The Handbook of Written English: Punctation, Common Practice and Usage by John G. Taylor
Unrivalled for depth, detail and examples, this book is a must for every bookshelf. It offers detailed guidance on: punctuation and abbreviation; presentation of tables, references, and footnotes; roman figures, special and foreign characters; UK-US spelling, foreign phrases; statistical tests, tables and diagrams; measures, metric conversions, currency and prices; layout and proof correcting; in addition to prefixes, suffixes and hyphenation.