Chapter 4. CAPITALIZATION EXAMPLES
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CAPITALIZATION EXAMPLES (Based on the rules in the preceding chapter, ‘‘Capitalization Rules’’) A-bomb Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs; the abstract B, 1, etc. Administrator Academy: Admiralty, British, etc. Air Force; the Academy Admiralty, Lord of the Andover; the academy Adobe Acrobat Portable Document For- Coast Guard; the Academy mat (PDF) Merchant Marine; the Academy Adobe Acrobat Reader Military; the Academy Adviser, Legal (Department of State) National Academy of Sciences; the Africa: Academy of Sciences; the academy east Naval; the Academy East Coast but service academies north accord, Paris peace (see Agreement) South accords, Helsinki South-West (Territory of) Act (Federal, State, or foreign), short or West Coast popular title or with number; the African-American (see Black) act: Agency, if part of name; capitalized Appropriation standing alone if referring to Fed- Classification eral unit: Economy Central Intelligence; the Agency Flood Control Chippewa (Indian); the agency Lend-Lease Act; but lend-lease mate- agent orange rials, etc. Ages: National Teacher Corps Age of Discovery Organic Act of Virgin Islands Dark Ages Panama Canal Elizabethan Age Pay Golden Age (of Pericles only) Public Act 145 (see also Public Act) Middle Ages Revenue but atomic age; Cambrian age; copper River and Harbor Act of 1996 age; ice age; missile age; rocket age; Selective Training and Service space age; stone age; etc. Agreement, with name; the agreement: Stock Piling General Agreement on Tariffs and Tariff Trade (GATT); the general agree- Trademark ment Walsh-Healey Act; but Walsh-Healey International Wheat Agreement; the law (or bill) wheat agreement; the coffee agree- act, labor-management relations ment Acting, if part of capitalized title North American Free-Trade Agree- ACTION (independent Federal agency)1 ment (NAFTA) Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Status of Forces; but status-of-forces Adjutant General, the (see The) agreements Administration, with name; capitalized United States-Canada Free-Trade standing alone if Federal unit: Agreement; the free-trade agree- Farmers Home ment Food and Drug but the Geneva agreement; the Pots- Maritime dam agreement; Paris peace agree- Veterans’ (follow apostrophe) ment but Reagan administration; adminis- Air Force: tration bill, policy, etc. Air National Guard (see National) Administrative Law Judge Davis; Judge Base (with name); Air Force base (see Davis; an administrative law judge Base; Station) Civil Air Patrol; Civil Patrol; the pa- 1 Not an acronym. Capitalization represents trol agency’s preference. Command (see Command) 35 VerDate 27-JAN-2000 02:20 Oct 08, 2000 Jkt 185155 PO 00000 Frm 00047 Fmt 9959 Sfmt 9959 C:\BILL\STYLE\CHAPTER.004 pfrm35 PsN: pfrm35 36 CHAPTER 4 Air Force—Continued American—Continued One (Presidential plane) Veterans of World War II (AMVETS) Reserve War Mothers; War Mothers; a Mother Reserve Officers’ Training Corps American Standard Code for Informa- WAF (see Women in the Air Force) tion Interchange (ASCII) Airport: La Guardia; Reagan National; AmeriCorps Program the airport Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Alaska Native (collective term for Corporation) Aleuts, Eskimos, and Indians of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; a Alaska): the Native; but a native of Mason; a Freemason Alaska, Ohio, etc. Annex, if part of name of building; the Alliance, Farmers’, etc.; the alliance annex Alliance for Progress; the Alliance ANSI Z39.50 Alliance for Progress Program Antarctic Ocean (see Arctic; Ocean) alliances and coalitions (see also pow- appellations: ers): Bay State (Massachusetts) Allied Powers; the powers (World Big Four (powers, railroad, etc.) Wars) City of Churches (Brooklyn) Atlantic alliance Fair Deal Axis, the; Axis Powers; the powers Great Depression Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Lux- Great Society embourg) Holocaust Big Four (European); of the Pacific Keystone State (Pennsylvania) Big Three New Deal Central Powers; the powers (World New Federalism War I) New Frontier European Economic Community (see the Hub (Boston) also Common Market) Third World Fritalux (France, Italy, Benelux coun- appendix 1, A, II, etc.; the appendix; but tries) Appendix II, when part of title: Ap- North Atlantic Treaty Organization pendix II: 2 Education Directory (see Organization) AppleShare Western Powers AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol Western Union (powers); the union (AARP) Allied (World Wars I and II): appropriation bill (see also bill): armies deficiency Governments Department of Agriculture Nations for any governmental unit peoples independent offices Powers; the powers; but European aquaculture; acquiculture powers Arab States Supreme Allied Commander Arabic numerals Allies, the (World Wars I and II); also Arboretum, National; the Arboretum members of Western bloc (political Archipelago, Philippine, etc.; the archi- entity); but our allies; weaker allies, pelago etc. Architect of the Capitol; the Architect Alzheimer’s disease Archivist of the United States; the Ar- Ambassador: chivist British, etc.; the Ambassador; the Arctic: Senior Ambassador; His Excellency Circle Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Current (see Current) the Ambassador; Ambassador at Ocean Large; an ambassador zone amendment: but subarctic Social Security Amendments of 1954; arctic (descriptive adjective): 1954 amendments; the Social Secu- clothing rity amendments; the amendments conditions Baker amendment fox to the Constitution (U.S.); first grass amendment, 14th amendment, etc. night American: seas Federation of Labor and Congress of Arctics, the Industrial Organizations (AFL– Area, if part of name; the area: CIO); the federation Cape Hatteras Recreational Gold Star Mothers, Inc.; Gold Star White Pass Recreation; etc. Mothers; a Mother Legion (see Legion) 2 The colon is preferred; a dash is permis- National Red Cross; the Red Cross sible; but a comma is too weak. VerDate 27-JAN-2000 02:20 Oct 08, 2000 Jkt 185155 PO 00000 Frm 00048 Fmt 9959 Sfmt 9959 C:\BILL\STYLE\CHAPTER.004 pfrm35 PsN: pfrm35 CAPITALIZATION EXAMPLES 37 Area—Continued army—Continued but area 2; free trade area; Metropoli- mule, shoe, etc. tan Washington area; bay area; of occupation; occupation army nonsmoking area Red Arlington: Arsenal, Rock Island, etc.; the arsenal Memorial Amphitheater; the Memo- article 15; but Article 15, when part of rial Amphitheater; the amphi- title: Article 15: Uniform Code of theater Military Justice Memorial Bridge (see Bridge) Articles National Cemetery (see Cemetery) of Confederation (U.S.) Arm, Cavalry, Infantry, etc. (military); of Impeachment; the articles the arm Assembly of New York; the assembly Armed Forces (synonym for overall Mili- (see also Legislative Assembly) tary Establishment); British Armed Assembly (see United Nations) Forces; the Armed Forces of the Assistant, if part of capitalized title; the United States assistant armed services assistant, Presidential (see Presidential) armistice Assistant Secretary (see Secretary) Armory, Springfield, etc.; the armory Associate Justice (see Supreme Court) Army, American or foreign, if part of Association, if part of name; capitalized name; capitalized standing alone standing alone if referring to Fed- eral unit: only if referring to U.S. Army: American Association for the Ad- Active; Active-Duty vancement of Science; the associa- Adjutant General, the tion All-Volunteer Federal National Mortgage (Fannie Band (see Band) Mae); the Association branches; Gordon Highlanders; Royal Young Women’s Christian; the asso- Guards; etc. ciation Brigade, 1st, etc.; the brigade; Robin- Astrophysical Observatory (see Observ- son’s brigade atory) Command (see Command) Asynchronous Balanced Mode (ABM) Command and General Staff College Atlantic: (see College) Charter (see Charter) Company A; A Company; the company coast Confederate (referring to Southern community Confederacy); the Confederates Coast States Continental; Continentals Destroyer Flotilla; the destroyer flo- Corps (see Corps) tilla; the flotilla District of Washington (military); the Fleet (see Fleet) district mid-Atlantic Division, 1st, etc.; the division North Engineers (the Corps of Engineers); Pact (see Pact) the Engineers; but Army engineer seaboard Establishment slope Field Establishment South Field Forces (see Forces) time, standard time (see time) Finance Department; the Department but cisatlantic; transatlantic 1st, etc. Attorney General (U.S. or foreign coun- General of the Army; but the general try); but attorney general of Maine, General Staff; the Staff etc. Headquarters, 1st Regiment attorney, U.S. Headquarters of the; the headquarters Authority, capitalized standing alone if Hospital Corps (see Corps) referring to Federal unit: Medical Museum (see Museum) National Shipping; the Authority Organized Reserves; the Reserves Port of New York; the port authority; Regiment, 1st, etc.; the regiment the authority Regular Army officer; a Regular St. Lawrence Seaway Authority of Revolutionary (American, British, Canada; the authority French, etc.) Tennessee Valley; the Authority service Auto Train (Amtrak) Surgeon General, the (see Surgeon autumn General) Avenue, Constitution, etc.; the avenue Volunteer; the Volunteers; a Volun- Award: Academy, Distinguished Service, teer Merit, Mother of the Year, etc.; the army: award (see also decorations, etc.) Lee’s army; but Clark’s 5th Army Axis, the (see alliances) mobile Ayatollah VerDate 27-JAN-2000 02:20 Oct 08, 2000 Jkt 185155 PO 00000 Frm 00049 Fmt 9959 Sfmt 9959 C:\BILL\STYLE\CHAPTER.004 pfrm35 PsN: pfrm35 38 CHAPTER 4 Badlands (SD