[U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual]
[Contents]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]
Contents
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Chapter Page
About This Manual ........................................... v
GPO's Online Initiatives ................................... ix
1. Advice to Authors and Editors ................................... 1
2. General Instructions ............................................ 7
3. Capitalization Rules ........................................... 27
4. Capitalization Examples ........................................ 43
5. Spelling ....................................................... 79
6. Compounding Rules .............................................. 95
7. Compounding Examples .......................................... 109
8. Punctuation ................................................... 193
9. Abbreviations and Letter Symbols .............................. 221
Standard word abbreviations................................... 238
Standard letter symbols for units of measure ................. 247
Standard Latin abbreviations.................................. 251
Information technology acronyms and initialisms .............. 255
10. Signs and Symbols.............................................. 259
11. Italic ........................................................ 265
12. Numerals ...................................................... 269
13. Tabular Work................................................... 281
14. Leaderwor ..................................................... 299
15. Footnotes, Indexes, Contents, and Outlines .................... 303
16. Datelines, Addresses, and Signatures........................... 309
17. Useful Tables ................................................. 321
U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents .......................... 321
Most Populous U.S. Cities by State............................ 32
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Principal Foreign ............................................ 325
Demonyms: Names of Nationalities ............................. 332
Currency ..................................................... 334
Metric and U.S. Measures ..................................... 339
Common Measures and Their Metric Equivalents ................. 340
Measurement Conversion ....................................... 341
18. Geologic Terms and Geographic Divisions ....................... 343
19. Congressional Record .......................................... 371
Congressional Record Index .................................... 406
20. Reports and Hearings .......................................... 417
Index ......................................................... 433