| Preface | xix |
| Part I | Manuscript | 1 |
| Technicalities of Form | 3 |
| Physical Form | 3 |
| Final Reading of the Manuscript | 8 |
| Author's Alterations | 9 |
| Editorial Marks | 10 |
| Style | 12 |
| Topical Heads | 14 |
| Excerpts | 17 |
| Footnotes | 22 |
| Tables | 32 |
| Bibliographies | 37 |
| Illustrations | 43 |
| Special Responsibilities of the Book Writer | 45 |
| Front Matter | 46 |
| Back Matter | 48 |
| Legal Areas of Particular Concern to the Author | 48 |
| The Copyright Law | 48 |
| Libel | 52 |
| The Right of Privacy | 54 |
| Part II | Copy and Proof | 55 |
| Workers on Copy and Proof | 57 |
| The Editor | 57 |
| Editor or Copy Editor | 57 |
| The Production Department | 61 |
| Layout | 61 |
| Front Matter | 62 |
| Back Matter | 68 |
| Work on Proof | 69 |
| Galley Proofs | 70 |
| Page Proofs | 74 |
| Indexes | 76 |
| Indexes by Names | 77 |
| Compiling a Dictionary-Style Index | 79 |
| Alphabetical Order | 90 |
| Typography of Indexes | 93 |
| Part III | Copy-Editing Style | 97 |
| Style | 99 |
| Abbreviations | 100 |
| Symbols and Signs | 120 |
| Numbers | 125 |
| Italics | 136 |
| Capitalization | 142 |
| Capitals to Mark Beginnings | 142 |
| Titles, Headings, Legends | 146 |
| Proper Nouns and Adjectives | 148 |
| Punctuation | 172 |
| Semicolon | 182 |
| Comma | 184 |
| Em Dash | 206 |
| En Dash | 210 |
| Two-Em Dash | 211 |
| Parentheses | 211 |
| Brackets | 212 |
| Quotation Marks | 213 |
| Apostrophe | 222 |
| Hyphen | 223 |
| Points of Ellipsis | 225 |
| Compound Words | 226 |
| Division of Words | 237 |
| Part IV | Typographical Style | 241 |
| Elements of Typographical Style | 243 |
| Leading | 243 |
| Spacing | 244 |
| Indention | 246 |
| Problems of Typographical Style | 247 |
| Headings | 247 |
| Initials | 250 |
| Synopses | 252 |
| Epigraphical Quotations | 253 |
| Excerpts | 253 |
| Footnotes | 254 |
| Tables | 255 |
| Number columns | 257 |
| Tables without figures | 258 |
| Ditto marks | 258 |
| Captions | 258 |
| Column heads or boxheads | 259 |
| Captions and Legends | 263 |
| Bibliographies | 266 |
| Details of Page Makeup | 269 |
| Typography of Various Forms | 274 |
| Fiction | 274 |
| Poetry | 275 |
| Plays | 276 |
| Writings on Religion | 279 |
| Letters | 280 |
| Legal Writing | 281 |
| Mathematical and Scientific Writing | 283 |
| Composition of Foreign Languages | 288 |
| Danish | 288 |
| Dutch | 289 |
| French | 289 |
| German | 299 |
| Classic Greek | 307 |
| Hebrew | 310 |
| Italian | 316 |
| Latin | 318 |
| Norwegian | 320 |
| Polish | 320 |
| Portuguese | 321 |
| Russian | 321 |
| Spanish | 327 |
| Swedish | 334 |
| Phonetics | 334 |
| Part V | Grammar | 339 |
| Verbs | 341 |
| Voice | 341 |
| Mood | 342 |
| Tense | 344 |
| Auxiliaries | 347 |
| Agreement | 349 |
| Nouns | 357 |
| Number | 357 |
| Possessive Case | 358 |
| Pronouns | 361 |
| Case | 361 |
| Antecedents | 362 |
| Adjectives and Adverbs | 368 |
| Articles | 372 |
| Indefinite Articles | 372 |
| Definite Article | 373 |
| Conjunctions | 374 |
| Coordinating Conjunctions | 374 |
| Subordinating Conjunctions | 376 |
| Correlative Conjunctions | 380 |
| Prepositions | 381 |
| Sentence Structure | 384 |
| Position of Modifiers | 385 |
| Omissions | 389 |
| Glossary of Grammatical Terms | 391 |
| Part VI | Use of Words | 405 |
| Wordiness | 407 |
| Trite Expressions | 411 |
| Appropriateness | 415 |
| The Right Preposition | 432 |
| Words Likely to be Misused or Confused | 446 |
| Spelling | 469 |
| The "EI" or "IE" Difficulty | 469 |
| Forming Derivatives by Adding Suffixes | 470 |
| Troublesome Suffixes | 472 |
| Formation of Plurals | 473 |
| Formation of the Possessive Case | 478 |
| Ordinary Words that Cause Troble | 481 |
| Foreign Words and Phrases | 481 |
| Bibliography for Parts V and VI | 487 |
| Book Publishers | 488 |
| Part VII | Typography and Illustration | 489 |
| The Size of the Book | 491 |
| Casting Off | 491 |
| Trim Size | 493 |
| Type Page | 494 |
| The Mechanics of Composition | 496 |
| Hot Metal Composition | 496 |
| Type | 497 |
| Type Measurement | 501 |
| Classification of Typefaces | 504 |
| Choice of Size and Face | 506 |
| Computing the Length in Type | 509 |
| Typesetting | 511 |
| Cold Type Composition | 511 |
| Photocomposition or Phototypesetting | 514 |
| Sample Pages | 516 |
| Proofs | 517 |
| The Mechanics of Printing | 518 |
| Letterpress | 518 |
| Offset Lithography or Photo-Offset | 519 |
| Illustrations | 520 |
| Paper | 524 |
| Book Sizes | 530 |
| Binding | 530 |
| Bibliography | 532 |
| Glossary of Printing and Allied Terms | 535 |
| Index | 549 |
