The Oxford style manual/
edited and compiled by R M Ritter
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003
- xvii, 1033 p.
Combines two books previously published separately as: The Oxford dictionary for writers and editors : OUP, 2000, and The Oxford guide to style, OUP, 2002.
Comprehensive single volume for authors that covers everything from the parts of a book through punctuation, proofreading, manuscript preparation, to indexing. The second part is a dictionary intended specifically for writers, it includes names, abbreviations, foreign words, distinctions and word confusions.