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IBM Style Guide, The: Conventions for Writers and Editors
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IBM Style Guide, The: Conventions for Writers and Editors

by Francis DeRespinis, Peter Hayward, Jana Jenkins, Amy Laird, Leslie McDonald, Eric Radzinski
October 2011
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
8h 15m
English
IBM Press
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Contents

Foreword

About this publication

Acknowledgments

About the authors

Chapter 1 Language and grammar

Abbreviations

General guidelines

Spelled-out forms of abbreviations

Periods with abbreviations

Latin abbreviations

Abbreviations in headings and titles

Abbreviations in glossaries

Abbreviations in indexes

Abbreviations for units of time

Anthropomorphism

Articles

Capitalization

Capitalization styles

Capitalization and abbreviations

Capitalization and colons

Capitalization and figures

Capitalization in general text

Capitalization in glossaries

Capitalization in headings and titles

Capitalization and hyphens

Capitalization in indexes

Capitalization in interfaces

Capitalization of letters as letters

Capitalization in lists

Capitalization for ...

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