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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.
- N, or n (“number”), 13.5, 13.41, 13.74, 15.56, tables 13.1, 13.21
- namely, 6.44, 6.61, 6.68
- names, personal
- academic titles and degrees with (see under academic concerns)
- clerical titles with, 18.39
- context of, 8.4
- deities, revered persons, and such, 8.98–102
- division of, 7.40
- English, 8.7–9
- epithets or nicknames, 8.36
- familiar forms of, 18.33
- generic names with, 8.3
- incomplete or unknown, 18.43–44
- with laws and theories, 8.157
- letters standing for, 7.66
- Mac or Mc with, 18.71
- married women’s, 18.36
- missing or omitted, 6.95
- monarchs and popes, 18.37
- non-English, 8.10–20, 18.74–85; Arabic, 8.17, 18.74; articles with, 8.9, 8.11, 8.14, 8.63; Chinese, 8.18, 10.101–3, 10.106, 18.76; context of, 8.10; Dutch, 8.13; French, 8.11; German, 8.12; Hungarian, 8.16, 18.77; Indonesian, 8.20, 18.79; Italian, 8.12; Japanese, 8.19, 10.101–3, 10.106, 18.80; Native American, 8.9; other Asian, 8.20, 18.85; Portuguese, 8.12, 18.81; Russian, 8.15; Spanish, 8.14, 18.82
- nonliteral use of, 8.65
- numbers with, 9.46–54
- O’ with, 18.72
- patterns in use of, 8.1
- persons with same, 18.35
- of princes and dukes, 18.38
- titles preceding, 8.21–23
- variants of, 18.32
- words derived from, 5.67, 8.2, 8.64–65, 8.97, 10.29
- See also author’s name; titles and offices
- for brands and trademarks, 8.162–63
- compound, 18.70
- as index main entries, 18.8
- with internal capitals, 8.163
- italics omitted from foreign, 7.53
- in phrasal adjectives, 5.93
- places with same, 18.45
- variants of, 18.32
- words derived from, 5.67, 8.2, 8.64–65, 8.97, 10.29
- See also businesses: names of; names, personal; organizations, names of; place-names
- abbreviations of, 15.33–34
- capitalization of, 8.47
- documentation: articles by news services, 17.197; basic elements, 17.188; electronic, 17.198; headlines, 17.184, 17.189; letters to the editor, 17.193; regular columns, 17.190; supplements, 17.194; in text, 17.191; unsigned articles, 17.192
- in legal style, 17.277
- alphabetizing, 18.64
- lords and ladies, 18.38
- possessives of, 5.26
- princes and dukes, 18.38
- pronouns with, 5.46
- resources on, 8.34
- in manuscript citations, 17.233
- in reference lists, 16.103
- consecutive, 16.26
- in editing process, 2.61
- multiple references and, 16.34
- for nontextual notes (e.g., table), 16.28
- renumbering of, 16.29
- articles cited in: electronic, 17.181; foreign-language, 17.176; forthcoming, 17.167; installments of, 17.172; page references, 17.152, 17.168–69; place of publication, 17.174; shortened references, 17.179; special issues, 17.170; titles of, 17.156–58; translated or edited work, 17.175; volume number, 17.162, 17.166; volume series, 17.178
- authors’ names in (see author’s name)
- capitalization in, 16.17
- citation of specific, 17.139–40
- citations plus commentary in, 16.52
- editing of, 2.61–63
- editor’s/translator’s with author’s, 16.65
- endnotes: examples of, figs. 16.2, 16.9; footnotes with, 16.27, 16.63; format and placement of, 1.86, 16.19, 16.59; fuller information needed in, 16.62; indexing and, 18.109–11, 18.113, 18.119; keyed to page numbers, fig. 16.12; pros and cons of, 16.23–24; running heads for, 1.93, 1.98, 2.79, 3.9, 16.60–61
- footnotes: continued to next page, 16.57, fig. 16.1; endnotes with, 16.27, 16.63; examples of, figs. 16.1, 16.10; format of, 1.86; indexing and, 18.109–10, 18.112–13; of journal articles, 1.152; keyed to poetry lines, fig. 16.11; placement of, 16.19; previously published material in, 2.45; proofreading of, 3.17; pros and cons of, 16.21–22; for tables, 1.184, 13.43–50; text citations with, 16.64, fig. 16.6
- humanities style (see notes-and-bibliography documentation system)
- keyboarding, 16.20
- letter writers’ names in, 17.76
- paragraphs discouraged in, 16.56
- part title for, 1.64
- permissible changes to, 11.8
- publication details in: components of, 17.96; date only, 17.98; forthcoming, 8.195, 16.103, 17.121–22, 17.167; place and date only, 17.97; publication date, 16.12, 17.115, 17.117–18; publisher’s name, 17.103–14
- in reprinting previously published material, 2.43
- See and cf., 16.58
- separation of citations in, 16.51
- series of volumes in, 17.90
- shortened citations in: authors’ names, 16.44, 17.179; basic and alternative forms, 16.42, 16.46; benefits, 16.3; full citation cross-referenced, 16.43; ibid., 16.47–48; idem, 16.49; italics vs. roman, 16.45; op. cit. and loc. cit., 16.50; purpose, 16.41; titles, 8.179, 16.45, 17.62–63
- software for, 16.20
- titles of works in (see titles of works)
- translation credited in, 11.89
- translation or original text of quoted matter in, 11.87–88
- unnumbered: acknowledgments in, 2.45, 16.70; biographical notes in, 1.67, 16.69; for epigraph, 1.39, 1.66, 16.66; keyed by line or page numbers, 16.67; placement of, 16.66; source of reprints in, 1.67, 16.68; symbols for, 16.26–27, 16.35, 16.63, 16.65
- See also note numbers; notes-and-bibliography documentation system; and specific type of material (e.g., audiovisual materials)
- basic elements and form of, 17.17
- benefits of, 16.3
- flexibility and consistency in, 17.18
- foreign terms in, 17.19
- headline-style capitalization in, 16.7
- quotations from secondary sources, 17.274
- See also bibliographies; notes
- abbreviations of, 15.7
- agent, 5.28
- appositive, 5.29
- articles with coordinate, 5.74
- capitalization of, 5.5–6
- case of, 5.22–27; definition of, 5.10; function of, 5.22; nominative, 5.23; objective (accusative), 5.24; personal (pronouns), 5.48; possessive (genitive), 5.25–27
- derivative, 5.33
- functional variations of, 5.30–32
- infinitives as, 5.107
- limiting prepositions and, 5.176
- plurals of, 5.14–21; compounds, 5.19, 7.8; ending in f or fe, 5.16; ending in o, 5.17; ending in y, 5.18; formation of, 5.14; irregular, 5.20; proper, 5.17, 7.9; singular meaning of, 5.21, 7.19; s vs. es for, 5.15, 5.17
- possessives of (see possessives)
- prepositional phrase as, 5.166
- recipient, 5.28
- verbs as, 5.31
- See also names, personal; names, proper; place-names
- appendixes, 1.82
- for addresses and thoroughfares, 9.55–57
- alphabetizing, 18.63–64
- a or an with, 7.46
- for chemical elements, 15.70
- circling of, 2.95
- commas between digits, 9.59
- for dates, 9.33–40
- dex with, 9.13
- for electronic book revisions, 1.123
- Greek, table 10.5
- hyphens to separate, 6.82
- inclusive: abbreviations and symbols with, 9.18; alternative systems of, 9.65; appropriate use of, 18.12, 18.123; basic form of, 9.64, 18.13; in citations, 17.130, 17.152, 18.113; with commas, 9.66; en dashes to connect, 6.83, 9.62, 18.99; for specific chapters, 17.68–69; spelled out, 9.50–54, 9.63; in titles, 9.68; words to connect, 9.63; for years, 9.67–68
- keyboarding of, 2.10
- line breaks and, 7.41
- MYR and GYR with, 9.12
- with names, 9.46–54
- as nouns, plurals of, 7.15
- ordinal: abbreviations for, 9.8, 9.47, 17.292, 17.300; for labor unions and lodges, 9.54; for military units, 9.52; with names of churches, 9.53; for political and judicial divisions, 9.51; spelled out, 9.8–9, 9.50–54; for successive governments, dynasties, and such, 9.50
- for pages in electronic files, 2.20–22
- for percentages, 9.19
- for physical quantities, 9.14–18 (see also measurement, English; metric system)
- possessives of, 7.18
- punctuation of, 9.59–61
- readability of, 9.1
- space between digits, 9.60
- spelled out: alternative rule, 9.6; basic principles, 9.2–3, 9.7; marking for, 3.33; numbers beginning a sentence, 9.5, 9.33; ordinals, 9.8–9, 9.50–54; round numbers, 9.4, 9.28; with time periods, 8.77; titles of works with, 8.174; very large numbers, 9.10
- for time of day, 9.41–45
- in vertical lists, 6.127, 6.129–30
- See also arabic numerals; currency; fractions; line numbers; mathematical expressions; measurement, English; metric system; numbering; roman numerals; subscripts; superscripts; volume numbers