This list of style guide abbreviations provides the meanings of the abbreviations that are commonly used as short ways to refer to major style guides. They are used especially by editors communicating with other editors in manuscript queries, proof queries, marginalia, emails, message boards, and so on.
Abbreviation | Style guide | Organization | Field/subject | Principal national variety | Reference |
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ACS | ACS style | American Chemical Society | chemistry, chemical engineering | American | pubs.acs.org |
ASG | Apple Style Guide | Apple Inc. | general | American | apple.com |
AHD | The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | general | American | ahdictionary.com |
AMA | AMA Manual of Style | American Medical Association | medicine, health care | American | www.amamanualofstyle.com |
AP | AP Stylebook | Associated Press | journalism, wire service | American | www.apstylebook.com |
APA | APA style | American Psychological Association | psychology, social sciences | American | www.apastyle.org |
BCE | Butcher’s Copy-editing | Cambridge University Press | general; publishing | British | |
BSH | The Business Style Handbook | McGraw-Hill | business writing | American | |
CBE | Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, 6th edition, now called Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers | Council of Science Editors back when it was called the Council of Biology Editors | science, especially life sciences | American | |
CGEL | Cambridge Grammar of the English Language | Cambridge University Press | grammar and usage | British | |
CGEU | Cambridge Guide to English Usage | Cambridge University Press | grammar and usage | British | |
CMOS | The Chicago Manual of Style | University of Chicago Press | general use, publishing | American | www.chicagomanualofstyle.org |
CMS (less commonly used than CMOS) | The Chicago Manual of Style | University of Chicago Press | general use, publishing | American | www.chicagomanualofstyle.org |
CSE | Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers | Council of Science Editors | science, especially life sciences | American | |
GMAU | Garner's Modern American Usage | Oxford University Press | grammar and usage | American | |
GPO | U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual | United States Government Publishing Office | government publishing | American | www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008 |
GRM | The Gregg Reference Manual | McGraw-Hill Higher Education | business records and correspondence | American, Canadian | mhhe.com/business/buscom/gregg/ |
ISO 690 | ISO 690 | International Organization for Standardization | general | American | [1] |
MAU | Modern American Usage by Follett, often called Follett's Modern American Usage | grammar and usage | American | ||
MEUB | Fowler’s Modern English Usage, Burchfield edition | grammar and usage | British | ||
MEUF | Fowler’s Modern English Usage, Fowler edition | grammar and usage | British | ||
MEUG | Fowler’s Modern English Usage, Gowers edition | grammar and usage | British | ||
MHRA | MHRA Style Guide | Modern Humanities Research Association | humanities | British | |
MLA | MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing | Modern Language Association | humanities | American | www.mla.org/store/CID25/PID341 |
MLAH | The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers | Modern Language Association | humanities | American | www.mlahandbook.org |
MSTP | Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications | Microsoft | technical writing on IT topics | American | |
MWC | Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary | Merriam-Webster | general | American | unabridged.merriam-webster.com/collegiate |
MWCD | Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary | Merriam-Webster | general | American | unabridged.merriam-webster.com/collegiate |
MWDS | Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Synonyms | Merriam-Webster | general | American | |
MWDEU | Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage | Merriam-Webster | grammar and usage | American | |
MWEU | Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage | Merriam-Webster | grammar and usage | American | |
MWG | Merriam-Webster’s Guide to Punctuation and Style | Merriam-Webster | general | American | |
MWM | Merriam-Webster’s Manual for Writers and Editors (2nd ed. of MWSM) | Merriam-Webster | general | American | |
MWNI2 | Merriam-Webster’s New International Dictionary (Unabridged, 2nd ed.) | Merriam-Webster | general | American | |
MWI3 | Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary (Unabridged) | Merriam-Webster | general | American | |
MWSM | Merriam-Webster’s Standard American Style Manual | Merriam-Webster | general | American | |
NHR | New Hart’s Rules | Oxford University Press | general use, publishing | British | www.oxforddictionaries.com > New Hart's Rules search filter |
NYT | New York Times Manual of Style and Usage | The New York Times | journalism | American | |
ODSWE | Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors | Oxford University Press | science writing, technical writing | British | |
ODWE | Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors | Oxford University Press | general | British | |
OED | Oxford English Dictionary | Oxford University Press | general | British | |
OSM | Oxford Style Manual (combines ODWE and a fuller predecessor of NHR) | Oxford University Press | general | British | |
S&W | Elements of Style (Strunk and White) | general | American | ||
TKE | The King's English (Fowler and Fowler) | grammar and usage | British | ||
Tur | A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian | general, especially academic papers | American | ||
URM | Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, now called the ICMJE recommendations | International Committee of Medical Journal Editors | scientific journals, especially life sciences and medical journals | International | |
WIT | Words into Type | Prentice Hall | general use, publishing | American |
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Cbe Style Citation
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Cbe Style Format
- CSE Citation Style – Quick Guide 7th Edition 1 This guide outlines how to cite some of the more common information sources in the Council of Science Editor’s (CSE) Style Name-Year system. For a comprehensive listing, please consult: Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, 7th edition.
- List of style guide abbreviations Jump to. Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, 6th edition, now called Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers: Council of Science Editors back when it was called the Council of Biology Editors.
Cse Cbe Style Manual
https://drugtree992.weebly.com/blog/2015-cannondale-synapse-carbon-disc-user-manual. Jul 01, 2019 The 6th and final edition of the Council of Biology Editors' (CBE) Scientific Style and Format book was published in 1994. After 2000, this citation style was renamed as CSE (Council of Science Editors). Be sure to always use the most current edition,. A fourth edition of the CBE (Council of Biology Editors) Style Manual is nearing completion and should be available later this year. It is being prepared for authors, editors, redactors, printers, and publishers of the literature of the biological and biomedical sciences.