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Line 42: When working on articles, it is important to remember that [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, textbook, or scientific journal\|Wikipedia is not a journal]] and must not be written like one, but for a general audience. As with ''Chicago'' and ''Hart's'', these style guides vary from primary through tertiary in source type. They are primary sources for their organization-specific citation styles, but often tertiary for general and field-specific writing advice, being based on the norms of journal editors as expressed in journal- or publisher-specific stylesheets. A related teritiary source is an expert-compiled [[encyclopedic dictionary]] for a particular field, often scientific. While these mostly consist of highly compressed encyclopedic entries, they may offer reliable style advice on particular things, such as the proper capitalization of a symbol for a unit of measure, how to abbreviate "subspecies" in zoology versus botany, etc. == For Englishes around the [[anglosphere]] ==

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