STYLE BOOK 21 G 0 V E R N M E N T. P R I N T ING OF F I CE EDITION 1:)F NOVEMBER, 1913 Monotype Keyboard Operators. 32 PEKCY S. ANDERSON STYLE BOOK A COMPILATION OF RULES GOVERNING EXECU- TIVE, CONGRESSIONAL, AND DEPARTMENTAL PRINTING INCLUDING THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD WASHINGTON, D. C, 1913 I Prepared under the direction of Public Printer CORNELIUS FORD Board of Revision JAMES E. PAYNE, Foreman Proof Section HOWARD E. SHERMAN EDWARD A. HUSE MARION E. BULLOCK WILLIAM A. PRATT WILLIAM F. O'BRIEN Washington, D.C., November, 1913 . ADDENDA. Capitalization and spelling in the Addenda of Webster's New International Dictionary of 1919. [Paste in Style Book.] ace (aviator). Georgette crepe, aeroboat. ghost line. aeroplane. Great War (also World War ; War of the aerostation. Nations). Agreement of London. Great White Way. airplane (if copy). Higher Thought, airwoman. higher-up (superior official), Albatros (German mkke of aeroplane). hobble skirt. Allies (the). hole in the air (aeronautics), All-Russian Congress of Soviets. hydro-aeroplane, antiaircraft. hydrobiplane. Anzac. hydromonoplane. apache (French criminal). Ido ; Idism ; Idist (artificial universal lan- Archibald or Archie (German mobile anti- guage). aircraft gun), Ito ; Itoism ; Itoist ; Itoland (Jewish or- jiutobus. ganization). autotruck. I. W. W. Aviatik (German make of aeroplane). .lugo-Slav. battleplane. Kultur. berlin (automobile). Lenin. Bertha (German gun). Liberty bond. black Maria (gun shell). Lloyd-George. bllghty. Maximalist. Boche. Mensheviki. Bolshevik (adj.). Minimalist. Bolsheviki. Mother's Day. Bolshevism. motor bus. Bolshevist. motor cycle. ' box tail (in a flying machine). newsprint (paper). boy scout (member of the Boy Scouts). New Thought. Breshkovskaya. no man's land. Cadet (in Russian politics). Pact of London. camp-fire girl (member of the Camp Fire podiatry, Girls). poilu. Cat-and-Mouse Act. policewoman. C. C. S. (Casualty Clearing Station). red-light disti'ict. Central Powers. R. F. C. (Royal Flying Corps). C. G. T. (French labor union), R. N. A. S. (Royal Naval Air Service). cloverleaf ( automobiles ) seaplane. Columbus Day (or Discovery Day). skyman. Congresswoman. SOS Constitutional Democrat (Russia). soviet (Petrograd Soviet). (TQ D spit ball. Czecho-Slovak (s) Spring-Rice. Czechoslovakia, syndicalism ; syndicalist, daylight saving. tag day. D. C. M. (Distinguished Conduct Medal). Tauhe (aeroplane), Declaration of London. tear shell. Discovery Day (or Columbus Day), Territorialism (Jewish). double-surfaced. T. N. T. dreadnought (class of battleships). tong (Chinese). drumfire (machine gun firing). Triple Entente. Entente (the). Trotski. fingerprint. U-boat. Flag Day. Valor Medal. flivver. victoria (automobile). Fckker. War of the Nations. Foreign Legion of France (also British warplane. Legion, etc.). waterplane. fourth arm (military), whitewings. fox trot. World War. 112294—19 SUBJECT INDEX AND SYNOPSIS OF STYLE. [Similar subjects have been consolidated, and in many cases a brief digest of the style is given, the superior figures with folio references indicating the first or second half of page where full information, exceptions, etc., will be found.] [Words in italic beginuing indented lines are not included in the alphabetical arrangement.] A. Abbreviation—Continued. Abbreviate—Continued. and ''an,*' use of, with vowels and conso- "A" In loork of all kinds—Continued. nants, 48 2. Bro., Co., &, etc., in firm and corporate Abbreviation: names, 32 2. Abbreviate— College degrees, etc., following surname, 34 1. In court icork— Compass directions with figures, 32 1. Claims, follow copy generally, except Court of "Continued" when abbreviated takes no Question and Answer, 52i; Supreme Qourt, apostrophe, 37 2. follow hterally, 51 2. Degrees with figures (degree mark for), 32 K In leader work— Dollars, pesos, and pounds with figures (•?, Firm and corporate names, months with day, and £ for); copy 0 indicate other abbre- units in reading columns, as railroads, and viations, 331. in tables, 401. jr., sr., and Esq., following name, 34 1, 41 1. In notes (cut-in, foot, and side)— Miscellaneous terms ("f. o. b.," etc.), list, Art., fig., etc., with figures or numerals. 33 K 32 2. with day, 33 1. Months Names in signatures, follow, 32 1. Stat. L., etc., 332. No. and Nos. with serial numbers, 33 1. Navy, department, JJ. S. preceding Army, Public-land subdivisions, copy editors to in- etc., 342. — dicate, 33 1. In parentheses Quarter of city with street, "NW.," etc. Art., fig., etc., with figures or numerals, 33 1. ("east," etc., spell), 34^. Citations, names of authorities as in copy, Sovereigns, parts of names of, I, IV, etc. (if also States, 49 2. spelled, "First," etc.), 332. Cong., sess., etc., 32 1. State after to-vvn, agency, reservation, etc., 1. H. R., S.,Res., Doc, etc., with number, 32 and any geographic term, list of, 33 2. Lat. and long, with figures, 32 2. Temperature, etc., as "10° F.,"34i. Months with day, 33 K Testimony, Q. and A., also 1 X-Q., etc., list, Stat. L., etc., 33 2; figures preceding, 49 2. 452. 2. U. S. as in notes, above, 34 Titles preceding names, list, 34 1. In tables— U. S. before name of Government vessel, 34 2. Art., fig., etc., with figures or numerals, 2d (for jimior), 3d, etc., with name, 34 1. 331. £ s. d. for pounds, shillings, and pence, 33 1. Bro., Co., &, R. R., Ry. (not Rwy.), etc., in Spell out— firm and corporate names, 36 2. "and" in companionships not finns, etc., Con. or Contd. (no apostrophe), to avoid 32 2. overruns, 37 2. Christian names, well known, except in sig- Months with day, including those in heads natures, 32 1. above and notes below; months standing Fort and Mount, 32 2. alone in narrow boxes, 362. Fractions, common, alone (except such ex- Names, given, well known, to avoid over- pressions as "two |-inch boards"), 35 2; runs; otherwise foUow, 362. when spelled, compounded, 92 2; of public Units in reading columns only when neces- lands, "half" and "quarter," not "one- sary, forms of; over figure columns. Ft. in., half," etc., 33 1. etc., italic, 36 1. Accents, use of: In work of all kinds— Proper names, follow accents in; geographic a. m., m., and p. m. with figures, 32 1. names not accented, 462. Addresses, if appearance requires, 41 1. AVords accented, partial list, exceptions, 46 2. 3 4. SUBJECT INDEX. Addresses. Capitalization—Continued, Abbreviate for good appearance, 41 1. Capitalize—Continued. At Beginning (flush, one lead under) or end First words of quotations, 27 1. (indented) of letter as in copy, 41 1. Foreign Governments, rulers, legislative Business and residence, principal words capi- bodies, and subdivisions, table of; lower- talized in, 41 1. case foreign officers and cabinet members, Esq., Jr., and Sr., with small caps; Esq., etc., 23 1, 24. with caps, 41 1. Genera, names of, and families; lower-case Examples and rules for, 41 2. species, 26 2. General, italic, lower-case, proper nouns only Geographic terms with name, exceptions, capitalized, 41 1. 24 2; also synonyms for certain, 25 K One lead under, unless clear, 41 1. Geologic ages, etc., exceptions, 25 1. Spacing, 41 1. Government, United States or foreign, singu- Adjectives: lar, plural, and adjective form, except in the Compound, generally hyphenated, 92 1. abstract, 25 2. Derived from proper names capitalized, excep- Headings, parts of speech capitalized in, 22 '. tions, 21'; lower-case those (and verbs also) Historical documents (as Declaration of Inde- ending in ''ize," 22 1. pendence, etc.), 27 1. Apostrophes: Home, Soldiers', in District of Columbia; other- Omit, in abbreviation "Contd.," 37 2; also in wise only with name, 26 2. geographic names, exception, 46 2. House (for hotel, not a residence), distinction, In Possessives, 47 1. 21 2. In Supreme Court work to indicate omitted Legislative bodies only with name of State, 21 1. letters in words, 52 1. Lower or Upper only if part of geographic name, Army. (See under Capitalization.) exceptions, 25 2; with certain geologic terms, Astronomical and mathematical signs, 120. 251. Member of Congress, all designations, 26 1. B. Military organizations with names, except Bear oflf in tables: those of persons, 22 2. Date columns en from rules, 37 2. Nation, synonym for United States or a sub- Eractions en from rules, 38 2. division of Oklahoma; also with names of Leaders and dashes en from middle rule in double- Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, 26 1. up tables, 38 1. National only when preceding a capitalized References, 3-em space in figure columns and word, 26 1. footnotes, 5-em in reading columns, 2. 38 Navy and organizations of, and branches; but Tables in rules, 1 from outside rules; same em navy yard, navy-yard employees, etc., 26 all rules if cast allows from em both sides of Numbers as names only when with a capitalized figures, 39 2. title, 26 1. etc. (See Capitalization.) Board, bureau, under Prepositions when parts of names from foreign Bookbinding, different styles, margins for, num- languages, without titles; lower-case when bering, etc., 159 1. with titles, etc., 27 1. Blank-book work, 159 2; scale for indexing, 160 1. President of United States and any synonym for; lower-case presidential, 26 1. C. Principal words in titles of books, plays, etc. Capitalization (see also Guide to, 28-31): (See under Titles of books, etc., below.) Capitalize— Proper names, or words used as such, singular Addresses, etc., principal words in, 22 1. or plural, 21 1. Army, adjective, standing alone, organizations Province, synonym for State; also of Philip- of, and branches; also foreign, when with pine Islands and Canada; lower-case provin- name, 22 2. cial, 26 1. Biblical, etc., 27 1. Publications, Government, 27 1. Board, bureau, department, etc.. Government Reservation and Reserve following name, and State, with name; lower-cased if alone, exceptions, 26 1. 22 2.