Formatting

Copyright notice
Abbreviations, initialisms, & acronyms
- Abbreviation, initialism, acronym, or symbol?
- Acronyms in headings
- Common abbreviations
- Defining acronyms and abbreviations
- Definite article and acronyms
- Formatting acronyms and abbreviations
- Indefinite article and acronyms
- Plural of acronyms
- Possessive of acronyms
- Shortened names and titles
- Shortened words
- Spelling out acronyms
- Using abbreviations and acronyms
- Using symbols as abbreviations
- Standard abbreviations
Art, captions, & callouts
- Appearance and placement of art
- Cite the source
- Placement of captions and call-outs
- Referencing untitled art
Bibliographies and citations
- Citation methods
- Citing acts, ordinances, bills, and regulations
- Citing by author-date
- Citing case law
- Citing sources of information
- Citing titles and document details in text
- Files cited as a data source
- Formatting documentary notes
- Formatting references
- Italic or quotation marks?
- Reference the whole and then cite the specific
- Referencing books, printed articles, and conference papers
- Referencing company reports and unpublished reports
- Referencing electronic documents
- Terminology
- Undated and anonymous works
Capitalization
- Capitalization following a punctuation mark
- Capitalization guidelines
- Capitalization in lists
- Cross-references
- Minerals and geological terms
- Place names
- Technical terms and jargon
- Title-style rules
- Titles and headings
- UI elements
Company names
- Person and number of company names
- Possessive of company names
- Referring to companies
Computer program elements
- Formatting code, macros, and scripts
- Formatting UI elements
Coordinates
- Axis and units
- Coordinates examples
- Datum and projection
- Elevations and RLs
- Geographic coordinates
- Grouping digits
- Negative coordinates
- Order of coordinates
Copyright notice
- Determining the copyright date
- Format of copyright notice
- Need for copyright notice
- Placement of copyright notice
Credits and permissions
- Attribute the original work
- Format of credit line
- Placement of credit line
Cross-references
- Cross-references
- Cross-references in online documentation
- Cross-references to art
- Formatting cross-references
- Syntax of cross-references
Defined terms
- Code- and rules-defined terms
- Defined terms
- How to define a term
Equations
- Complex equations
- Mathematical symbols
- Simple equations
File names, extensions, and URLs
- File name extensions
- Formatting folder names and drive names
- Literals and placeholders
- Punctuation after a file name or internet address
- Quoting data files and electronic documents
- Syntax of file names and network addresses
Footnotes
- Footnote identifiers
- Footnotes, endnotes, or bibliography?
- Numbering footnotes
- Referencing footnotes
- Table notes
- Using footnotes
Job titles
- Job titles and positions
- Professional qualifications
Lists
- Bulleted lists
- Labelled lists
- List style
- Nested lists
- Numbered lists
- Punctuating lists
- Term lists and glossaries
- Unnumbered lists
- Using lists
- Vertical sentence
Measurements
- Dimensions
- Hyphenating number and unit
- Ranges
- Spelling out units of measure
- Symbols
- Use numerals for all measurements
Money and currencies
- Amount, sum, or quantity?
- Consistency within a category
- Currency abbreviations
- Exchange rates
- Numerals vs words
- Rates of cost and revenue
- Rounding currency
- Thousands, millions, and billions
Numbers
- Adjectival compounds
- Aligning numbers in tables
- At the beginning of a sentence
- Commas and spaces in numbers
- Compound numbers
- Fractions as words and decimals
- Measurements
- Negative numbers
- Numbered sections
- Numbers from examples
- Numerals vs words
- Ordinal numbers
- Ranges
- Rule of categories
- Singular vs plural
Ornamentation
- Ornamentation guidelines
- Ornamenting general text
- Ornamenting text in user guides (IT)
Post-nominals
- Absorption
- Degrees and diplomas
- Formatting
- Long form
- Order
- Professional memberships and accreditations
- Punctuation
- Using post-nominals
Quotations
- Attribute to the source
- Block quotation
- Carrier expressions
- Editor’s notes and implied words
- Errors
- Formatting quotations
- Long quotations
- Omitted words and letters
- Punctuating quotations
Special characters
- Special characters
Symbols
- Imperial units
- Non-standard units
- Plurals of symbols
- Punctuating symbols
- SI operators
- SI prefixes
- SI symbols
- SI units
- Using symbols
Tables
- Capitalization and punctuation
- Column headings
- Content
- Examples
- Formatting
- Long tables
- Numbering tables
- Pagination
- Table notes
- Using tables
- Wide tables
Telephone numbers
- Telephone numbers
Terms of government
- Terms of government
Time
- Clock time, 24-hour
- Clock time, general
- Dates
- Eras, centuries, and decades
- Frequency and the prefix bi-
- Measurement and rates of time
- Time measurement
- Time periods, general
- Time record with seconds
- Time stamp
- Time, precision