Synopses & Reviews
Designed to achieve uniform word and type treatment and economy of word use in the form and style of Government printing. Edge indexed.
About the Author
Government Printing Office
Table of Contents
CONTENTS About this manual .................................................................
IV What is
GPO Access? ..........................................................
.V 1. Advice to authors and editors .........................................
.1 2. General instructions ........................................................
.7 3. Capitalization rules ..........................................................
. 23 4. Capitalization examples ..................................................
. 35 5. Spelling ..............................................................................
.. 63 6. Compounding rules .......................................................
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75 7. Compounding examples ...............................................
....85 8. Punctuation ........................................................................
125 9. Abbreviations and letter symbols ...................................
147 List of standard word abbreviations ................................. 158 List of standard letter symbols for units of measure .
165 List of standard Latin abbreviations .................................. 168 10. Signs and symbols ....................................................
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171 11. Italic ...............................................................................
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177 12. Numerals .....................................................................
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181 13. Tabular work ........................................................
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191 14. Leaderwork ..........................................................
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207 15. Footnotes, indexes, contents, and outlines ...........
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211 16. Datelines, addresses, and signatures ...................
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217 17. Useful tables .......................................................
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225 18. Counties and geographic divisions ...........................
... 243 19. Congressional Record ..............................................
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257 Congressional Record Index ...........................................
288 20. Reports and hearings .................................................
. 297 Index ......................................................................................
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