What’s New in the 16th Edition
- Comprehensive updates reflecting the latest style and usage, technology, and professional practice
- Expanded coverage of electronic publications, including procedures for proofreading web-based and other electronic documents
- Electronic-editing checklist for editors and writers
- Expanded section on bias-free language
- Expanded coverage of fair use and electronic rights, including an overview of the NIH Public Access Policy
- New section on parallel structure
- New and improved hyphenation guide, presented in an easy-to-use tabular format
- An introduction to Unicode, the international computing standard for letters and symbols required by the world’s languages, including tables with Unicode numbers
- More references to organizations that publish their own guidelines and standards online
- Newly uniform stylistic treatment of elements in the two major systems of documentation
- Updated advice on DOIs versus URLs, including more examples
- More tips for citing blogs, podcasts, and other electronic sources
- Streamlined advice on citing legal and public documents
- Thoroughly revised coverage of production processes, including an overview of electronic markup and XML
- An updated glossary that includes more terms related to electronic publishing
- Expanded headings on numbered paragraphs and more cross-references for ease of navigation, especially online
- A logical and intuitive reorganization by chapter and paragraph that brings together closely related concepts wherever possible, to help readers find what they’re looking for
- Firmer rules and clearer recommendations, to help authors and editors make the right choices
- First-ever simultaneous publication of print and online editions, to give all users access to full-text searches of the new edition and other online tools