American Sociological Association style guide
| Other Authors: | American Sociological Association. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Washington, DC :
American Sociological Association,
[2010]
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| Physical Description: |
xiv, 114 pages ; 18 cm. |
| Edition: | 4th ed. |
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| Item Description: |
"The ASA Style Guide highlights and features guidelines for the most common situations encountered by authors and editors in the ASA journal publication process. It is designed to serve as the authoritative reference for writing, submitting, editing, and copy editing manuscripts for ASA journals"--P. xi. Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-97) and index. Preface -- A word about the fourth edition of the ASA Style Guide -- Chicago Manual of Style -- Other ASA resources -- New to the fourth edition -- 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 -- |
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| Physical Description: |
xiv, 114 pages ; 18 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-97) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780912764313 0912764317 |