes -- 2.1.5. En dashes -- 2.1.6. Apostrophes -- 2.1.7. Quotation marks -- 2.1.8. Quoted material -- 2.1.9. Parentheses and brackets -- 2.1.10. Ellipses -- 2.2. Spelling -- 2.3. Capitalization -- 2.4. Italics -- 2.5. Numbers -- 2.6. Dates -- 2.7. Abbreviations and acronyms -- 2.8. Academic degrees -- 2.9. Foreign words and language usage -- 3. ASA-specific usages and conventions -- 3.1. Hyphenation -- 3.2. Capitalization -- 3.3. Italics -- 3.4. Preferred word usages -- 3.5. Some ASA style guidelines -- 4. Guidelines for organizing and presenting content -- 4.1. Order and form of required pages -- 4.1.1. Title page -- 4.1.2. Abstract -- 4.1.3. Text -- 4.2. Subheadings -- 4.3. Text citations, references, and bibliographies -- 4.3.1. Text citations -- 4.3.2. Reference lists -- 4.4. Legal citations and government documents -- 4.4.1. Legal citations -- 4.4.2. Public documents in general -- 4.5. Footnotes and endnotes -- 4.6. Appendices -- 4.7. Mathematical symbols and equations -- 4.8. Tables, figures, and graphic materials -- 4.8.1. Tables -- 4.8.2. Figures -- 4.8.3. Illustrations and photographs -- 4.9. General manuscript formats and style (non-ASA journals) -- 5. Guidelines for using electronic resources (e-resources) -- 5.1. Some key terms and definitions for electronic resources -- 5.2. The Internet -- 5.3. Forms of electronic references -- 5.3.1. E-books -- 5.3.2. Online periodicals available in print and online form -- 5.3.3. Online periodicals available in online form only -- 5.3.4. Web sites -- 5.3.5. Web log entries or comments -- 5.3.6. E-mail messages -- 5.3.7. Items in online database -- 5.3.8. Data and supporting materials : machine readable data files (MRDF) -- 5.4. Audiovisual materials -- 5.4.1. CD-ROM or DVD-ROM -- 5.4.2. Other audiovisual materials -- 6. Preparing and submitting a manuscript to an ASA journal -- 6.1. Keyboarding specifications -- 6.1.1. Page format -- 6.1.2. Title page -- 6.2. Submitting a manuscript -- 6.3. Ethical guidelines -- 6.4. Copyright -- 6.5. Formatting a manuscript for publication -- 6.6. Checklist for preparing and submitting a manuscript to an ASA journal -- 6.6.1. Keyboarding the manuscript -- 6.6.2. Checking the manuscript content -- 6.6.3. Submitting the manuscript -- 7. Interpreting copyeditors' notations -- 8. References and other sources -- 8.1. References -- 8.2. Other sources -- Appendix -- 1. Books -- 2. Chapters from books, articles from collected works -- 3. Articles from journals -- 4. Articles from newspapers and magazines -- 5. Archival sources -- 6. Government documents -- 7. Dissertations and theses -- 8. Unpublished papers -- 9. Working and discussion papers -- 10. Presented papers -- 11. Machine-readable data files -- 12. E-resources. |
| Other Titles: | ASA style guide American Sociological Association style guide |
| Responsibility: | American Sociological Association. |
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