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This inspiration for this list comes from the blog entry, Cook up a Style Guide. The style guides are sorted into three categories. Let us know if about any others.

• Academy and other Style Guides
• Web Design, Web Site and Geek Style Guides
• Writing Style and Media Guides

Academic and other Style Guides

• AAA (American Anthropological Association) relies on two to create its own AAA Style Guide
• American Institute of Physics
• AMA Style Guide from University of Washington that lists the most frequently used entries. Medical professionals tend to rely on this one
• APA Style Guide is a popular style guide especially with colleges and universities
• APA Research Style Crib Sheet
• Carnegie Mellon Writer’s Style Guide
• Columbia Guide to Online Style
• Introduction to Basic Legal Citation
• MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association)
• Ohio State University (based on Chicago Manual of Style)
• OSU Turabian Citation Guide
• University of California at Irvine
• University of Colorado at Boulder Style Guide

Web Design, Web Site and Geek Style Guides

• A List Apart
• Apple Publications Style Guide (pdf file)
• Dojo Style Guide
• IEEE Computer Society Style Guide
• IEEE Standards Style Manual
• Jargon File, the online version of The New Hacker’s Dictionary
• Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications or Microsoft Computer Dictionary
• Mozilla Coding Style Guide
• New York Public Library’s NYPL:Style Guide for web sites
• Python Style Guide
• W3C Style Guide for Online Hypertext
• Web Design Group Style Guide for Online Hypertext (Largely taken from W3C’s guide)
• Web 2.0 How-to Design Guide
• Web Style Guide for web sites
• Wikipedia Manual of Style
• Writing for Multimedia’s Terminology

Writing Style and Media Guides

• AP Style Guide
• BBC News Style Guide for radio
• Chicago Manual of Style
• Economist Style Guide
• Dictionary.com Style Guide
• GuardianUnlimited Style Guide is for writers and editors
• Guide to Grammar and Style by Jack Lynch
• Guide to Citation Style Guides
• Strunk & White’s Elements of Style