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Style manual : an official guide to the form and style of Federal Government printing / U.S. Government Printing Office.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Government Printing Office.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Printing, Public--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Printing, Public.
- Printing--United States--Style manuals.
- Printing.
- United States.
- Authorship--Style manuals.
- Authorship.
- Genre:
- Style manuals.
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 453 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- [Thirtieth edition].
- Other Title:
- U.S. Government Printing Office style manual 2008
- Style manual 2008
- GPO style manual
- Place of Publication:
- Washington DC : U.S. G.P.O. : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P. O., 2008.
- Summary:
- New in the latest edition of the U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual:
- More contemporary and readable format
- An expanded glossary of computer terms
- New and updated entries in the Useful Tables chapter
- Updated list of foreign country information
- Totally revamped Capitalization chapter
- Inclusion of many suggestions from users
- URLs for further information
- ...and much more.
- Contents:
- 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 Leaderwork 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 322
- Principal Foreign Countries 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780160818127
- 0160818125
- OCLC:
- 315968333
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