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8: Names and Terms
- Overview
- Personal Names
- General Principles
- 8.3Personal names—additional resources
- 8.4Capitalization of personal names
- 8.5Names with particles
- 8.6Hyphenated and extended names
- Non-English Names in an English Context
- Titles and Offices
- 8.18Titles and offices—the general rule
- 8.19Exceptions to the general rule
- 8.20Titles used in apposition
- 8.21Civil titles
- 8.22Titles of sovereigns and other rulers
- 8.23Military titles
- 8.24Quasi-military titles
- 8.25Religious titles
- 8.26Corporate and organizational titles
- 8.27Academic titles
- 8.28Other academic designations
- 8.29Descriptive titles
- 8.30Civic and academic honors
- 8.31Titles of nobility
- 8.32Honorifics
- Epithets, Kinship Names, and Personifications
- 8.33Epithets (or nicknames) and bynames
- 8.34Epithets as names of characters
- 8.35Kinship names
- 8.36Personifications
- Ethnic, Socioeconomic, and Other Groups
- 8.37Ethnic and national groups and associated adjectives
- 8.38Compound nationalities
- 8.39Color
- 8.40Class
- 8.41Generation
- 8.42Physical characteristics
- Names of Places
- Parts of the World
- 8.44Continents, countries, cities, oceans, and such
- 8.45Points of the compass
- 8.46Regions of the world and national regions
- 8.47Popular place-names or epithets
- 8.48Urban areas
- 8.49Real versus metaphorical names
- Political Divisions
- Topographical Divisions
- 8.52Mountains, rivers, and the like
- 8.53Generic terms for geographic entities
- 8.54Foreign terms for geographic entities
- Public Places and Major Structures
- Words Derived from Proper Names
- Names of Organizations
- Governmental Bodies
- 8.61Legislative and deliberative bodies
- 8.62Administrative bodies
- 8.63Judicial bodies
- 8.64Government entities that are lowercased
- Political and Economic Organizations and Movements
- 8.65Organizations, parties, alliances, and so forth
- 8.66Adherents of unofficial political groups and movements
- Institutions and Companies
- Associations
- Historical and Cultural Terms
- Periods
- 8.70Numerical designations for periods
- 8.71Descriptive designations for periods
- 8.72Traditional period names
- 8.73Cultural periods
- Events
- 8.74Historical events and programs
- 8.75Speeches
- 8.76Meteorological and other natural phenomena
- 8.77Sporting events
- Cultural Movements and Styles
- Acts, Treaties, and Government Programs
- Legal Cases
- Awards
- Oaths and Pledges
- Academic Subjects, Courses of Study, and Lecture Series
- Calendar and Time Designations
- Religious Names and Terms
- Deities and Revered Persons
- 8.90Deities
- 8.91Alternative names
- 8.92Prophets and the like
- 8.93Platonic ideas
- 8.94Pronouns referring to religious figures
- Religious Groups
- 8.95Major religions
- 8.96Denominations, sects, orders, and religious movements
- 8.97“Church” as institution
- 8.98Generic versus religious terms
- 8.99Religious jurisdictions
- 8.100Buildings
- 8.101Councils, synods, and the like
- Religious Writings
- 8.102Scriptures
- 8.103Other names and versions for bibles
- 8.104Books of the Bible
- 8.105Sections of the Bible
- 8.106Prayers, creeds, and such
- Religious Events, Concepts, Services, and Objects
- Military Terms
- Forces and Troops
- Wars, Revolutions, Battles, and Campaigns
- Military Awards
- Names of Ships and Other Vehicles
- Scientific Terminology
- Scientific Names of Plants and Animals
- 8.118Scientific style—additional resources
- 8.119Genus and specific epithet
- 8.120Abbreviation of genus name
- 8.121Subspecies and varieties
- 8.122Unspecified species and varieties
- 8.123Author names
- 8.124Plant hybrids
- 8.125Higher divisions
- 8.126English derivatives
- Vernacular Names of Plants and Animals
- 8.127Plants and animals—additional resources
- 8.128Domestic animals and horticultural categories
- 8.129Horticultural cultivars
- Genetic Terms
- Geological Terms
- 8.133Geological terms—additional resources
- 8.134Formal versus generic geological terms
- 8.135Stratigraphy
- Astronomical Terms
- 8.136Astronomical terms—additional resources
- 8.137Celestial bodies
- 8.138Catalog names for celestial objects
- 8.139“Earth”
- 8.140“Sun” and “moon”
- 8.141Descriptive terms
- Medical Terms
- 8.142Medical terms—additional resources
- 8.143Diseases, procedures, and such
- 8.144Infections
- 8.145Drugs
- Physical and Chemical Terms
- Brand Names and Trademarks
- Titles of Works
- Capitalization, Punctuation, and Italics
- 8.155Capitalization of titles of works—general principles
- 8.156Principles and examples of sentence-style capitalization
- 8.157Principles of headline-style capitalization
- 8.158Examples of headline-style capitalization
- 8.159Hyphenated compounds in headline-style titles
- 8.160Titles containing quotations
- 8.161Italics versus quotation marks for titles
- 8.162Subtitle capitalization
- 8.163Permissible changes to titles
- 8.164Titles in relation to surrounding text
- 8.165Double titles connected by “or”
- Books and Periodicals
- 8.166Treatment of book and periodical titles
- 8.167An initial “a,” “an,” or “the” in book titles
- 8.168An initial “the” in periodical titles
- 8.169“Magazine” and other descriptive terms
- 8.170Periodical titles in awards, buildings, and so forth
- 8.171Italicized terms and titles within titles
- 8.172Title not interchangeable with subject
- 8.173Multivolume works
- 8.174Series and editions
- Articles in Periodicals and Parts of a Book
- 8.175Articles, stories, chapters, and so on
- 8.176Collected works
- 8.177Terms like “foreword,” “preface,” and so on
- 8.178Numbered chapters, parts, and so on
- Poems and Plays
- 8.179Titles of poems
- 8.180Poems referred to by first line
- 8.181Titles of plays
- 8.182Divisions of plays or poems
- Pamphlets and Reports
- Unpublished Works
- Movies, Television, and Radio
- Electronic Publications
- Musical Works
- 8.188Musical works—additional resources
- 8.189Operas, songs, and the like
- 8.190Instrumental works
- 8.191Opus numbers
- 8.192Recordings
- Works of Art and Exhibitions
- Signs and Mottoes
