Table of Contents
PREFACE
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Capitalization.......................................................................5
Common Nouns In Proper Names...................................................................................5
Derivatives Of Proper Names..........................................................................................5
Articles In Proper Names.................................................................................................5
Government Bodies .........................................................................................................6
Military Forces.................................................................................................................6
International Organizations..............................................................................................7
Diplomatic and Consular Units........................................................................................7
Political Parties ................................................................................................................7
Geographic Term.............................................................................................................7
Nationalities, Tribes, and Other Groups of People..........................................................8
Titles of Persons...............................................................................................................9
Publications......................................................................................................................9
Basic Rules.....................................................................................................................11
Ordinal Numbers............................................................................................................11
Special Rules..................................................................................................................11
Percentages and Times Phrases .....................................................................................14
Other Number Rules......................................................................................................16
Punctuation .......................................................................17
Apostrophe.....................................................................................................................17
Brackets..........................................................................................................................19
Bullets............................................................................................................................20
Colon..............................................................................................................................20
Comma...........................................................................................................................21
Dash (or Em Dash).........................................................................................................23
Ellipsis............................................................................................................................24
En Dash..........................................................................................................................24
Exclamation Point..........................................................................................................24
Hyphen...........................................................................................................................24
Parentheses.....................................................................................................................25
Period.............................................................................................................................25
Question Mark ...............................................................................................................26
Quotation Marks ............................................................................................................26
Semicolon ......................................................................................................................28
Slash...............................................................................................................................28
Abbreviations ....................................................................30
When To Spell Out ........................................................................................................30
Italics..................................................................................31
Prominence Or Emphasis...............................................................................................31
Titles ..............................................................................................................................31
Foreign Words ...............................................................................................................31