Table of Contents
Foreword, by Carol Fisher Saller 1 “It’s not so much an issue of correctness as of ickiness” Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms Compounds Numbers Plurals Possessives and Attributives Words and Letters
2 “‘President of the Mess Hall’ is going to look pretty silly” Proper Nouns Titles of Works
3 “Three people have three strong opinions about commas . . .” Commas Hyphens Vertical Lists and Bullets Other Dots, Dashes, and Squiggles
4 “Can fewest mean zero?” Use or Abuse? Restriction Gender Benders Prepositions Pronouns Grammatical or Not? 5 “If you give birth to a source and he’s still living under your roof . . .” How Do You Cite . . . ? Notes Bibliographies What if . . . ? Quotations and Dialogue 6 “Holy metaphysicswe aren’t that fancy” Authors, Titles, and Metadata Formatting Illustrations Permissions, Credits, and Practical Issues Indexing Using a Style Manual 7 “Aaagh!” to “argh!” to “aahhh!” Alphabetizing In the Weeds of Editing Special Characters URLs You Could Look It Up Things That Freak Us Out Index