• Publication conventions for markup style, such as italicization of book and movie titles, expression of dates and numbers, or the various formats used for citing references.
• Literary considerations of prose style, such as best usage, common grammatical errors, rules or suggestions for the most forceful expression of ideas.

Table of contents

1 Users 2 Some style guides for the English language 2.1 Academic 2.2 Journalism 2.3 General 2.4 Wikipedia 3 Books 4 See also 5 External links 6 Footnote

Users

Style guides are used by various populations. They are required of scholars submitting research articles to academic journals. Some university teachers require their students to use a particular style guide in preparing their theses or term papers. Authors of books are often asked or required to use a style guide in readying their work for publication. The Wikipedia is also loosely governed by style guides, listed below.

Style guides are a powerful force in furthering the cause of language standardization and normative grammar. The users of style guides are usually under compulsion to obey them, and the standardized forms created under the guides' influence are often published and then serve as models for other writers.

Some style guides for the English language

Academic

• APA style: academic style for the social sciences by the American Psychological Association
• The MLA style manual: academic style for the arts and humanities by the Modern Language Association of America
• The Chicago Manual of Style: mostly publishing conventions
• Words into Type: publishing conventions, less scholarly, more accessible than the Chicago Manual
• Turabian: academic style based on the Chicago Manual

• Associated Press Stylebook: the foremost guide to newspaper style in the US
• BBC News Style Guide: from the British Broadcasting Corporation
• The Guardian Style Guide: from The Guardian (UK)
• The Times Style and Usage Guide: from The Times (UK)

• The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr and E. B. White: mostly literary style, American
• Fowler's Modern English Usage: more a grammar guide than a style guide, British, later editions not written by Henry W. Fowler
• Oxford Style Manual: The 2003 work combines The Oxford Guide to Style and The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors with the latter emphasizing common problems.
• Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
• Plain Words by Sir Ernest Gowers: mostly literary style, British slant

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style: the style guide¹ for this encyclopedia, Wikipedia

• Usage and Abusage by Eric Partridge
• The King's English by Kingsley Amis
• Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
• Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor The Columbia Guide to Online Style; Columbia University Press ISBN 0231107897 (paperback, 1998) and ISBN 0231107889 (hardback, 1998)
• The Chicago Manual of Style; University of Chicago Press; ISBN 0-226-10403-6 (15th edition, hardcover, 2003). Margaret D. F. Mahan wrote the preface, but is not credited as editor.
• H.W. Fowler and Robert Burchfield (editor); The New Fowler's Modern English Usage; Clarendon Press; ISBN 0198602634 (revised 3rd edition, hardcover, 2000)

• English writing style

• The Guardian's style guide
• The Economist's style guide
• The University of Memphis list of Style Manuals & Guides
• Yale Style Manual (for web pages)