Provides information on manuscript preparation, punctuation, spelling, quotations, captions, tables, abbreviations, references, bibliographies, notes, and indexes, with sections on journals and electronic media.

The publishing process --Books and journals -- Overview -- The parts of a book -- The parts of a journal -- Considerations for web-based publications -- Manuscript preparation, manuscript editing, and proofreading -- Overview and process outline -- Manuscript preparation guidelines for authors -- Manuscript editing -- Proofreading -- Illustrations and tables -- Overview -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Rights, permissions, and copyright administration / by / William S. Strong -- Overview -- Copyright law and the licensing of rights -- The publishing agreement -- Subsidiary rights and permissions -- The author's responsibilities -- Style and usage -- Grammar and usage / by / Bryan A. Garner -- Grammar -- Word usage -- Punctuation -- Overview -- Punctuation in relation to surrounding text -- Periods -- Commas -- Semicolons -- Colons -- Question marks -- Exclamation points -- Hyphens and dashes -- Parentheses -- Brackets and braces -- Slashes -- Quotation marks -- Apostrophes -- Multiple punctuation marks -- Lists and outline style -- Spelling, distinctive treatment of words, and compounds -- Overview -- Plurals -- Possessives -- Contractions and interjections -- Word division -- A and an, o and oh -- Ligatures -- Italics, capitals, and quotation marks -- Compounds and hyphenation -- Names and terms -- Overview -- Personal names -- Titles and offices -- Epithets, kinship names, and personifications -- Ethnic, socioeconomic, and other groups -- Names of places -- Words derived from proper names -- Names of organizations -- Historical and cultural terms -- Calendar and time designations -- Religious names and terms -- Military terms -- Names of ships and other vehicles -- Scientific terminology -- Brand names and trademarks -- Titles of works -- Signs and mottoes -- Numbers -- Overview -- Numerals versus words -- Plurals and punctuation of numbers -- Inclusive numbers -- Roman numerals -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- Names and titles -- Geographical terms -- Designations of time -- Scholarly abbreviations -- Biblical abbreviations -- Technology and science -- Business and commerce -- Foreign languages -- Overview -- Titles and other proper names -- Languages using the Latin alphabet -- Languages usually transliterated (or romanized) -- Classical Greek -- Old English and middle English -- American sign language -- Mathematics in type -- Overview -- Style of mathematical expressions -- Preparation and editing of paper manuscripts -- Quotations and dialogue -- Overview -- Permissible changes to quotations -- Quotations in relation to text -- Quotation marks -- Ellipses -- Interpolations and clarifications -- Citing sources in text -- Foreign-language quotations -- Documentation -- Documentation I: notes and bibliography -- Source citations: an overview -- Notes and bibliography: basic format, with examples and variations -- Notes -- Bibliographies -- Books -- Periodicals -- Interviews and personal communications -- Unpublished and informally published material -- Special types of references -- Audiovisual materials -- Legal and public documents -- Documentation II: author-date references -- Overview -- Author-date references: basic format, with examples and variations -- Reference lists and text citations -- Author-date references: special cases -- Indexes -- Overview -- Components of an index -- General principles of indexing -- Indexing proper names and variants -- Indexing titles of publications and other works -- Alphabetizing -- Punctuating indexes: a summary -- The mechanics of indexing -- Editing an index compiled by someone else -- Typographical considerations for indexes -- Examples of indexes -- Appendix A: production and digital technology -- Overview -- Markup -- Design -- The electronic workflow -- Options for presenting content -- Print technologies -- Appendix B: glossary.