The IBM Style Guide: Conventions for Writers and Editors [Paperback]

Foreword     xviii
About this publication     xxi
Acknowledgments     xxii
About the authors     xxiv
Chapter 1 Language and grammar     1
Abbreviations     1
  General guidelines     1
  Spelled-out forms of abbreviations     3
  Periods with abbreviations     5
  Latin abbreviations     6
  Abbreviations in headings and titles     7
  Abbreviations in glossaries     7
  Abbreviations in indexes     7
  Abbreviations for units of time     8
Anthropomorphism     8
Articles     10
Capitalization     11
  Capitalization styles     11
  Capitalization and abbreviations     13
  Capitalization and colons     14
  Capitalization and figures     14
  Capitalization in general text     14
  Capitalization in glossaries     16
  Capitalization in headings and titles   &nbsplc!