Military Studies

Guides and Style Manuals

 These are resources that come from a variety of military academic institutions and reflect an additional (and complimentary) source to civilian academic styles guides and manuals.

These sources consist of:

1. Links to various "How to"guides

2. Dictionaries

3. Reading and Research

4. Museum and Archival Regulations

5. Writing

6. Style manuals

Links to various "How to"guides

• "Tools for Historians" via the Air War College Gateway to Military History

 
Military History and Related Info

(also via the Air War College Gateway to Military History) 

• "Historiography, the Capturing of History "

 Dictionaries 

• Joint Publication 1-02, "Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. As amended through 17 October 2008." (by way of The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC^®) website)
  

Reading and Research

Reading Guides

The United States Marine Corps Professional Reading Program offers a number of documents related to book discussion including:

• Techniques for Leading a Book Discussion

• Book Discussion Template 

Reading Lists

• Professional Military Reading Lists (Combined Arms Reserach Library)

• Chief of Staff Air Force Professional Reading Program  (U.S. Air Force)

• Continuing Miltary Professionalism  (Air War College Gateway to the Internet)　

• Marine Corps Professional Reading List  (Library of the Marine Corps Univeristy)　

Research Guides

The U.S. Army Center for Military History provides a number of such guides under the heading "How to" and handbooks; comprising writing staff rides, Annual Command Histories, oral histories, organizational histories, and "Commander's Guide to Operational Records and Data Collection". 

• "U.S. Army Guide to Oral History" by Stephen J. Lofgren (available in either html or pdf format)

The Command and General Staff College (through the website of the Combined Arms Research Library) provides two research guides currently used by the Army for training of Army historians 

•   "The Guide to the Study and Use of Military History" by John E. Jessup and Robert W. Coakley

• the Combat Studies Institute "Report No. 12:   Evaluating Historical Materials" by Dr. Larry D. Roberts, which is available in both html

and pdf formats    http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/download/csipubs/roberts.pdf

Museum and Archival Regulations

"Army Regulations" related to museum collection standards, "procedures, responsibilities" related to writing Military History and regulations related to the changes in unit classification and status:

 http://www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/collect/cmh-ars.html

 Writing

• The Federation of American Scientists provide on their website a link to the the United States Army field manual,

"FM 1-20. Military History Operations February 2003"

• The United States Air Force offers the publication:

"The Tongue and Quill"  - AIR FORCE HANDBOOK 33-337 - 1 AUGUST 2004 

offers suggestions for effective oral and written communication.

•  The U.S. Army Combined Arms Center (also at the Command and General Staff College) offers

DA PAM 20-200 (Department of the Army Pamphlet)  "The Writing of American Military History" as part of its curriculum for professional military historians

• The History and Museums Division Marine Corps Historical Center offers the
  

"Marine Corps Historical Center Writing Guide" History and Museums Division Marine Corps Historical Center Washington Navy Yard, D.C. 2004   

•  The United States Air Force Academy offers the

United States Air Force Academy Executive Writing Course

 

• Dr. Edwin Moise (from Clemson University) offers his essay on term paper writing:

"Writing a Term Paper in Military History"    

"These guidelines are intended for students research papers for me in History 390, History 436/636, History 499 at Clemson University. Students in other institutions might also find some of my advice useful.". 

 Style manuals

• Citing Government Documents/Government Agency Style Manuals

• "Center for  Military History Style Guide”   (U.S. Army Center of Military History)

• Communications Style Guide - Fourth Edition - Marine Corps University -  Academic Year 2011