[U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual] [Contents] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov] Contents -------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter Page About This Manual ........................................... v GPO's Online Initiatives ................................... ix 1. Advice to Authors and Editors ................................... 1 2. General Instructions ............................................ 7 3. Capitalization Rules ........................................... 27 4. Capitalization Examples ........................................ 43 5. Spelling ....................................................... 79 6. Compounding Rules .............................................. 95 7. Compounding Examples .......................................... 109 8. Punctuation ................................................... 193 9. Abbreviations and Letter Symbols .............................. 221 Standard word abbreviations................................... 238 Standard letter symbols for units of measure ................. 247 Standard Latin abbreviations.................................. 251 Information technology acronyms and initialisms .............. 255 10. Signs and Symbols.............................................. 259 11. Italic ........................................................ 265 12. Numerals ...................................................... 269 13. Tabular Work................................................... 281 14. Leaderwor ..................................................... 299 15. Footnotes, Indexes, Contents, and Outlines .................... 303 16. Datelines, Addresses, and Signatures........................... 309 17. Useful Tables ................................................. 321 U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents .......................... 321 Most Populous U.S. Cities by State............................ 32 2 Principal Foreign ............................................ 325 Demonyms: Names of Nationalities ............................. 332 Currency ..................................................... 334 Metric and U.S. Measures ..................................... 339 Common Measures and Their Metric Equivalents ................. 340 Measurement Conversion ....................................... 341 18. Geologic Terms and Geographic Divisions ....................... 343 19. Congressional Record .......................................... 371 Congressional Record Index .................................... 406 20. Reports and Hearings .......................................... 417 Index ......................................................... 433