Authorities

Depending on whether we are working for a British, American or Canadian client, we use the following dictionaries:

• Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition, Thomas Allen & Son Limited, 1993
• Canadian Oxford Dictionary: The Foremost Authority on Current Canadian English, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2004
• Essential Canadian English Dictionary & Thesaurus, 1st Edition, HarperCollins Publishers, 2004
• Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, 1st Edition, Pearson ESL, 2003

For references on grammar, we use:

• The Elements of Grammar - Margaret Shertzer, Macmilan Publishing Company, 1986
• Webster's New World English Grammar Handbook, Hungry Minds, Inc., 2001
• "Grammar Smart", 2nd Edition, Princeton Review, 2001

For references on style, we use:

• The Elements of Style, 4th Edition, William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White, Allyn and Bacon, 2000
• The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition, University of Chicago Press, 2003
• Job-specific style sheets - from your organization or your publisher

For specialty fields, we use the following dictionaries:

• Webster's New World Medical Dictionary, 2nd Edition, Webster's New World, 2003
• Webster's New World Dictionary of Computer Terms, 8th Edition, Wiley Publishing, 2000
• Dictionary of Chemistry, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2003
• A Dictionary of Physics, 4th Rep. Edition, Oxford University Press, 2003
• Abbreviations Dictionary, Augmented International Seventh Edition, Elsevier, 1986