British Jesuits
Name & title: Philip Endean
Institution & publication: The Way
Type of publication: journal of spirituality
Readership audience: people interested in retreat-giving
Number of pages: ca 144
Frequency of publication: quarterly
Circulation: 2000
Color: b & w
Basic style manual: institution
Other style manuals: Oxford Dictionary of Writers and Editors
Reason for using the manual: standard British way of doing things
Dictionary: Oxford English
Reason for using dictionary: we're British!
Other resources: Oxford Manual of Style; Oxford Dictionary of Writers and Editors
Items on our house style sheet not covered in our manual: Pretty well everything Jesuit or Catholic we specify: www.theway.org.uk/editorialconventions.shtml
Some of our own conventions are long-standing, and I wouldn't know how many of them deviate from the Oxford UP variants.
Items on our house stylesheet that override our manual: inclusive language for God and humanity--questions of pastoral sensitivity US American--because there are other inhabitants of the American continent -ise and -ize: the need for a rational policy commas in lists: logic 16 August 2003--to avoid two numbers together.