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Editorial Style Guide

Names

Do we use courtesy titles, such as Mr. and Ms.? Are historic periods capitalized? Are exhibitions italicized? Find the answers to these and more in this section.

Editorial Style Guide

  • General Style Preferences
    • Acronyms and Initialisms
    • Ampersands
    • Capitalization
    • Dates and Times
    • Gender
    • Geographic Regions and States
    • Foreign Words
    • Indefinite Articles
    • Italics and Underlining
    • Names
      • People and Human Groups
      • Corporations, Organizations, and Products
      • Historic Periods and Art Movements
      • Titles of Works
    • Numbers
    • Plurals and Possessives
    • Punctuation
  • Academic Terms and Usage
  • University and College References
  • Appendix

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