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General Writing Guides
Elements of Style (Bartleby Library, Columbia University)
William Strunk, Jr., 1918 http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/
Grammar and Style Notes (Jack Lynch)
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/grammar.html
Guide to Grammar and Writing (Charles Darling, Professor of English/Humanities,CapitalCommunity-Technical College, Hartford, CT)
This site is a compendium of English grammar, usage, and writing information at the sentence, paragraph, and essay levels. Each section contains easily understood information about concepts related to the topic. This site has quizzes as well as a searchable index. http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/original.htm
Notes on Writing Papers and Theses (Ken Lertzman, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia)
Resources for Teachers (Online Writing Lab (Purdue U.))
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/lab/teachers/index.html
The King's English (Bartleby Library, Columbia University)
H. W. Fowler, 1908 http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/fowler/
Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide (Patrick J. Lynch, Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media)
http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/index.html
Specialty Writing Guides
Gramar, Punctuation, and Capitalization: A handbook for technical writers and editors (Mary K. McCaskill, Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virgina))
Note: Large PDF document. Requires Acrobat reader.
Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences (Raymon H. Mulford Library, Medical College of Ohio)
http://www.mco.edu/lib/instr/libinsta.html
World Wide Web (WWW) Server Standards and Guidelines (U.S. Department of Education)
Institutions and organizations needing to standardize their Web efforts might use this as a model for a style guide for online content. It provides an idea of the scope that is required -- covering such issues as navigation/organization and style/markup, and includes links to the guides of other agencies as well as to hypertext style guides from many sources. http://www.ed.gov/internal/wwwstds.html
Writing and Publishing Resources for Health Services and Public Health Practitioners (Compiled by Elizabeth Briskin with assistance from Laura Larsson.)
Information on authorship, copyright, and writing styles.

Style Manuals

A Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities (Version 2.1) (Melvin E. Page, East Tennessee State University)
http://www.nmmc.com/libweb/employee/citguide.htm
Bibliography Style Handbook (Writers' Workshop, UIUC)
This Handbook summarizes and illustrates the bibliographical formatting rules for three different citation styles: the American Psychological Association (APA) style, the new Modern Languages Association (MLA) style, and the old MLA style.
Chicago Manual of Style
The Bible of the publishing and research community. The Chicago Manual of Style Online is completely searchable and easy to use, providing quick answers to your style and editing questions. Content includes new coverage of journals and electronic publications, a comprehensive new chapter on American English grammar and usage, reorganized and updated chapters on documentation, plus guidance on citing electronic sources, and new diagrams of the editing and production processes for both books and journals.
Citing OMIM (OMIM)
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, OMIM (TM). Center for Medical Genetics, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) and National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, MD), 1999.
Electronic References (APA)
Excerpted from the new 5th edition of the Publication Manual
Guide to Citing Internet Sources (Phil Cross and Karen Towle)
Citation formats suggested here are based on the book by Xia Li & Nancy B. Crane: Electronic style: a guide to citing electronic information, 2nd ed., Mecklermedia, 1995; and the draft of ISO standard 690-2: Information and documentation: Bibliographic references: Electronic documents or parts thereof.
How to Cite ACP Journal Club (ACP-ASIM)
The citation styles reflect ACP Journal Club's new status as an independent publication, beginning with the November/December 1994 issue. Citation of material published in earlier issues should follow the citation guidelines published in those issues.
The Columbia Guide to Online Style (Columbia University Press)
Part 1 of The Columbia Guide to Online Style by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor (Columbia UP, 1998) presents a guide to locating, translating, and using the elements of citation for both a humanities style (i.e., MLA and Chicago) and a scientific style (APA and CBE) for electronically-accessed sources. The unique element approach used makes this a useful reference book for citing electronic sources regardless of the specific bibliographic style you may be required to use.
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors)
Sometimes referred to as the Vancouver Style. Updated May, 2000. http://www.icmje.org/
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (American College of Physicians Online, Annals of Internal Medicine, January 1997))
Sometimes referred to as the 'Vancouver Style". http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/01jan97/unifreqr.htm
Web Extension to American Psychological Association Style (WEAPAS)
http://www.beadsland.com/weapas/