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References are to paragraph numbers except where specified as table, figure, or page numbers. See also glossary of key terms, pp. 823–40.
- galleries
- definition of, 12.7, p. 830
- plates in, 12.6
- galley proofs, 3.16, 13.71, p. 830
- gender
- bias-free language and, 5.204
- as property of noun, 5.11
- genealogical tables, 13.65, table 13.19
- general, 8.27
- generic terms
- abbreviations of, 15.32
- acts, treaties, and government programs, 8.87
- battles and campaigns, 8.122
- buildings and monuments, 8.61
- courts, 8.69
- cross-references, 18.22
- drugs, 8.155
- events and projects, 8.81
- foreign terms as, 8.59
- geological terms, 8.143
- legislative acts, 8.87
- manuscript items, 17.224
- for marking and coding manuscript, 2.88–90
- musical works, 8.203
- names combined with, 8.3
- parts of book, 8.189–90
- titles and offices, 8.21
- titles of nobility, 8.34
- genetics
- terminology, 8.139–41
- genus name
- abbreviations for, 8.129
- divisions higher than, 8.134
- subspecies, unspecified species, and varieties, 8.130–31
- geographical terms, abbreviations of
- Canadian provinces and territories, 15.30
- countries, 15.33–34
- Fort, Mount, and such, 15.32
- parts of the world, 8.47–54
- punctuation of, 15.31
- U.S. states and territories, 15.29
- geological terminology (e.g., ice age), 8.142–45
- German language
- apostrophe, 10.44
- and currency, 9.27
- guillemets, 10.45
- nouns, 7.54
- resources on, 10.42
- special characters, 10.49
- spelling, 10.42
- titles of works, 10.43
- word division, 10.46–48
- gerunds
- definition of, 5.110
- formation of, 5.108
- possessives with, 7.28
- word division of, 7.38
- See also participles and participial phrases
- of foreign titles, 10.6
- of signs in ASL, 10.147–54
- See also translations and translated works
- commissions, 17.320
- courts: Canadian, 17.334; divisions in, 9.51; federal, decisions of, 17.284–85; state and local, decisions of, 17.286; titles and offices in, 8.25, 8.69; U.S. Supreme Court, 4.55, 17.284
- See also legal cases; legal style
- executive department, 17.317–19
- names of, 8.66; administrative, 8.68, 10.8; capitalization of, 8.56, 8.70; legislative and deliberative, 8.25, 8.67; repeated in documentation, 16.86, 16.106
- numbers for successive, 9.50
- programs as, 8.86–87
- unpublished documents of, 17.324
- See also cities and towns; public documents; states
- definition of, 5.1
- parts of speech in, 5.3
- schools of thought about, 5.2
- of text and quotation, 11.13
- text citations and, 16.115
- vs. word usage, 5.198
- See also adjectives; adverbs; conjunctions; interjections; nouns; prepositions; pronouns; verbs
- axes on, 12.58
- curves on, 12.59
- examples of, figs. 12.3–5
- permission to use, 4.82
- See also charts; illustrations
- alphabet of, table 10.4
- documentation of classics, 17.250–59
- punctuation in, 10.137
- typesetting of, 10.132
- unaccented words in, 10.135
- vowels in, 10.136
- word division in, 10.139–42