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Corporate author / creator: | American Sociological Association. |
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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 |
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.