[Editors] Commas, lists, and consistency

[Jennifer Schmitt]

Chicago manual requires the use of the penultimate comma -- these are  
the same guidelines (I believe) used by the Office of the President.

See: sections 6.18 - 6.56 in the 15th Edition.

Jennifer Schmitt
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schmittj at mit.edu

On Sep 11, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Jon Markowitz Bijur wrote:

> Dear editors,
>
> My department is having a civil argument about the use of commas in
> lists for informal writing (ie event listings on a website). Is it:
>
> eats, shoots, and leaves
> or
> eats, shoots and leaves
>
> ?
>
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