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Abbreviations and Acronyms

In General
Abbreviations and Acronyms in Headlines
Acronyms That Stand Alone
Articles with Abbreviations and Acronyms
Degrees

Abbreviations of Boulder Campus Degrees
Graduation Year with Degree

I.E. and E.G.
Plurals of Abbreviations and Acronyms
State Abbreviations
United States

Addresses

Abbreviations
Address Order
Bar Codes
Building Names
Campus Box Numbers

Capitalization

In General

A Note on Capitalization
Do Not Capitalize
The Case for Lowercase

Academic and Nonacademic Units and Bodies
Committee, Center, Group, Program, and Initiative Names
Course Titles
Degrees
Department Names
Geographical and Related Terms
Grades
Job and Position Titles

Long Titles
Descriptive Job Titles
Occupational Descriptions
Titles in Addresses

Publication and Other Titles
Seasons and Semesters
Structures and Places
Students
Trademarks
The University

A Couple of Analogies

Copyright

CU Copyright Statement

CU Names

CU and Its Campuses

References to CU Campuses
CU Colleges and Schools
Boulder campus
Coloradp Springs campus
Denver campus
Health Sciences campus

Dates

Graduation Dates
Inclusive Dates
Punctuation with Dates

Dictionaries

Graphic Standards

The University of Colorado Seal
The Interlocking CU Lettermark
CU Colors
Stationery Items
Boulder Campus Visual Identity

Inclusive Writing

In General
Sex and Gender
Age
Disability
Race and Ethnicity
Sexual Orientation
Stereotypes

Letter Format

Lists

Lists within Sentences
Vertical Lists

Names and Titles

Degrees with Names
Government Programs
Names for Racial and Ethnic Origins
Names with Initials
Names with Job Titles
Names with Suffixes
Publications, Presentations, and Reports

Nondiscrimination Statements

Numbers

In General
Adjacent Numbers
Dates
Footnote Numbers
Inclusive Numbers
Metric Measures
Money
More Than One Kind of Number in a Sentence
Multiple Numbers in a Sentence
Ordinal Numbers
Room Numbers
Social Security Numbers
Telephone Numbers
Time
Years and Decades

Proofreader's and Editor's Symbols

Punctuation

In General
Apostrophes
Colons
Commas
Dashes
Ellipses
Hyphens
Periods
Quotation Marks
Semicolons

Reference Sources

Books
Online Sources

Tricky Grammar and Language Use

Collective Nouns
Miscellaneous Tricksters
Prepositions at the End of Sentences
Split Infinitives
That/Which
Their

Word List

World Wide Web Style

Web Reading Habits
Writing for the Web
Capitalization of Electronic World Names
Copyright on the Web
Punctuation in Web-related Copy
URLs and E-mail Addresses

Please direct questions or comments about this style guide to Linda Besen at 303-735-0229 or linda.besen@colorado.edu.

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