OGS - The Oxford Guide to Style

IN printing and publishing houses across the globe, Hart's Rules is a household word. First printed in 1893 for compositors and readers at Oxford University Press, this little book has grown to be indispensible to professionals, and widely useful to all others concerned with the business of putting words into print. Its advice on punctuation, capitalization, italics, hyphenation, abbreviations, foreign languages, and other details big and small has become the standard work in its field.

Having run through thirty-nine editions (the last in 1983), a new edition of Hart is now complete, which greatly expands and updates the range of information offered. This volume, called The Oxford Guide to Style (OGS), was published in February 2002 as ‘the Hart’s Rules for the 21st Century’. Like its companion volume ODWE, OGS is in a much enlarged format and is now well over 600 pages in length. It carries into the new century the treasurehouse of information that those who deal with the written word have depended upon for generations.

The readership is anyone who uses the English language professionally or in their studies—such as writers, editors, copy editors, proofreaders, journalists, technical writers, or anyone writing a thesis or other work for examination or publication. Similarly, it is invaluable for media studies, journalism, and publishing or printing courses at university or college, as well as for professional proofreading and editing courses.

Contents Hart's Rules for the 21st Century

The Parts of a Book
Preparation of Copy and Proofs
Abbreviations and Symbols
Capitalization and Treatment of Names
Punctuation
Italic, Roman, and Other Type Treatments
Numbers
Quotations
Lists and Tables
Illustrations
Languages
Science and Mathematics
Specialist Subjects
Copyright and Other Publishing Responsibilities
References and Notes
Indexing

633 pages, 234 × 156 mm (9.52 × 6.46 inches)
Hardback, ISBN 0-19-869175-0

UK Price:Ł16.99
US price: $25.00 (available April 2002)

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If you’d like to find out more about previous thirty-nine editions of this work, see the Previous Editions section. Further information on Horace Hart may be found here, as well as on Oxford University Press’s own ‘AskOxford’ website.