Is “the” capitalized?
This post currently refers to Chicago style only. Entities and Places Companies and institutions Lowercase “the” in running text, even …
This post currently refers to Chicago style only. Entities and Places Companies and institutions Lowercase “the” in running text, even …
The following guidelines are taken from Chicago Manual of Style only. (CMS 16 | CMS 17) Skip to: Capitalization of …
Colors are supposed to follow the basic hyphenation rule: hyphenate adjectives before a noun, but not after. (Read more …
Skip to Quick Glance, Deeper Details, ante, anti**, auto, bi, bio, co**, counter, de, dis, extra, -fold, geo, hydro, hyper, …
Skip to | Compound Rules | Adjective Hyphen Rules | after | away | book- | -book | class | …
Skip to rules for | Letter-by-letter | Word-by-word | Comparison table | Exception: first/middle initials | Case | Punctuation | …
Skip to grand / great / aunts and uncles: great or grand? / step / in-law. CMS and AP agree …
Quick glance Ed Smith’s house, the Smiths, the Smiths’ house. But when name ends in s or z: Ed Jones’s …
In general, Chicago likes to spell numbers out, and AP likes to use numerals. The following is for nontechnical material, …
Number Spans, a.k.a. Number Ranges, Inclusive Numbers, Continuing Numbers Quick glance CMS: use en dash 64–68 AP: use hyphen …
Skip to | Numbered Streets | N E S W | Intersections | Highways | Numbered Streets CMS spells …
Skip to | Date formatting | Abbreviations | BC and AD | Year spans | Centuries | Decades | “In …
Proper spelling, punctuation, and capitalization of U.S. holidays and notable days Chicago Manual of Style 16 (books) and AP Stylebook …
Quick glance CMS 17: in the US and US intervention (noun and adjective) CMS 16: in the United States …
States—spell out or abbreviate? Both CMS and AP agree, spell out state names within text. Abbreviate state names in lists, …
Skip to | e-terms | net terms | web terms | other terms | iPhone, eBay, etc. | web vs. …
Black=Chicago and AP agree. Blue=Chicago only. Orange=AP only. AP: Sentence-style capitalization for headlines If you are writing a news headline, …
About [sic] [sic] signifies that a word is quoted exactly as stated in the original, despite an obvious error. The …
Chicago Manual of Style follows this dictionary: Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition (I abbreviate this as MW11 throughout this …
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