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
AMA[1]	AMA Manual of Style	American Medical Association	Medicine, health care	American English	www.amamanualofstyle.com
AP[1]	AP Stylebook	Associated Press	Journalism	American English	www.apstylebook.com
APA[2]	APA style	American Psychological Association	Psychology, social sciences	American English	apastyle.apa.org
CBE[3]	Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, 6th edition[a]	Council of Biology Editors	Science, especially life sciences	American English
CGEL[4]	Cambridge Grammar of the English Language	Cambridge University Press	Grammar and usage	British English
CGEU[5]	Cambridge Guide to English Usage	Cambridge University Press	Grammar and usage	British English
Chicago[6]	The Chicago Manual of Style	University of Chicago Press	General, publishing	American English	www.chicagomanualofstyle.org
CMOS[1]
CMS[7]
CSE[8]	Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers	Council of Science Editors	Science, especially life sciences	American English
GMAU[9]	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[10]	The Gregg Reference Manual	McGraw-Hill Higher Education	Business	American English, Canadian English
ISNAD	The ISNAD Citation Style	Sivas Cumhuriyet University - Abdullah Demir	General, publishing	Arabic, English, Persian, Turkish	www.isnadsistemi.org
ISO 690	ISO 690[b]	International Organization for Standardization	General	American English	ISO 690:2021
IEEE[1]	Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers Style (IEEE style)	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers	Electrical engineering, electronics, computer engineering	American English
MHRA[12]	MHRA Style Guide	Modern Humanities Research Association	Humanities	British English
MLA[6]	MLA Handbook MLA Style Manual	Modern Language Association	Humanities	American English[c]	style.mla.org
MSTP[14]	Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications	Microsoft	Technical writing	American English
MWDEU[15]	Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage	Merriam-Webster	Grammar and usage	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[16]	Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors	Oxford University Press	General	British English
OED[17]	Oxford English Dictionary	Oxford University Press	General	British English
OSCOLA[18]	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
Turabian[19]	A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations	Kate L. Turabian	General, especially academic papers	American English
URMs[20]	Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals[d]	International Committee of Medical Journal Editors	Scientific journals, especially life sciences and medical journals	International English

Notes

1. Now called the Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers.
2. Titled: Information and documentation — Guidelines for bibliographic references and citations to information resources^[11]
3. A Spanish translation of the 9th edition of the MLA Handbook is set to be released in Spring 2025.^[13]
4. Now called the ICMJE recommendations.