Index to the Style Manual Please use the following style guide established by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. If you have questions that aren’t addressed here, or if you find errors in this manual, or if you have a suggestion about clearer usage, please contact Brian Simpson ( bsimpson@jhsph.edu). a.k.a
Abbreviations
—of ordinal numbers (first, second...)
Academic degrees
—bachelor/bachelor's, master/master's
—capitalization and punctuation of
—years of graduation
Accent marks
Acronym of the School's name
Acronyms
Acronyms, Johns Hopkins University Schools and Divisions
Acronyms, plural forms
Address of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Addresses, interdepartmental
Adjectives, compound —see . . .
—Centuries
—Numerals in compound adjectives
—Hyphenation
Adverbs
—in compounds
—no hyphen with well or -ly
Ages of people
AIDS victims, diabetics, etc.— see Disabled
Alumni, alumnus
Alumni, graduation years
a.m., p.m.
America, American
Ampersand (&)
Apostrophes
As follows and use of colon—see To introduce a list
Bachelor vs Bachelor's
Biannually, bimonthly, biweekly
Billion, million
Black and white
Bloomberg School, the
Bloomberg School of Public Health
breastfed, breastfeed, breastfeeding (sp.)
Building, the Wolfe Street — Official name
Bulleted lists—see Lists, vertical
bushmeat (sp.)
Campuses of JHU—Capitalization of
Capitalization
— and the colon
— of Johns Hopkins entities
— of the School's departments
Captions for photos
casework (sp.)
cellphone (sp.)
Centuries
Chair, chairman, chairwoman
classwork (sp.)
Collective nouns, plural forms
Colons
—and capitalization
—and quotation marks
—spaces after
—used to separate hours and minutes
Commas
—no comma before Jr., Sr., etc.
—and degrees
—and quotation marks
—within large numbers
Compass points, capitalization of
Complement, compliment
Compliment, complement
Compound modifiers—Hyphenation
coursework (sp.)
Courtesy titles (Dr., Prof., Ms., etc.)
Criterion, Criteria
Curriculum, Curricula
Curriculum Vita, Curriculum Vitae
Dashes
dataset (sp.)
Dates
Datum, Data
daycare (sp.)
Days of the week
Decades
Degrees, academic
—bachelor/bachelor's, master/master's
—capitalization and punctuation of
—years of graduation
Department names—Capitalization of
desktop publishing (sp.)
developing/developed world—see America, american
diabetics—see Put the person before the illness
Disabled, the
disk (sp.) (not disc; exception is disc jockey)
distance education, distance learning (sp.) (without a hyphen in all uses)
Divisions of the University—Official names
Dollar amounts
Dr., when to use—see Courtesy titles
Eastern Daylight Time
Eastern Standard Time
e.g. and i.e.
Elderly, the
Ellipses
Em dash
email (sp.)
Email signatures
emergency department (sp.) (not emergency room)
Emeritus, emeriti
En dash
Endowed professorships
Ethnic terms
every other—see Biannually
fax, faxing, faxed (sp.) (all lower-case letters unless starting a sentence)
Female, male
field trip (sp.)
fieldwork (sp.)
following, the, and use of the colon—see When introducing a list
Foreign words
Fractions
fundraising (sp.)
Genderless language
Geographic designations—Capitalization of
Graduation years of alumni
ground water (sp.) (But: wastewater)
Handicapped
hard copy (sp.)
He, him, his—alternatives to
Headlines and headings
—Capitalizations in
—numerals in
health care (sp.)
homepage (sp.)
Honorary Committee, the School's (now the International Honorary Committee)
hotlink (sp.)
Hours and minutes
Hygiene Building / Wolfe Street Building
Hyphen, suspended
Hyphenated nouns, plural forms
Hyphenation
Inc., Ltd.
i.e. and e.g.
in-depth, in-service (sp.) (hyphenates before a noun)
information superhighway (sp.)
Initials in names
Interdepartmental addresses
Internet (sp.) (always capitalize)
Italics
—when to italicize non-English words
—italics versus quotation marks
—italicize words used as words
Johns Hopkins University
—Acronyms
—Names to be capitalized
—Malaria Institute
—Medical Institutions
—Official division names
—Shortened forms of names
Jr., Sr., III —no comma befor or after
Last—avoid when refering to a past event
Letters, single—Plural forms
lifestyle (sp.)
Lists
—bulleted vs numbered
—in running copy
—parallelism of items
—punctuation within
log on (sp.)
-ly—see If modifier precedes noun or verb
Malaria Institute, official name
Male, female—see Man, woman
Man, woman
Master vs. Master's
Media, Medium
Memorandum, Memoranda
Midnight, noon
Millennium, Millennia, Millenniums
Million, billion
Minutes, hours
Miss, Mrs., when to use—see Nonsexist language
Money
Month-day-year citations
mosquitoes (sp.)
Mrs., when to use—see Nonsexist language
Ms., when to use—see Courtesy titles
Names and titles—Capitalization of
Name of the Wolfe Street Building, official
Name of the School, official
Names, initials in
No. (as in No. 1 )
Nondiscriminatory language
Nonsexist language
Noon, midnight
North America
Nouns—Plural forms
—acronyms
—collective nouns
—hyphenated nouns
—special plural forms (data/datum, etc.)
Number one
Numbers—see Numerals
Numerals
—as nouns
—commas in
—in headlines
—plural forms
—ranges of
—spelling out
—very large
Official name of the School
online (sp.)
Ordinal numbers—Abbreviations of
p.m., a.m.
Parentheses
people with AIDS, diabetes, etc—see Disability and illness
Percent and percent sign
Percentages, ranges of
Periods
—and a person's initials
—and acronyms
—and quotation marks
—spaces after
Photographs, captions for—see Captions
Plural forms of some particular words
policymaker (sp.)
Position or rank—see Number One
Possessives
Postal abbreviations of state names
Prefixes, hyphenation and
Prepositions, ending sentences with
Press releases
—no serial comma in
Prime and double prime—see Smart Quotes
Prof., when to use
Professor emeritus
Professorships, endowed
Question marks
Quotation marks
—and the comma, period, colon, semicolon
—block quotations
—book titles, etc.
—use for irony
—versus italics
Race and ethnicity
Ranges of numbers and years—see En dash
Rank or position—see Number One
Relative pronouns (that/which, who/whom)
resumé (sp.) (the original French word has another accent over the first e, but English pronunciation does not reflect that accent)
Room numbers
School—When to capitalize
School's acronym, the
School's address, the
School's name, official acronym of
School's official name, the
Seasons, the
Sexist language—see Nonsexist language
Signatures, email
Smart Quotes—see Alumni, graduation years; Quotation marks
Seniors, senior citizens
Spaces after period
Spaces after colon
Spelling
—use American spelling
—preferred spellings
State names
—when to use postal abbreviations
—when to use standard abbreviations
Statistically significant
Symposium, Symposia
Telephone numbers
That, which
The and Johns Hopkins
they, them, their—see He, him, his
Third World—see America
Time of day
Titles and names—Capitalization
Titles, courtesy
URLs (Internet addresses)
twice a—see Biannually
Underlining
United States, abbreviation of
Units of measure
voicemail (sp.)
Washington, D.C.
wastewater (sp.) (But: ground water)
Web, the [World Wide] (sp.) (Note capitalization)
Web Team (sp.) (Note capitalization)
webcast (sp.)
webpage (sp.)
webmaster (sp.)
website (sp.)
Week, days of the
Well—no hyphen when used in compound adjectives
Wheelchair-bound
Who, whom
-wide
Wolfe Street Building / Hygiene Building
World Wide Web (sp.) (Note capitalization)
woman, man—see Male, female
WWW (sp.) (Note capitalization)
Years, ranges of
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