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A Brief Guide to Document Style

The University of Oxford Style Guide is excellent and is my recommended first reference. It is silent on a few points so I have these suggestions:

Making these choices once allows the writer to concentrate on the substance of the work rather than the flummery. Of course any style guide is exactly that a guide. In making these choices I have mostly followed

  • University Press, The Chicago Manual of Style, University of Chicago Press, 2010,
  • R. M. Ritter, The Oxford Style Manual, Oxford University Press, 2003,
  • New Zealand Government Printing Office, Style Book, Government Printer, 1981.
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