- CATEGORY INDEX -

This page lists some useful Style Manual entry categories, with links to each entry:

PUNCTUATION

FIGURES

GRAMMAR

FORMATTING

AWARDS & CEREMONIES

PUNCTUATION

ACCENT MARKS

APOSTROPHE

ASTERISK, DAGGER

BRACKETS

BULLETS, PUNCTUATION OF

COLON

COMMA

DASH

ELLIPSIS

EXCLAMATION POINT

HYPHEN

ITALIC

PARENTHESES

PERIOD

PULL QUOTES

PUNCTUATION, MULTIPLE

QUESTION MARK

QUOTATION MARKS

SEMICOLON

FIGURES      [TOP]

FIGURES

FRACTIONS

half

LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET

NUMBERS

ORDINAL NUMBERS

ROMAN NUMERALS

GRAMMAR      [TOP]

ABBREVIATIONS

ACRONYMS

ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS, PUNCTUATION OF

AGES OF PERSONS, ANIMALS, AND THINGS

AGREEMENT, SUBJECT-VERB

APPOSITION

CAPITALIZATION

COLLECTIVES AS SINGULAR OR PLURAL

COMPARISONS

DIVISION OF WORDS

INDIRECT DISCOURSE

NUMBER, GRAMMATICAL

PLURALS

POSSESSIVES

PREPOSITIONS

SERIES

SPLIT INFINITIVE

SYLLABIFICATION

TENSES

FORMATTING      [TOP]

ACADEMIC DEGREES

ARTICLE REFERENCES

AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER NOTE

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

BOOK REFERENCES

BYLINES

CHAPTERS OF BOOKS

CONTENTS PAGE

CONTINUED NOTE

CREDITS

CREDITS: SPECIES IDENTIFICATION

DIMENSIONS

DIRECTIONALS IN LEGENDS AND TEXTBLOCKS

EDITOR'S NOTE

FOOTNOTES

HYPHEN

MAGAZINES

MAP CREDITS

MAP DE FACTO POLICY

MAP REFERENCES

MAP STYLE

MOVIES AND DOCUMENTARY FILMS

MUSIC LYRICS

MUSIC NOTES

MUSIC TITLES

NEWSPAPERS

PAGE REFERENCES

PAGINATION

PHOTOGRAPHS

PRONUNCIATION

PUNCTUATION, TYPEFACES

QUOTATIONS

RUNNING FEET

SHORT STORIES

SIGNS

SLOGANS

SPELLING

SYLLABIFICATION

TITLES OF ART, LITERARY, & MUSICAL WORKS

TITLES OF ARTICLES

TITLES OF PERSONS

TITLES OF SPEECHES

TRADEMARKS

WORDS AS WORDS

AWARDS & CEREMONIES      [TOP]

AWARDS AND MEDALS

Medal of Honor

Presidential Medal of Freedom

Academy Awards

Emmy Emmys Emmy Award

Ellie, Ellies, Ellie Award

NGS

Contributing Photographers-in-Residence Pgm.

DEPARTMENTS (NGS)

EDITOR'S NOTE

Explorer-in-Residence Program

GEOGRAPHICA

Grosvenor

local-language editions

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

Online titles (National Geographic)

PAGINATION

PHOTOGRAPHS

Radio Expeditions

TELEVISION (NGS)

Yellow Border, Yellow Border Design

LEGAL      [TOP]

BYLINES

COPYRIGHT

CREDITS

FAIR USE

TRADEMARKS

FORMS OF ADDRESS, TITLES      [TOP]

APPELLATIONS AND EPITHETS

brother, sister

Dr., Drs. | Jr., Sr., III | Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms.

Monsieur M., Madame Mme, Mademoiselle Mlle

Señor, Señora, Señorita | quinceañera

FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS

INITIALS

NAMES

NICKNAMES OF PERSONS

President, Presidency, presidential

RELATIONSHIPS OF INDIVIDUALS

TITLES OF PERSONS

Vice President, Vice Presidency, vice presidential

admiral | vice admiral | captain

MILITARY      [TOP]

AIR FORCE

armed forces, armed services | special forces

ARMY

battalion

Coast Guard

MARINE CORPS

MILITARY UNITS

NAVY

Ranger, Rangers

SEAL, SEALs

TITLES OF PERSONS

REGIONS      [TOP]

Asia, Asian | West Asia

China, Taiwan

Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast, Ivoirian

EUROPE, GEOGRAPHICAL AND POLITICAL

INDIA: PLACE-NAMES

Middle East, Near East

republic of Georgia

Serbia and Montenegro

United States

Yucatán

LANGUAGES      [TOP]

ARABIC LANGUAGE, TRANSLITERATION OF

Bantu languages, people

CHINESE NAMES AND TERMS

FOREIGN TERMS

HAWAIIAN TERMS

INDIA: PERSONAL NAMES

JAPANESE PERSONAL NAMES

KOREAN PLACE-NAMES

LANGUAGE AND DIALECT

RUSSIAN LANGUAGE, TRANSLITERATION OF

SURNAMES: PORTUGUESE

SURNAMES: SPANISH

TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION

ETHNICITY      [TOP]

AMERICAN INDIANS, NORTH AND SOUTH

Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian

British, Briton, English, England

Dalit, Dalits

endemic, indigenous, native

French Canadian, French-Canadian

High Holiday, High Holy Day,  holidays

Hispanic, Latino, Chicano

Inuk, Inuit

JEW, HEBREW

JEWISH HOLIDAYS

Lakota

Lao, Laotian

Maasai, Masai

Madagascan, Malagasy

Philippine, Filipino, Filipina

Scot, Scottish, Scotch

tribe, tribal

Uygur, Uygurs

Wari, Huari