List of style guide abbreviations

This list of style guide abbreviations provides the meanings of the abbreviations that are commonly used as short ways to refer to major style guides. They are used especially by editors communicating with other editors in manuscript queries, proof queries, marginalia, emails, message boards, and so on.

Abbr.	Style guide	Author(s) or organization	Field/subject	Language(s)	Website
ACS	ACS style	American Chemical Society	Chemistry	American English	pubs.acs.org
ASG	Apple Style Guide	Apple Inc.	Corporate identity	American English	support.apple.com
AHD	The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	General	American English	ahdictionary.com
AMA	AMA Manual of Style	American Medical Association	Medicine, health care	American English	www.amamanualofstyle.com
AP	AP Stylebook	Associated Press	Journalism	American English	www.apstylebook.com
APA	APA style	American Psychological Association	Psychology, social sciences	American English	www.apastyle.org
BCE	Butcher’s Copy-editing	Cambridge University Press	General, publishing	British English
BSH	The Business Style Handbook	McGraw-Hill	Business	American English
CBE	Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, 6th edition (now called Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers)	Council of Science Editors (previously the Council of Biology Editors)	Science, especially life sciences	American English
CGEL	Cambridge Grammar of the English Language	Cambridge University Press	Grammar and usage	British English
CGEU	Cambridge Guide to English Usage	Cambridge University Press	Grammar and usage	British English
CMOS/CMS	The Chicago Manual of Style	University of Chicago Press	General, publishing	American English	www.chicagomanualofstyle.org
CSE	Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers	Council of Science Editors	Science, especially life sciences	American English
GMAU	Garner's Modern American Usage	Oxford University Press	Grammar and usage	American English
GPO	U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual	United States Government Publishing Office	Government publishing	American English	2016 edition
GRM	The Gregg Reference Manual	McGraw-Hill Higher Education	Business	American English, Canadian English	mhhe.com/business/buscom/gregg/
ISNAD	The ISNAD Citation Style	Sivas Cumhuriyet University - Abdullah Demir	General, publishing	Arabic, English, Persian, Turkish	www.isnadsistemi.org
ISO 690	ISO 690	International Organization for Standardization	General	American English	https://www.iso.org
IEEE	IEEE style	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers	Electrical engineering, electronics, computer engineering	American English
MAU	Modern American Usage (often called Follett's Modern American Usage)	Wilson Follett	Grammar and usage	American English
MEUB	Fowler’s Modern English Usage, Burchfield edition	Robert Burchfield	Grammar and usage	British English
MEUF	Fowler’s Modern English Usage, Fowler edition	H. W. Fowler	Grammar and usage	British English
MEUG	Fowler’s Modern English Usage, Gowers edition	Ernest Gowers	Grammar and usage	British English
MHRA	MHRA Style Guide	Modern Humanities Research Association	Humanities	British English
MLA	MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing/The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers	Modern Language Association	Humanities	American English	style.mla.org
MSTP	Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications	Microsoft	Technical writing	American English
MWC	Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary	Merriam-Webster	General	American English	unabridged.merriam-webster.com/collegiate
MWCD	Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary	Merriam-Webster	General	American English	unabridged.merriam-webster.com/collegiate
MWDS	Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Synonyms	Merriam-Webster	General	American English
MWDEU	Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage	Merriam-Webster	Grammar and usage	American English
MWEU	Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage	Merriam-Webster	Grammar and usage	American English
MWG	Merriam-Webster’s Guide to Punctuation and Style	Merriam-Webster	General	American English
MWM	Merriam-Webster’s Manual for Writers and Editors (2nd ed. of MWSM)	Merriam-Webster	General	American English
MWNI2	Merriam-Webster’s New International Dictionary (Unabridged, 2nd ed.)	Merriam-Webster	General	American English
MWI3	Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary (Unabridged)	Merriam-Webster	General	American English
MWSM	Merriam-Webster’s Standard American Style Manual	Merriam-Webster	General	American English
NHR	New Hart’s Rules	Oxford University Press	General, publishing	British English
NYT	New York Times Manual of Style and Usage	The New York Times	Journalism	American English
ODSWE	Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors	Oxford University Press	Science writing, technical writing	British English
ODWE	Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors	Oxford University Press	General	British English
OED	Oxford English Dictionary	Oxford University Press	General	British English
OSCOLA	Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities	Faculty of Law, University of Oxford	Law	British English	www.law.ox.ac.uk/oscola
OSM	Oxford Style Manual	Oxford University Press	General	British English
RILM	The RILM Manual of Style	Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale	Writing on music	American English
S&W	Elements of Style (Strunk & White)	William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White	General	American English
TKE	The King's English	H. W. Fowler and Francis George Fowler	Grammar and usage	British English
Turabian	A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations	Kate L. Turabian	General, especially academic papers	American English
URM	Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (now called the ICMJE recommendations)	International Committee of Medical Journal Editors	Scientific journals, especially life sciences and medical journals	International English
WIT	Words into Type	Prentice Hall	General, publishing	American English