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Formatting

7/31/2012

 
Italics
  • Book and journal titles
  • Foreign words (except commonly used)
Quotation Marks
  • Song, article and poem titles
  • Catch phrases and slogans
Numbers
  • Spell one through nine
  • Numerals 10 and above
  • Percent in numbers (40 percent)
  • Dollars: $10, nine dollars
  • 100 degrees Fahrenheit
  • 1903–1904
  • 1930s
  • 19th-century army; developed during the 19th century
  • Ages in numerals if greater than nine (and hyphenated): eight-year-old; 11-year-old son; 11 years old
  • Runs of numbers all in numerals (42 killed, 112 wounded, 7 deported . . .)
  • Do not begin sentences with a numeral (use “Three” instead of “3”)
Miscellaneous Formatting
  • One space after periods
  • Spell out titles (Lieutenant, General, Governor, President) prior to a surname. Titles are normally lower case if they do not precede a person’s name (President Roosevelt; Theodore Roosevelt was president). Abreviate title (Lt., Gen., Gov.) prior to a given name (Gen. William Jackson Palmer).
  • Spell out months (Use “September” instead of “Sept.”)
  • Ellipses between phrases are made with three periods separated by spaces (. . .)
  • Ellipses between sentences, or a sentence and a phrase are made with four periods separated by spaces, with the first period immediately after the first sentence. . . . as demonstrated
  • Do not use ellipses at the beginning or end of a quote
  • Use brackets [ ] to indicate writer’s additions within quotes
  • Place period and commas within the quote marks “like this.”
  • Do not make every sentence a new paragraph
  • Do not use contractions

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