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As style guides continue to expand, each edition bulkier than its predecessor, and as copy editors struggle to keep up, it is time to reconsider the role and utility of style guides.<\/p>\n

Ensuring that a document such as a research paper complies with the style guide provided by the journal is considered important. Punctuation, formatting, and other stylistic aspects are scrutinized by the copy editors. For example, whether space should be added\u00a0after a table title or certain words should be capitalized is dictated by the style guides.<\/p>\n

In the article titled “Style guides that refuse to go away<\/a>,”\u00a0published by Learned Publishing <\/em>of\u00a0The Association of Learned & Professional Society of Publishers<\/em>, the author questions the relevance and utility of the minutiae that style guides insist on. The author\u00a0considers “whether it is time to reconsider the role of style guides, especially the extent of style specifications”\u00a0and reconsider their utility in a world that is embracing\u00a0technology and accessing and consuming content in a way that differs vastly from the conventional methods.<\/p>\n

Citation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joshi, Yateendra. “Style guides that refuse to go away.”\u00a0Learned Publishing<\/em>\u00a026 no. 2 (2013):133.<\/p>\n

Read the<\/strong>\u00a0full pre-print article here<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As style guides continue to expand, each edition bulkier than its predecessor, and as copy editors struggle to keep up, it is time to reconsider the role and utility of style guides. Ensuring that a document such as a research paper complies with the style guide provided by the journal is considered important. 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