Preface -- word about the fourth edition of the ASA Style Guide -- Chicago Manual of Style -- Other ASA resources -- New to the fourth edition -- ASA editorial style -- Style matters -- ASA style -- Some basics -- Plagiarism -- Clarity -- Bias -- Verbs -- Wordy phrases -- Common misusages -- Some mechanics of style -- Punctuation -- Commas -- Semicolons and colons -- Hyphens and dashes -- Em dashes -- En dashes -- Apostrophes -- Quotation marks -- Quoted material -- Parentheses and brackets -- Ellipses -- Spelling -- Capitalization -- Italics -- Numbers -- Dates -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Academic degrees -- Foreign words and language usage -- ASA-specific usages and conventions -- Hyphenation -- Capitalization -- Italics -- Preferred word usages -- Some ASA style guidelines --

Guidelines for organizing and presenting content -- Order and form of required pages -- Title page -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Text -- Subheadings -- Text citations, references, and bibliographies -- Text citations -- Reference lists -- Legal citations and government documents -- Legal citations -- Public documents in general -- Footnotes and endnotes -- Appendices -- Mathematical symbols and equations -- Tables, figures, and graphic materials -- Tables -- Figures, illustrations, and photographs -- General manuscript formats and style (non-ASA journals) -- Guidelines for using electronic resources (e-resources) -- Some key terms and definitions for electronic resources -- Internet -- Forms of electronic references -- E-books -- Online periodicals available in print and online form -- Online periodicals available in online form only -- Web sites -- Web log entries or comments -- E-mail messages -- Items in online database -- Data and supporting materials : machine readable data files (MRDF) -- Audiovisual materials -- CD-ROM or DVD-ROM -- Podcast -- PowerPoint presentation -- Other audiovisual materials --

Preparing and submitting a manuscript to an ASA journal -- Keyboarding specifications -- Page format -- Title page -- Submitting a manuscript -- Ethical guidelines -- Copyright -- Formatting a manuscript for publication -- Checklist for preparing and submitting a manuscript to an ASA journal -- Keyboarding the manuscript -- Checking the manuscript content -- Submitting the manuscript -- Interpreting copyeditors' notations -- References and other sources -- References -- Other sources -- Appendix: examples of reference list formats -- Books -- Chapters from books, articles from collected works -- Articles from journals -- Articles from newspapers and magazines -- Archival sources -- Government documents -- Dissertations and theses -- Unpublished papers -- Working and discussion papers -- Presented papers -- Machine-readable data files -- E-resources.