American Sociological Association style guide

https://my.asanet.org/Store https://www.amazon.ca/stores/American-Sociological-Association/author/B08B7WR1X1 The seventh edition of the ASA Style Guide features guidelines for the most common situations encountered by authors and editors in the ASA journal publication process. It is designed to serve as the authoritative reference for writing, submitting, editing, and copyediting manuscripts for journals and other materials using or requiring ASA style. While the structure of this edition is consistent with past editions, some changes have been made to the content. All links and reference sources have been updated or verified for accuracy. This edition also updates ASA policy on the use of the singular "they" as a generic pronoun, and includes new preferred terminology and capitalization for race/ethnicity. Title Copyright About the ASA Contents Preface A Word about the Seventh Edition of the ASA Style Guide The Chicago Manual of Style New in the Seventh Edition 1 ASA Editorial Style 1.1 ASA Style 1.1.1 Some Basics 1.1.2 Plagiarism 1.1.3 Clarity 1.1.4 Bias 1.1.5 Verbs 1.1.6 Wordy Phrases 1.1.7 Common Misusages 2 Some Mechanics of Style 2.1 Punctuation 2.1.1 Commas 2.1.2 Semicolons and Colons 2.1.3 Hyphens and Dashes 2.1.4 Em Dashes 2.1.5 En Dashes 2.1.6 Apostrophes 2.1.7 Quotation Marks 2.1.8 Quoted Material 2.1.9 Parentheses and Brackets 2.1.10 Ellipses 2.2 Spelling 2.3 Capitalization 2.4 Italics 2.5 Numbers 2.6 Dates 2.7 Abbreviations and Acronyms 2.8 Academic Degrees 2.9 Non-English-Language Usage 3 ASA-Specific Usages and Conventions 3.1 Hyphenation 3.2 Capitalization 3.3 Italics 3.4 Preferred Word Usages 3.5 Some ASA Style Guidelines 4 Guidelines for Organizing and Presenting Content 4.1 Order and Form of Required Pages 4.1.1 Title Page 4.1.2 Abstract 4.1.3 Key Words 4.1.4 Text 4.2 Subheadings 4.3 Text Citations, References, and Bibliographies 4.3.1 Text Citations 4.3.2 Reference Lists 4.3.2.1 Books, Book Chapters, and Journal Articles 4.3.2.2 Other Types of Reference Material 4.4 Legal Citations and Government Documents 4.4.1 Legal Citations 4.4.2 Public Documents in General 4.5 Footnotes and Endnotes 4.6 Appendixes 4.7 Mathematical Symbols and Equations 4.7.1 Statistics 4.8 Tables, Figures, and Graphic Materials 4.8.1 Tables 4.8.2 Figures, Illustrations, and Photographs 4.9 General Manuscript Formats and Style (Non-ASA Journals) 5 Guidelines for Using Electronic Resources 5.1 General Guidelines for Consulting and Citing Online Sources 5.2 Forms of Electronic References 5.2.1 E-books 5.2.2 Periodicals available in online form 5.2.3 Websites 5.2.4 Blog entries or comments 5.2.5 Email, text messages 5.2.6 Social media sources 5.2.7 Online databases 5.2.8 Data supporting materials: Machine-Readable Data Files (MRDF) 5.2.9 CD-ROM or DVD-ROM 5.2.10 Podcast 5.2.11 Videos 5.2.12 Other Audiovisual Materials 5.3 Some Key Terms and Definitions for Electronic Resources 6 Preparing and Submitting a Manuscript to an ASA Journal 6.1 Ethical Guidelines 6.2 Copyright 6.2.1 Contributors’ Rights 6.3 Contributors’ Responsibilities 6.4 Manuscript Specifications 6.4.1 Manuscript Format 6.4.2 Title Page 6.5 Submitting a Manuscript 6.5.1 Electronic Submission Requirements 6.6 Formatting a Manuscript for Submission 6.7 Checklist for Preparing and Submitting a Manuscript to an ASA Journal 6.7.1 Manuscript Specifications 6.7.2 Manuscript Content 6.7.3 Submitting the Manuscript 7 Interpreting Copy Editors’ Notations Changes to Text Type Specifications Punctuation 8 References and Other Sources 8.1 References 8.2 Other Sources Appendix Reference List Formats: Some Examples 1. Books 2. Chapters from Books 3. Periodicals: Journal Articles 4. Periodicals: Magazine and Newspaper Articles 5. Archival Sources/Manuscript Collections 6. Government Documents 7. Dissertations and Theses 8. Unpublished Papers 9. Working and Discussion Papers 10. Paper Presentations, Poster Sessions, PowerPoint Slides 11. Machine-Readable Data Files 12. Electronic Resources Index "The ASA Style Guide, 7th edition, is the authoritative reference for writing, submitting, editing, and copyediting manuscripts for ASA journals and other publications following ASA's unique format. The ASA Style Guide is intended primarily as a reference for authors who are submitting articles to ASA journals. However, it has been adapted for a range of other purposes, including as a teaching tool. Sociology departments have widely adopted it as a guide for the preparation of theses, dissertations, and other types of research papers. It is also used by professional writers and publishers of scholarly materials on sociological or social science issues more generally. The material in this guide can be applied easily across multiple contexts. This edition of the ASA Style Guide incorporated feedback from editors, managing editors, copy editors, authors, and other scholars regarding what they observed to be challenges in manuscripts they have received or submitted to ASA publications. We greatly appreciate their contributions to this edition."-- Provided by publisher The seventh edition of the ASA Style Guide features guidelines for the most common situations encountered by authors and editors in the ASA journal publication process. It is designed to serve as the authoritative reference for writing, submitting, editing, and copyediting manuscripts for journals and other materials using or requiring ASA style.While the structure of this edition is consistent with past editions, some changes have been made to the content. All links and reference sources have been updated or veried for accuracy. This edition also updates ASA policy on the use of the singular "they" as a generic pronoun, and includes new preferred terminology and capitalization for race/ethnicity.