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References are to paragraph numbers except where specified as table, figure (fig.), or page number (p.). Page numbers in the online edition link directly to terms in the glossary.

da (Portuguese particle), 8.8
daggers and double daggers (symbols), 3.79, 14.25, 14.49
dangling terms
gerunds, 5.116
infinitives, 5.109
participles, 5.115
Danish language, 11.70
DAs (designer’s alterations), 2.135, p. 978
dashes
length of, compared, 6.75
marking manuscript for, 2.96
vs. parentheses, 6.95
preceding epigraph source, 1.37
2-em dashes, 2.96, 6.75, 6.93, 7.66, 13.59
typing, in manuscript preparation, 2.14
See also em dashes; en dashes; hyphens and hyphenation; punctuation; 3-em dashes
data, as singular or plural, 5.14, 5.250
databases
accession numbers for, 2.34, 14.215, 14.257, 14.270
bibliographic, 14.67
and copyright issues, 4.55, 4.56
dissertations and theses in, 4.60
and electronic rights, 4.65
hyperlinks to, 1.86, 1.96, 1.109
institutional repositories, 4.60, 4.66, 4.67, 14.215
legal, 14.270, 14.276, 14.300
metadata in, 1.75, 1.92, 1.121
in place of index, 1.110, 1.111
for proofreading, 2.140
publisher’s rights database, 4.71
search for copyright owner via, 4.82
in source citations: dissertations and theses, 14.215; formatting hiding publications from, 15.17; legal-style citations, 14.270, 14.276; magazine articles, 14.189; names vs. URLs or DOIs for, 14.9, 14.11, 14.161, 14.164, 14.175; newspaper articles, 14.191; permalinks for, 14.9; scientific, 14.257; shortened citations, 14.276
data cells. See tables
data falsification, 1.91
data sets, as electronic supplementary data, 1.78
date of download. See access dates
date of publication. See publication date
dates
abbreviations: months, 10.39, 14.171, 14.224, 15.15; years, 9.30, 9.64
adjectival use of, 5.83
alphabetizing of, 16.65
avoiding ambiguity in, 6.108, 9.35
avoiding of in, 5.250
centuries (see centuries)
of copyright, 1.22, 1.23, 1.24, 14.142
currency with, 9.25
decades, 9.33
in diaries, 1.52
editorial doubt, 6.68
fiscal year (FY), 9.64
in foreword, 1.40
formats for: all-numeral styles, 6.108, 9.35, 9.36; day-month-year, 6.38, 6.108, 9.35, 14.224, fig. 1.9; month-day-year, 6.38, 6.108, 9.35, 14.224; year-month-day (ISO), 6.108, 9.36, 9.40
holidays, 8.89
inclusive, 6.78–79, 9.34, 9.60, 9.64, 14.117, 14.144, 14.171
incomplete, 6.79
in legal-style citations: acts and treaties, 14.290; bills and resolutions, 14.283; cases and court decisions, 14.276, 14.279, 14.294, 14.298; hearings, 14.284; international entities, 14.305; legislation, 14.288, 14.295, 14.300; legislative debates and hearings, 14.285–87, 14.301
months (see months)
numbers for (see under numbers)
in prefaces, 1.41
punctuation: commas, 5.83, 6.17, 6.38, 9.54; en dashes, 6.78–79, 14.117, 14.144, 14.171, 15.41; hyphens, 6.108, 9.36; slashes, 6.107, 6.108, 6.113
in source citations: access dates, 14.12, 14.176, 14.207, 14.233, 14.237, 14.257, 15.50; interviews, 14.211, 15.53; manuscript collections, 14.224; multimedia content (recording or performance date), 14.261, 14.263; patents, 14.258; unpublished materials, 14.215–17, 15.53 (see also in legal-style citations above)
in titles of works, 14.93
unspecified date of death, 6.79
work period known (fl.), 10.42
years (see years)
See also periods of time; publication date; time designations
day-month-year date format, 6.38, 6.108, 9.35, 14.224, fig. 1.9
days of the week, 8.88, 10.40. See also dates; time designations
de, as prefix, 7.89 (sec. 4)
de, d’, de la, du, 8.7, 8.9, 16.84
dead (foul) copy or proofs, 2.105, 2.110
deadlines
indexing, 2.2, 16.4, 16.101
proofreading, 2.102
publication schedule, 2.2, figs. 2.1–2
Deaf, deaf, 8.43
debates, source citations for, 14.286–87, 14.301
decades, 9.33
decimal points
in celestial coordinates, 10.61
dex (decimal exponent), 9.12
vs. double and multiple numeration, 1.57n1
in global positioning coordinates, 10.36
with millions, billions, and such, 9.8, 9.24
in monetary amounts, 9.20, 9.23
in non-US style, 9.55
in SI style, 9.55, 9.56
in tables, alignment of, 3.72, 3.86, figs. 3.14–15, fig. 3.20
and use of zero, 9.19
See also fractions; periods (punctuation)
decked heads (spanner heads), 3.53, 3.57, fig. 3.13, fig. 3.16
declarative sentences (statements), 5.211, 5.246, 6.12, 6.68
dedications
format and placement of, 1.4, 1.7, 1.36
omitted in indexing, 16.109
running heads omitted from page, 1.11
submission of, 2.3
defamation, 4.70
defective words, 5.146
definite articles. See articles (definite and indefinite)
definitions, in text
highlighted in index, 16.143
mathematical, 12.25, 12.56
numbering of, 12.25, 12.56
punctuation of, 7.58
See also glossaries
degrees (academic). See academic concerns: degrees and affiliations
degrees (measurement), abbreviations for, 10.49, 10.52, 10.58. See also International System of Units; metric system; units of measurement
degrees (positive, comparative, superlative). See under adjectives and adverbs
degree symbol, 9.16, 10.36, 10.49, 10.58, 10.61
deictic (demonstrative) pronouns, 5.52
deities, 8.91, 8.92. See also religions and religious concerns; religious works
deletions
marking manuscript for, 2.94, 2.95, 2.124, fig. 2.6
marking proofs for, 2.124
stetting or reversal of, 2.130
whiz-deletions, 5.226, 5.247
delimiters, 12.26–35
alternative cases, 12.35
binomial coefficients, 12.32
common, 12.26
functional notation, 12.27
functions enclosed by, 12.17
inner product denoted by, 12.31
intervals, 12.30
for radicals in text, 12.44
rewriting fractions using exponents, 12.49
set notation, 12.28–29
vertical bars, 12.26, 12.28, 12.33–34
demonstrative (deictic) pronouns, 5.52
denominal verbs, 5.25
departments
administrative type, 8.63
capitalization, 14.190
in magazines, 8.177, 14.190
See also academic concerns: institutions and departments
departures from earlier practice
biographical notes placement, 1.66
commas with etc. and et al., 6.20
commas with questions in sentences, 6.42
double titles connected by or, 8.167, 14.91
email not hyphenated, 7.89 (sec. 3)
short form vs. ibid., 13.66, 14.34
titles of websites, 8.191, 14.206
US as noun, 10.32
dependent (subordinate) clauses
commas with, 6.24–27
in complex sentences, 5.219
in compound-complex sentences, 5.220
conditional (protases), 5.228
defined, 5.225
with different, 5.195
em dashes with, 6.89
parallel structure in, 5.242
quotations as, 13.14
relative, 3.54, 5.56, 5.60, 5.225, 5.226, 5.227, 6.27
remote, 5.60
subordinating conjunctions with, 5.200–201, 5.225, 6.24, 6.26
See also relative pronouns
derivative works
and copyright issues, 4.14, 4.31, 4.45
and Creative Commons licenses, 4.62
and enhanced electronic rights, 4.64
license to make, 4.34
public-domain work in, 4.22
See also compilations of previously published material; previously published materials
descenders, p. 978
describing words. See adjectives
design
book, 1.30, 2.73
and footnotes vs. endnotes, 14.44
of journals, 1.84, 1.115
of tables, 3.86
templates for, 2.2
testing, 2.139
designer’s alterations (DAs), 2.135, p. 978
design mockups (wire frames), 2.139
determinants, 12.51
determiners, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7. See also articles (definite and indefinite)
developmental editing, 2.48, 2.50
devices. See file formats and devices
dex (decimal exponent), 9.12
diacritical marks. See special characters
diaeresis (Greek), 11.110, 11.113
diagrams
genealogical, 3.46, fig. 3.10
text references and callouts for, 2.30
wording of, 2.65
See also charts and graphs; illustrations
dialect, 5.25, 5.185, 5.236, 10.42. See also colloquial speech
dialogue
capitalization in, 7.52, 13.43
direct discourse, 13.39, 13.44
in drama, 13.8, 13.46–47
and fair-use doctrine, 4.87
faltering or interrupted, 6.87, 6.89, 13.41, 13.50, 13.58
in field notes, 13.49
hanging (flush-and-hang) indentation in, 13.46
indirect discourse, 13.45
interjections in, 5.207
in interviews and discussions, 13.48
multiple paragraphs in, 13.32, 13.39
in non-English materials: French, 11.31; Italian, 11.47; Russian, 11.101; Spanish, 11.64
numerals in, 13.44
permissible changes to, 13.8
punctuation: colon preceding, 6.63, 6.65; ellipses, 13.41; em dashes, 6.91, 11.11, 11.19, 13.41–42; quotation marks, 13.32, 13.39–45
single-word speech, 13.40
titles and offices of people in, 8.20
unspoken discourse, 13.43
See also direct address; quotations; speech
diaries, 1.52. See also letters (correspondence); manuscript collections
dictionaries
for abbreviations, 10.1, 10.3, 10.6, 10.23, 10.31, 14.244
alphabetizing in, 16.58
alphabet tables in, 11.76, 11.91
biographical, 8.5, 16.32, 16.71, 16.84
contractions in, 7.30
electronic versions, 1.118, 1.120, 1.121, 14.233
for forms of address, 8.33
for generation terms, 8.42
for geographical terminology, 8.47, 16.32
HTML format for, 1.118
for hyphenation of compound terms, 7.81, 7.82, 7.89
for indexing of proper names, 16.32
interjections in, 7.31
for irregular adjectives, 5.87
and language settings, 2.80
legal, 8.82
matter not found in, 7.4
music, 7.70, 8.193
for named natural phenomena, 8.77
for names of letters, 7.68
for non-English words and phrases, 7.53, 7.54, 11.3, 11.75
organizing principle of, 1.123
for personal names, 8.3, 8.5, 8.6, 16.71, 16.84
for place-names, 8.44
for plant and animal names, 8.119, 8.128, 8.129
for plural forms, 5.13, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.9, 7.10, 7.14
for problematic words, 5.250
for pronounced h, 7.32
recommended, 2.54, 2.112, 5.250, 7.1, 7.2
running heads in, 1.13
source citations for, 14.232–33
for special characters, 11.76
for spelling, generally, 7.1
for technical abbreviations, 10.49
for trademarks, 8.153
for transliteration, 11.74, 11.83, 11.86, 11.91, 11.98
for word division, 7.36, 7.37, 7.38, 7.41, 7.42
for words derived from proper names, 8.60, 8.61
See also reference works
die copy, 1.69, 2.108
Digital Library Federation, 1.114
Digital Object Identifiers. See DOIs
digital printing, 1.28, p. 978
digital proofs, p. 978
digital rights, 4.63, 4.64, 4.65
digital rights management (DRM), 4.65, pp. 978–79
dimensions, 3.27
diphthongs
capitalization, 11.70
never divided, 7.39, 11.33, 11.42, 11.50, 11.66, 11.118
non-English languages: Dutch, 11.70; French, 11.33; German, 11.42; Greek, 11.118; Italian, 11.50; Latin, 11.55; Old and Middle English, 11.124; Russian, 11.108; Spanish, 11.66
Dirac bracket notation, 12.55
direct address
in imperative mood, 5.122
punctuation, 6.53, 6.66
titles and offices of people in, 8.20, 8.32, 10.16, 10.17
See also dialogue; quotations; speech
directional (“smart”) quotation marks and apostrophes, 2.85, 6.115, 13.7
directions. See compass points and directions
directives. See imperative sentences
directors’ names, 14.203
direct quotations. See block quotations; quotations; run-in quotations
disabilities, people with. See accessibility
disciplines and subjects, academic, 7.2, 8.30, 8.85, 8.86. See also academic concerns; scholarly works, generally
discographies, 1.63, 14.262, 14.263, 15.57, fig. 14.12
discussions. See dialogue; direct address; interviews and discussions; personal communications; speech; transcriptions
diseases, infections, procedures, and such, 8.144, 8.145
display (mathematical expressions). See under mathematical expressions
display pages, 1.7, 1.11, 1.12, 1.16
display type, p. 978
dissertations and theses
copyright for, 4.60
institutional repositories, 4.60, 4.66, 4.67, 14.215
microform editions, 14.115
source citations for, 14.215
titles of, in text, 8.188
distance, 7.89 (sec. 1), 10.49. See also metric system; physical quantities; units of measurement
distribution
copyright owner’s right of, 4.13
license for, 4.34
publishing agreements on, 4.51
source citations for, 14.141
subsidiary rights to, 4.34, 4.64, 4.76
distributive pronouns, 5.67
ditto marks, 3.62, 10.42
division of words. See word division
division sign, 12.15
divisions of books. See books: divisions of
do, 5.152, 5.215, 5.231
docket numbers, 14.276
Doctor, Dr., 10.16
documentation. See source citations
document comparison software, 2.86
document-delivery companies, 4.64
document type definitions (DTDs), p. 979
DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers)
and continuous publishing model, 1.82
on copyright page, 1.20, 1.28, 1.33, fig. 1.1, figs. 1.3–4
defined, 1.33, 1.79, 14.8, p. 978
for journal articles, 1.79, 1.82, 1.92, 1.103
in metadata, 1.33, 1.79, 1.92
resolvers for, 14.8
resources on, 14.8n2
in source citations: book reviews, 14.202, books, 14.100, 14.161; vs. database names, 14.11, 14.161, 14.175; electronic supplementary data, 14.187; journal articles, 14.23, 14.175, 14.178–79, 14.186, 15.9; periodicals, generally, 14.164; vs. permalinks, 14.9; publications in multiple formats, 14.16; reference entries, 14.234; short forms for, 14.10
treatment in text, 14.17–18
in version tracking, 1.28
See also URLs
dollars. See currency
dots. See periods (punctuation)
double comparative or superlative error, 5.87
double genitives (double possessives), 5.21, 5.49, 7.26
double negatives, 5.236
double or multiple numbering, 1.57, 1.57n1, 2.28, 2.29, 3.11, 3.50, 12.25
double possessives (double genitives), 5.21, 5.49, 7.26
double posting, in indexes, 16.16, 16.30
double-struck (blackboard) symbols, 12.14, 12.66
“down style” (capitalization), 8.1. See also sentence-style capitalization
drama
divisions of, 8.184
format of, 3.8, 13.46
quotation of, 13.47, 13.57
source citations for: classic English works, 14.253–54; frequently cited works, 13.67; reviews, 14.201, 14.203; short forms for, 14.254
titles of, 8.183
See also classical Greek and Latin works; dialogue; speech
dramatic rights, 4.64
drawings. See artwork; charts and graphs; illustrations; line art
DRM (digital rights management), 4.65, pp. 978–79
drop caps, 13.37, p. 979
drop folios, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.49, p. 980
drug names, 8.146
DTDs (document type definitions), p. 979
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, 1.92
dummy auxiliaries, 5.152. See also do
“dummy” folios, 1.81
dust jackets, 1.71, p. 979. See also covers of journals and paperback books; hardcover books: jackets
Dutch language, 8.10, 8.45, 11.70
DVDs. See multimedia content
dynasties, 9.45, 11.85