As yet, most of the standard, comprehensive guides to style, documentation, and editing are not available online. Links to some of these sites are provided, but the writer should use them knowing that most of these sites are neither developed nor sponsored by these authoritative bodies themselves. Style Guides Grammar Reviews Dictionaries and Thesauri Style Guides Style guides guide the writer in a variety of matters relating to the formatting of documents, including citation and bibliographic entry practice, and in such technical aspects of writing as grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, abbreviation, etc.
Stylistic preferences change over time and from one publishing environment to another.
The Turabian volume offers a general discussion of these topics, while the MLA, APA, and science style guides will serve respectively for documenting work in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association, 1999. A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources by A. Harnack and E. Kleppinger. A Handbook for Citing Electronic Information . Using APA Style to Cite and Document Sources .