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Writing Guides

Style Guides

For print publications

• The Johns Hopkins University Style Guide
  Formatting guidelines from the JHU Office of Communications
• APA Style Sheet
  Summary of rules from the APA Publication Manual
• MLA-Style Citation Format for Electronic Resources
  How to cite Web sites, e-mail, ftp archives, and more; from Purdue.
• Bartleby.com
  Full text of the classic writing guides, such as Elements of Style and The King's English, and other resources. For HTML documents
• Web Style Manual
  Design principles from the Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media.

Dictionaries

• Oxford English Dictionary (OED) (JHU Only)
  The Oxford English Dictionary is a historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day.
• Dictionaries
  A list of 100+ dictionaries and other language resources. You can search the Webster Dictionary--Hypertext Edition, an acronym dictionary, and the English-to-French (or Spanish) and French (or Spanish)-to-English dictionaries.

Thesauri and Quotations

• Thesauri and Quotations
  List includes Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and Roget's Thesaurus, among others.

Resources for Writers

• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
  Access limited to Johns Hopkins users.
• MEDLINE Journals With Links to Publisher Web Sites
  This is a list of the journals in MEDLINE for which publishers have provided links to their journal Web sites. Maintained by the National Library of Medicine.
• List of Serials Indexed for Online Users
  Abbreviations of journal titles, full titles matched to abbreviations, and full bibliographic information for any journal indexed by the National Library of Medicine.
• Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors
  This extensive list including a wide range of resources (Rutgers University).

Online Writing Labs and Handbooks

• On-Line Writing Lab
  Extensive handouts and exercises (Purdue University)

Bibliographic Software

Most vendors allow you to download a free demo and provide technical support for their product, and most offer Macintosh, Windows, and DOS versions:

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• ProCite
• Papyrus

Welch offers 2-hour classes on using Reference Manager or EndNote. See class listings for times and descriptions.

Updated 3/22/2008