Identity Guidelines

Editorial Style Guide

M

midterm

minor
Lowercase minor. See degrees.

money
Delete excess numerals when you have a round dollar amount:

$10, NOT $10.00
She won $10.
NOT She won $10 dollars.

Use figures with million and billion, except in casual references.

The building cost $3.5 million.
BUT I’d like to win a billion dollars.

EXCEPTION: In graphs or charts, you may use decimals and zeros.

months
Capitalize the names of months in all uses.

When a month is used with a specific date, abbreviate only Jan., Feb., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov. and Dec.

When a phrase lists only a month and a year, do not separate the year with commas; in these instances, do not abbreviate the month—spell it out. When a phrase refers to a month, day and year, set off the year with commas. See also dates.

He was born Saturday, Aug. 11, 2007, at Methodist Hospital.
Feb. 1, 1996
February 1996
NOT February, 1996
NOT Feb. 1996

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