Dr. Abel Scribe's Guide to ASA Sociology Style and Format

The ASA Style Guide provides instructions for authors preparing research papers for review and publication. The Writer's Guide to ASA Style follows the ASA Style Guide as closely as possible, but also reflects features of the style as published in the American Sociological Review. The result is a research style that readers familiar with ASA publications will find eminently appropriate and correct in class papers.

The ASA Style Manual may or may not be available at Amazon.com (click on the image to open a window at Amazon.com).

The Writer's Guide is an electronic style guides that navigates much like a web site, but with added indexing and search capabilities. It works with a reader already installed with the Windows® operating system.

Version 2.0! The old Student Guide has been revamped and updated to become the new Writer's Guide to ASA Style. The guide has been reorganized and an expanded section on punctuation has been added. This is the best edition yet.

Download: Writer's Guide to ASA Style 2.0 (Windows 575KB)

The ASA Writer's Guide was revised and updated in November 2004.

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American Sociological Association. The American Sociological Association Style Guide.: 2nd ed. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association, 1997. 40 pp. About $10.

The ASA Guide is more a pamphlet than a book. But it still covers the essential features of ASA style. This style is widely followed in sociology, although some features are also widely ignored (as documented in the Writer's Guide) . The little book devotes a lot of space on wordy phrases to avoid in research writing. This has apparently been effective. Papers published in the American Sociological Review reflect a crisp style that may be the best in research writing. This guide is also available at the ASA website at discount prices.

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Endnote (Bibliographies Made Easy?). Version XI. 2007. ISI Research Soft. Windows and Mac.

Amazon Student Versions $95: [Windows] [Mac].

Endnote automatically formats references for you--in standard AMA, APA, CBE, Chicago, ICMJE, and MLA styles, as well as a vast number of journal styles (over 1000). It is the standard of bibliographic software, required at many top universities. Surf for sources online; download bibliographic material from any online database or library catalog. The program comes with templates (for MSWord) that will set up your word processor for you! Endnote is your personal research assistant.

Warning! Reviews of recent versions are poor! Older editions, versions 6 or 7, may be a better buy. These may be availabe at amazon, used.

A free 30-day trial version is available at the Endnote website.

Taylor, Barry N. 1995. Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI).: Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Special Publication 811. 80 pp. http://physics.nist.gov/Document/sp811.pdf

Free Style Guide for Numbers. The NIST is the official representative of the United States before the Convention du Metre which in turn is the body that defines the International System of Units (SI) for the world scientific community. A free 80 page style guide is available from their website. This link (click on the title above) is directly to the document which is in Adobe PDF format. To download rather than display the document click the right mouse button on the link and select "Save Target As."

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