[U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual]
[Contents]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                                CONTENTS

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Chapter:
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    About this manual................................................iv
    What is GPO Access?...............................................v
 1. Advice to authors and editors.....................................1
 2. General instructions..............................................7
 3. Capitalization rules.............................................23
 4. Capitalization examples..........................................35
 5. Spelling.........................................................63
 6. Compounding rules................................................75
 7. Compounding examples.............................................85
 8. Punctuation.....................................................125
 9. Abbreviations and letter symbols................................147
        List of standard word abbreviations......................   158
        List of standard letter symbols for units of measure.....   165
        List of standard Latin abbreviations.....................   168
10. Signs and symbols...............................................171
11. Italic..........................................................177
12. Numerals........................................................181
13. Tabular work....................................................191
14. Leaderwork......................................................207
15. Footnotes, indexes, contents, and outlines......................211
16. Datelines, addresses, and signatures............................217
17. Useful tables...................................................225
18. Counties and geographic divisions...............................243
19. Congressional Record............................................257
        Congressional Record Index...............................   288
20. Reports and hearings............................................297
    Index...........................................................313