New Oxford style manual (3rd edition)

The New Oxford Style Manual is a combination of the latest editions of two key works for wordsmiths – professional or amateur. These two volumes – New Hart’s Rules (Waddingham, 2014) and the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (NODWE) (Oxford University Press, 2014) – have been favourably reviewed recently in Reference Reviews (RR 2015/218 and RR 2015/176 respectively). The value and authority of these sources is indisputable so the main question here is: combined or separate?

In our earlier reviews, Hart’s is described as a “small compact handbook” and NODWE as...