This edition of the best-selling ASA Style Guide has updated guidelines for preparing manuscripts for electronic
submission, guidelines for electronic sources (with expanded examples),and an index. This edition also contains
conventions internal to the ASA, and a checklist for submission of manuscripts to ASA journals. The ASA Style Guide
aims to establish uniformity and consistency in style among ASA publications, to provide an authoritative reference
source on style issues for authors who are writing for ASA journals, and to summarize basic issues on effective
writing for authors in general.