Writing Style Websites

Links to Writing Style Guides on the Internet

This page includes links to the online versions of general style guides, such as the APA Style Guide and Chicago Manual of Style, as well as many others.

• Citing Electronic Resources: A good collection of Web-based and print resources for citing information.
• Citation of Electronic Resources
• Citing Electronic Resources A listing of guides for citing electronic and Internet sources.
• Columbia University Press Guide to Online Style: A comprehensive manual that not only covers citation of online documents but provides guidelines for producing them.
• Columbia Guide to Online Style:
  APA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources
• Columbia Guide to Online Style:
  MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources Two one page guides by electronic style expert, Janice R. Walker of the English Department at the University of South Florida. The MLA style sheet is endorsed by the Alliance for Computers & Writing.
• Documentation and Style Guide: A great guideline that provides the basics involved in documentation using footnotes. Very detailed.
• Documenting Electronic Resources Using APA Style: Some good advice and examples from the McConnell Library at Radford University.
• The Economist's Style Guide - Entertaining and instructive in-house guide to writing and usage.
• Elements of Style by William Strunk Here's the 1918 edition of this classic on grammar and composition. Part of the Bartelby Archive. This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.
• Footnote and Citation Style Guides: Summarize instructions for generating footnotes and bibliographies in various subject disciplines.
• Garbl's Editorial Style Manual - Style manual for abbreviations, capitalization, grammar, numbers, punctuation, spelling and word usage.
• Guides for Better Science Writing - Bibliography of style manuals for scientific research, writing, and presentation. Guides for biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, geology, and mathematics.
• Guide to Grammar and Style Notes by Jack Lynch - The information ranges from copy editing to elements of style to discussions. Practical information about the writing craft.
• How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography: A short guide to the process of writing annotated bibliographies.
• Karla's Guide to Citation Manuals Annotated page of links to various styles for citing electronic sources. Covers, for example, MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian, and CBE (Biology) styles. Part of Journalism Resources compiled and edited by Karla Tonella at the University of Iowa.
• KCI: Reader Based Writing Style Guide - Designed to help you bullet-proof your writing. Use it to learn the elements of classic business writing style, to find answers to frequently asked questions about preferred usages, or to trouble-shoot a document before you send it out.
• MLA Style – Modern Language Association of America These guidelines on MLA documentation style are the only ones available on the Internet that are authorized by the Modern Language Association of America.
• Modern Language Association - The Modern Language Association is the official guide to non-fiction writing. The site includes a guide to MLA style.
• MLA Works Cited Style Sheet: This site is designed for quick reference and does not include the entire MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers .
• A Style Sheet for Citing Internet Resources: MLA Style An adapted version of the style sheet created by Janice R. Walker of the University of South Florida
• Electronic Sources: MLA Style of Citation
• Electronic Sources: APA Style of Citation Two one page guides by Xia Li, co-author of the standard print source for online citation styles, Electronic Styles: A Handbook for Citing Electronic Information
• On-line Resources for Documenting Electronic Sources: from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
• Style Sheet for Citing Internet Sources
• Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format: from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
• Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format: from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
• The Elements of E-Mail Style: Communicate Effectively Via Electronic Mail (1994), by Brent D. Heslop and David Angell. Addison-Wesley.
• The Slot A regularly updated style guide and webzine for copy editors by Bill Walsh. This site includes The Curmudgeon's Stylebook which is intended to supplement the AP stylebook. Covers everything from capitalization to punctuation to word choice.
• Writers' Workshop - Bibliography Styles Handbook - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign This handbook summarizes and illustrates the bibliographical formatting rules for three different citation styles: the American Psychological Association (APA) style, the new Modern Language Association (MLA) style, and the old MLA style.
• Wired Style - Principles of English usage in the Digital Age. Began as a single sheet of paper onto which copy editors at Wired magazine recorded every style conundrum they came upon while combing through the copy at the future-friendly magazine.
• Writing For Multimedia - Style guide for multimedia.
• Yale Style Manual - A style manual for the design of Web pages and Web sites. Covers graphic and information design, page layout, Web graphics, site organization, navigation, and Web multimedia content.

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