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Corporate author / creator:American Sociological Association.
Edition:3rd ed.
Imprint:Washington, DC : American Sociological Association, c2007.
Description:xvi, 108 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Sociology -- Authorship -- Style manuals.
Authorship -- Style manuals.
Authorship.
Sociology -- Authorship.
Reference works.
Style manuals.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7530829
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Varying Form of Title:ASA style guide
American Sociological Association style guide
Other uniform titles:American Sociological Association. ASA style guide.
ISBN:9780912764306 9780912764309
0912764309
Notes:Previous eds. have title: ASA style guide.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-97).
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • A word about the third edition of the ASA Style Guide
  • The Chicago Manual of Style
  • Other ASA resources
  • New to this edition
  • Changes to the ASA Style Guide based on revisions of The Chicago Manual of Style
  • Other changes to the ASA Style Guide
  • 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
  • 4. Guidelines for organizing and presenting content
  • 4.1. Order and form of required pages
  • 4.1.1. Title page
  • 4.1.2. Abstract
  • 4.1.3. Text
  • 4.2. Subheadings
  • 4.3. Text citations, references, and bibliographies
  • 4.3.1. Text citations
  • 4.3.2. Reference lists
  • 4.4. Legal citations and government documents
  • 4.4.1. Legal citations
  • 4.4.2. Public documents in general
  • 4.5. Footnotes and endnotes
  • 4.6. Appendices
  • 4.7. Mathematical symbols and equations
  • 4.8. Tables, figures, and graphic materials
  • 4.8.1. Tables
  • 4.8.2. Figures
  • 4.8.3. Illustrations and photographs
  • 4.9. General manuscript formats and style (non-ASA journals)
  • 5. Guidelines for using electronic resources (e-resources)
  • 5.1. Some key terms and definitions for electronic resources
  • 5.2. The Internet
  • 5.3. Forms of electronic references
  • 5.3.1. E-books
  • 5.3.2. Online periodicals available in print and online form
  • 5.3.3. Online periodicals available in online form only
  • 5.3.4. Web sites
  • 5.3.5. Web log entries or comments
  • 5.3.6. E-mail messages
  • 5.3.7. Items in online database
  • 5.3.8. Data and supporting materials : machine readable data files (MRDF)
  • 5.4. Audiovisual materials
  • 5.4.1. CD-ROM or DVD-ROM
  • 5.4.2. Other audiovisual materials
  • 6. Preparing and submitting a manuscript to an ASA journal
  • 6.1. Keyboarding specifications
  • 6.1.1. Page format
  • 6.1.2. Title page
  • 6.2. Submitting a manuscript
  • 6.3. Ethical guidelines
  • 6.4. Copyright
  • 6.5. Formatting a manuscript for publication
  • 6.6. Checklist for preparing and submitting a manuscript to an ASA journal
  • 6.6.1. Keyboarding the manuscript
  • 6.6.2. Checking the manuscript content
  • 6.6.3. Submitting the manuscript
  • 7. Interpreting copyeditors' notations
  • 8. References and other sources
  • 8.1. References
  • 8.2. Other sources
  • Appendix
  • 1. Books
  • 2. Chapters from books, articles from collected works
  • 3. Articles from journals
  • 4. Articles from newspapers and magazines
  • 5. Archival sources
  • 6. Government documents
  • 7. Dissertations and theses
  • 8. Unpublished papers
  • 9. Working and discussion papers
  • 10. Presented papers
  • 11. Machine-readable data files
  • 12. E-resources.