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* 1. What style guide encourages the use of the serial comma as it’s used in the following sentence?

Last night I ate a salad, soup, and chocolate ice cream.

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* 2. In what style guide does the following passage appear?

“Use the active voice.
The active voice is usually more direct and vigorous than the passive:
I shall always remember my first visit to Boston.
This is much better than: 
My first visit to Boston will always be remembered by me.”

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* 3. In what style guide does the following passage appear?

“Use sentence case for all titles (capitalize only the first word of the title). Abbreviate and italicize names of journals according to the listing in the National Library of Medicine database.”

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* 4. In what style guide does the following passage appear?

“Books published by the author should be cited according to information available on the title page or copyright page. In place of publisher, including language such as ‘self-published’ (abbreviated as ‘self-pub’ in notes, but not a bibliography) or ‘printed by the author’ is usually appropriate. For self-published e-books, add the name of the application or device required to read the book or the name of the file format, or both.”

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* 5. In what style guide does the following passage appear?

“For dates and years, use figures. Do not use st, nd, rd, or th with dates, and use Arabic figures. Always capitalize months. Spell out the month unless it is used with a date. When used with a date, abbreviate only the following months: Jan., Feb., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov. and Dec.”

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* 6. In what style guide does the following passage appear?

“While you should always be clear about the sex identity of your participants (if you conducted an experiment), so that gender differences are obvious, you should not use gender terms when they aren't necessary. In other words, you should not use ‘he,’ ‘his’ or ‘men’ as generic terms applying to both sexes.”

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* 7. In what government-sanctioned style guide does the following passage appear?

“In general, acronyms are not preceded by the definite article:
The members of NATO rejected the idea.
NAFTA may be expanded to Chile and other South American countries.”

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* 8. In what style guide does the following passage appear?

“Page numbers are always required, but additional citation information can help literary scholars, who may have a different edition of a classic work like Marx and Engels' The Communist Manifesto. In such cases, give the page number of your edition (making sure the edition is listed in your Works Cited page, of course) followed by a semicolon, and then the appropriate abbreviations for volume (vol.), book (bk.), part (pt.), chapter (ch.), section (sec.), or paragraph (par.).

For example: Marx and Engels described human history as marked by class struggles (79; ch. 1).”

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* 9. In what technology company’s style guide does the following passage appear?

“While the Third edition maintained the hyphen in e-mail and the status of Web as a proper noun in Web site, the ubiquity of these terms in our daily lives has accelerated the adoption of the more streamlined email and website. And of course, many new terms and concepts have emerged since 2004, such as app, cloud, and sync, and many popular new acronyms too, such as IM, PC, NUI, and SEO.”

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* 10. In what style guide does the following passage appear?

“Do not break sentences in two. In other words, do not use periods for commas.”

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