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Submitting Your Manuscript to an American Journal—7 American English Rules to Follow

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While referring to journal guidelines for the preparation of a manuscript, you may come across statements such as "Use American English throughout" or "Use spellings as given in the Oxford dictionary." These statements convey the journal's language specification—American English or British English.

What do you do next?

It is often difficult enough for a nonnative author to write a manuscript in English and focusing on another aspect—American or British English—can make it even more confusing. Submitting Your Manuscript to an American Journal—7 American English Rules to Follow will help you understand certain rules followed in American English. By applying these rules, you can ensure that your manuscript conforms to the journal's language specification.

After reading Submitting Your Manuscript to an American Journal—7 American English Rules to Follow, you will have learned

	what should be done if language specifications are not clear
	how to represent quotation marks
	how to punctuate the salutation in a letter
	how to represent dates
	how to read an American English dictionary
	some common spelling differences between American and British English
	how to set language in Microsoft Word
	how to run a spell check in Microsoft Word

Resources to help researchers in writing and publishing in English.