Hart's Rules
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Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford is a reference book and style guide first published in 1893.
Written by Horace Hart, then Controller of the University Press, it was originally intended as an in-house style guide for the staff of Oxford University Press, but soon gained wider use as a source for authoritative instructions on typesetting style, grammar, punctuation and usage.
In February 2002, Oxford University Press published a new edition (the fortieth) of Hart's Rules under the title The Oxford Guide to Style, with the marketing slogan "Hart's Rules for the 21st Century".
The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors is a companion volume intended for the general writer rather than the typesetter. It was originally written as the Authors’ and Printers’ Dictionary by Frederick Howard Collins in 1905, and renamed in 1983.
Hart's Rules may be regarded as the UK equivalent of the US works The Elements of Style ("Strunk & White") and The Chicago Manual of Style.
New Hart's Rules (adapted from The Oxford Guide to Style) was published by Oxford University Press in September 2005.
