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This stylebook addresses the style questions that seem to crop up most often in our publications. Please use it and the SIM Word List as your first reference.
Use Words Into Type and The Chicago Manual of Style as supplemental guides to grammar, punctuation, and usage. Those books should be available in your department. Webster's Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary is the primary reference source. For words not listed in Webster's Eleventh, refer to Webster's Third New International Dictionary (unabridged). See the Spelling section of this style guide for more information about these dictionaries.
Sections in this style guide are arranged alphabetically, and each subject section contains rules and examples.
If you have questions about SIMStylebook.com, please e-mail SIM copy chief Jennifer Speer Ramundt.
Abbreviations
• Capitalization
• Company Names
• Dates and Times
• Degrees and Certifications
• Periods
• Plurals
• Spaces
Addresses
• State abbreviations
• Street abbreviations
• Stand-alone cities
Book reviews
Buying guides/resources
Capitalization
• Acronyms
• After colons
• Directions and regions
• Heads and titles
• Names
• Websites
• Zones
Captions
• Directionals
Colors and hyphens
• Products and project instructions
Computer commands
• InDesign
• Microsoft Word
• Downloads
Contractions
Covers
• For designers
Credits, names (attribution)
• Photographers
• Illustrators
• Field editors
• Writers
• Copy Editors
• Order of credits
• Credits style
• Uniform story credit guidelines
Dashes
Foreign words
• Accent marks
• Translation help
Hyphens
• Line-break rules
• Prefixes
• Suffixes
Lists
Measurements
Nonsexist writing
Numbers
• Figures to represent numbers
• Words to represent numbers
• Telephone numbers
Overused words and phrases
Page basics
• End boxes
• Jump lines
• Line breaks
• Running titles
Plurals
Positive expressions
Possessives
• Descriptive words
Problem rules and words
• Easily confused words
• Suffix -ed
Quotes and Quotation marks
Redundancies
Spelling
Styles
Symbols
Titles
Trademarks
• List of common trademarks
• SIM trademarks
Websites
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