SIMStylebook.com - Better Homes and Gardens® Special Interest Media Stylebook and Resources

SIMSTYLEBOOK.COM - Better Homes and Gardens® Special Interest Media

Changes in SIM style

• Wine rule revised (10/10/06)

• masa harina (tortilla flour) (9/28/06)

• cell phone (n, adj) (9/26/06)

• Partial ingredients no longer italicized in
food instructions copy. (8/28/06)

• Singulars and Plurals rule updated in food style section (8/16/06)

• Computer commands section updated
with Adobe InDesign commands (7/6/06)

• pom-pom (all uses) (7/6/06)

• pearl cotton: except in Quilting titles,
where it's perle cotton (7/6/06)

• tea-dyeing (7/6/06)

• terry cloth (n, adj) (7/6/06)

• Venise lace (7/6/06)

• lampshade (7/6/06)

• facelift (7/6/06)

• microwave acceptable as noun
(5/25/06)

• single quotation marks in headlines (4/12/06)

• "see above" in resources (4/12/06)

• crabapple (one word per A–Z and industry standards) (3/27/06)

• waterlily (one word per A–Z and industry standards) (3/27/06)

• Generally, lowercase rose types (floribunda rose, 'Mr. Philby' hybrid tea rose) unless the name is a proper noun (David Austin roses, English roses) or to avoid confusion (Use Old Garden roses to create a beautiful arrangement.). (3/27/06)

• Always credit field editors in first-use material. In pickup, the editor can decide whether to credit the field editor. A general guideline is to credit field editors when you pick up a full location, but not when you pick up a partial location for a compilation story. (3/16/06)

• wallcovering (11/17/05)

• health care (n)
• health-care (adj)

• country French
(Not French country.)

• Revised field editor credits rule
for pickup copy. (3/13/06)

Additions to SIMStylebook.com

• Knitting, crocheting, tatting abbreviations (4/17/09)

• Scrapbooks style exceptions (9/17/08)

• Tae Kwon Do, Tai Chi (capped)
(4/13/07)

• Quilting style exceptions (4/10/07)

• Susan G. Komen for the Cure (formerly Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation) (2/1/07)

• Komen Race for the Cure (2/1/07)

• Ph.D. (8/10/06)

• M.D. (medical doctor—use periods)

• knotty pine (n, adj) (4/27/06)

• ISSNs (4/12/06)

• postal ID language (4/12/06)

• soymilk (3/14/06)

• British Colonial (11/24/05)

• French Colonial (11/24/05)

• bowfront
One word, no hyphen.

• houndstooth
One word, no hyphen.

• pre-diabetes
Hyphenate it.

• blood glucose
(Not blood sugar.)

• meal plan
(Not eating plan.)