Style guides

[geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA]

 Barb Philbrick wondered <<Has anyone successfully
 created a usable style guide that says something like, "We
 use the CMoS and The Handbook of Technical Writing as our
 base sources. Any deviations from these sources are
 documented in this style guide."?>>

 That's pretty much exactly what our style guide says. We
 spent several hours consulting with our in-house writers to
 find out what sort of questions they wanted answered, then
 added in a list of the daily recurring errors that I fix as
 the house editor. So there's lots of info on our review
 process, how an abstract differs from a summary, how to do
 literature citations, the length restrictions and content
 requirements for each report series, and a few shortcuts in
 AmiPro that make everyone's life easier. For most words, we
 refer to Websters; for obscure points of style, we use
 Chicago or the Canadian Forest Service style guide; for
 tree names, we use Hosie; etc.

 --Geoff Hart     @8^{)}     geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
 Disclaimer: Speaking for myself, not FERIC.

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