Index
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References are to paragraph numbers except where specified as table or figure (fig.).
- da (Portuguese particle), 8.9
- daggers and double daggers (symbols), 3.80, 13.28, 13.52
- DAISY Accessible Publishing Knowledge Base, 1.64
- dances, 8.196
- dangling terms
- gerunds, 5.120
- infinitives, 5.113
- participles, 5.119
- Danish language, 11.77
- DAs (designer’s alterations), 2.140
- dashes
- length of, compared, 6.79
- marking manuscripts for, 2.101
- vs. parentheses, 6.101
- preceding epigraph source, 1.41
- 2-em dashes, 2.101, 6.79, 6.99, 7.69, 12.70
- typing, in manuscript preparation, 2.17
- See also em dashes; en dashes; hyphens and hyphenation; punctuation; 3-em dashes
- data, as singular or plural, 5.16, 5.254
- data cells. See tables
- data falsification, 1.100
- databases
- accession numbers for, 14.113, 14.157, 14.171
- bibliographic, 13.72, 13.78
- and copyright issues, 4.59, 4.60
- dissertations and theses in, 4.64
- and electronic rights, 4.113
- hyperlinks to, 1.95, 1.105, 1.118
- institutional repositories, 4.64, 4.66, 4.69, 14.113
- legal, 14.171, 14.177, 14.202
- literary journals in, 1.2
- metadata in, 1.84, 1.101, 13.78
- in place of indexes, 1.119–20
- publishers’ rights, 4.111
- search for copyright owners via, 4.86
- in source citations: author-date reference system of, 14.157; for dissertations and theses, 14.113; legal-style citations, 14.171, 14.177; for magazine articles, 14.87; names vs. URLs for, 13.8, 13.10, 14.60, 14.64, 14.72; for news articles, 14.89; permalinks for, 13.8; resources on, 14.157; scientific, 14.157; shortened citations, 14.177
- datasets, 1.87, 1.124, 14.86, 14.157
- date of download. See access dates
- date of publication. See publication dates
- dates
- abbreviations for: months, 10.44, 14.89, 14.122; years, 9.32, 9.66
- adjectival use of, 5.87
- alphabetizing, 15.73
- ambiguity in, 6.115, 9.36–37
- centuries (see centuries)
- of copyright, 1.21, 1.24–26, 14.41
- decades, 9.35
- in diaries, 1.58
- editorial doubt in, 6.72
- fiscal year (FY), 9.66
- in foreword, 1.45
- formats for: all-numeral styles, 6.115, 9.37–38; day-month-year, fig. 1.9, 6.41, 6.115, 9.37, 14.122; month-day-year, 6.41, 6.115, 9.37, 14.122; year-month-day (ISO), 6.41, 6.115, 9.38, 9.42
- holidays, 8.90
- inclusive, 6.83–84, 9.36, 9.62, 9.66, 14.19, 14.43
- in legal-style citations: for acts and treaties, 14.191; for bills and resolutions, 14.184; for cases and court decisions, 14.177, 14.180, 14.195, 14.200; for hearings, 14.185; for international entities, 14.207; for legislation, 14.183, 14.189, 14.196, 14.202; for legislative debates and hearings, 14.186–88, 14.203; regnal years, 14.202
- money with, 9.27
- months (see months)
- numbers in (see under numbers)
- of in, 5.254
- punctuation with: commas, 5.87, 6.17, 6.41, 9.56; en dashes, 6.83–84, 14.19, 14.43; hyphens, 6.115, 9.38; periods, 6.14; slashes, 6.114–15, 6.121, 9.66
- ranges: inclusive, 6.83–84, 9.36, 9.62, 9.66, 14.19, 14.43; ongoing, 6.84
- in source citations: access dates, 13.15, 14.73, 14.104, 14.131, 14.135, 14.157; for interviews, 14.108, 14.111; for manuscript collections, 14.122; for multimedia content (recording, performance, or release dates), 14.161, 14.163, 14.169; for patents, 14.158; for unpublished materials, 14.111. See also in legal-style citations above
- in titles of works, 13.95
- work period known (fl.), 10.48
- years (see years)
- See also periods of time; publication dates; time designations
- day-month-year date format, fig. 1.9, 6.41, 6.115, 9.37, 14.122
- days of the week, 8.89, 10.45. See also dates; time designations
- de, as prefix, 7.96 (sec. 4)
- de, d’, de la, du, 8.8, 8.10, 8.12, 15.92
- dead (foul) copy or proofs, 2.110, 2.115
- deadlines
- indexing, 15.4, 15.109
- proofreading, 2.107
- publication schedule, 2.2, figs. 2.1–2
- deadnames, 13.84, 15.42
- Deaf, deaf people, 8.44. See also American Sign Language
- DeafBlind, deafblind people, 8.44, 11.135
- debates, source citations for, 14.187–88, 14.203
- decades, 9.35
- decimal markers, 9.57
- decimal points
- in celestial coordinates, 10.67
- vs. double and multiple numbering, 1.63n1
- in global positioning coordinates, 10.41
- with millions, billions, and such, 9.9, 9.26
- in monetary amounts, 9.22, 9.24
- periods as, 6.12, 9.57
- in SI style, 9.57–58
- in tables, alignment of, 3.73, 3.87, figs. 3.15–16, fig. 3.21
- and use of zero, 9.21
- See also fractions; periods (punctuation)
- decked heads (spanner heads), 3.54, 3.58, 3.89, fig. 3.12, fig. 3.14, fig. 3.17
- declarative sentences (statements), 5.218, 6.12, 6.72
- dedications, 1.4, 1.7, 1.11, 1.40, 2.4, 15.32
- defective words, 5.151
- definite articles. See articles (definite and indefinite)
- definitions, in text, 7.61, 15.142. See also glossaries
- degree symbol, 9.8, 9.18, 10.41, 10.55, 10.64, 10.67
- degrees (academic). See academic concerns: degrees and affiliations
- degrees (measurement), abbreviations for, 10.55, 10.58, 10.64. See also International System of Units; metric system; units of measurement
- degrees (positive, comparative, superlative). See under adjectives and adverbs
- deictic (demonstrative) pronouns, 5.56
- deities, 8.92–93. See also religions and religious concerns; religious works
- deletions, marking, 2.99–100, 2.129, 2.135, fig. 2.6
- delimiters, 6.108
- demonstrative (deictic) pronouns, 5.56
- denominal verbs, 5.28
- departments
- administrative, 8.64
- capitalization of, 14.88
- in magazines, 8.179, 14.88
- departures from earlier practice
- acknowledgments, placement of in books, 1.4, 1.46–47, 1.65
- adjectives for racial and ethnic groups, capitalization of, 8.1, 8.39
- alphabetization, preferred system of, 13.69, 15.65–66
- Arabic and Roman numerals, capitalization of terms, 9.67
- chapter or part page ranges in source citations, 13.104, 13.106, 13.109, 14.8–9, 14.12, 14.52
- colons, capitalization following, 6.67
- commas after ellipses in quotations, 12.43
- commas between imperative clauses, 6.24–25
- commas with other punctuation, 6.134
- compound modifiers consisting of names, 6.85
- cross-references within reference lists, 14.10
- days of the week as ordinals, 9.33
- generations, capitalization of, 8.43
- German nouns, capitalization of, 7.56
- hyphenated compounds in title case, 8.162
- initial The in periodical titles, 8.165, 8.172, 8.194, 14.69, 14.91
- month or season for journal articles in source citations, 13.26
- multiple authors in source citations, 13.23, 13.35, 13.78, 13.123
- No., Nos. in musical works, 8.197
- numerals beginning sentences, 9.5, 9.31
- places of publication in source citations, 13.22, 14.2, 14.29–30
- plurals of uppercase letters, 7.15, 7.68
- prepositions of more than four letters in titles of works, 8.160
- repeated names in bibliographies, 3-em dash for, 6.100, 13.72
- reverse italics in titles of works, 8.175, 13.97
- self-published books, publishers’ names in citations of, 14.36
- s.v. (sub verbo) in citations of reference works, 14.130
- they, singular, 5.44, 5.51–52, 5.82, 5.265–66
- time zones, capitalization of, 8.91, 10.47
- title case for headline style, 8.158
- titles for people, capitalization of, 8.22
- words derived from proper nouns, capitalization of, 8.62
- dependent (subordinate) clauses
- commas with, 6.26–29
- in complex sentences, 5.226
- in compound-complex sentences, 5.227
- conditional (protases), 5.235
- defined, 5.232
- with different, 5.201
- em dashes with, 6.95
- parallel structure in, 5.249
- quotations as, 12.14
- relative, 3.55, 5.60, 5.64, 5.232–34, 6.29
- remote, 5.64
- subordinating conjunctions with, 5.206–7, 5.232, 6.26, 6.28
- that with, omitting, 5.212, 5.233
- See also relative pronouns
- derivative works
- and copyright issues, 4.14, 4.32, 4.47
- and Creative Commons licenses, 4.72
- and enhanced electronic rights, 4.112
- licenses to make, 4.35
- public-domain works in, 4.23, 4.47
- See also compilations of previously published materials; previously published materials
- describing words. See adjectives
- descriptive grammar, 5.3
- design
- of books, 1.33, 2.3, 2.41, 2.79
- and footnotes vs. endnotes, 13.47
- of journals, 1.93, 1.125
- of tables, 3.87
- templates for, 2.2
- designer’s alterations (DAs), 2.140
- determiners, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9. See also articles (definite and indefinite)
- developmental editing, 2.53, 2.56
- devices. See file formats and devices
- dex (decimal exponent), 9.13
- diacritical marks. See special characters
- diaeresis (Greek), 11.120, 11.123
- diagrams
- fan, 3.47
- genealogical, 1.67, 3.47, fig. 3.11
- wording of, 2.71
- See also charts and graphs; illustrations
- dialect, 5.3, 5.4, 5.28, 5.191, 5.243. See also colloquial usage
- dialogue, 12.39–53
- capitalization in, 7.54, 12.44, 12.49
- in drama, 12.8, 12.48, 12.54–55
- and fair-use doctrine, 4.91
- faltering or incomplete, 6.93, 6.95, 12.43, 12.59, 12.67
- in field notes, 12.58
- indentation in, 12.54
- indirect discourse, 12.53
- interjections in, 5.214
- interrupted, 12.42, 12.44
- in interviews and discussions, 12.56
- nominative pronouns in, 5.70
- in non-English materials, 6.97, 7.55, 11.21, 11.31, 11.34, 11.54, 11.71, 11.110, 12.48
- non-English words and phrases in, 11.4
- and nonfiction conventions, 12.39
- numerals in, 12.51
- paragraphs in, 12.32, 12.40, 12.45, 12.48
- permissible changes to, 12.8
- punctuation in: colons, 6.67, 6.69, 12.48; ellipses, 12.43; em dashes, 6.91, 6.95, 6.97, 11.13, 11.21, 12.42–44, 12.48, 12.52; hyphens, 12.44; parentheses, 12.50, 12.52; quotation marks (see under quotation marks); semicolons, 6.60
- quotations within, 12.30, 12.46
- run-in vs. block quotation style, 12.9
- single-word speech, 12.47
- speaker tags in, 12.40, 12.48
- stuttering in, 12.44
- text messages as, 12.50
- unspoken discourse, 12.49
- See also direct address; quotations; speech
- dialogue tags. See speaker tags
- diamond open access, 4.68, 4.74
- diaries, 1.58. See also correspondence; manuscript collections
- dictionaries
- alphabet tables in, 11.83, 11.100
- alphabetization in, 15.66
- biographical, 8.5, 15.40, 15.79, 15.92
- electronic versions of, 14.131
- and language renewal, 5.267
- legal, 8.83
- matters not found in, 7.4
- music, 7.75, 8.195
- recommended, 2.60, 2.117, 5.254, 7.1
- running heads in, 1.13
- source citations for, 14.130–31
- for spelling, 7.1–2
- See also reference works
- die copy, 1.78, 2.113
- Digital Library Federation, 1.124
- digital object identifiers. See DOIs
- digital printing, 1.31
- digital rights, 4.75, 4.112, 4.113
- digital rights management (DRM), 4.113
- dimensions, 3.27
- diphthongs
- and capitalization, 11.77
- never divided, 7.39, 11.36, 11.45, 11.57, 11.73, 11.117, 11.128
- and special characters, 11.122, 11.134
- and syllables, 11.39, 11.62
- direct address
- in imperative mood, 5.126
- pronouns and antecedents in, 5.33
- punctuation in, 6.57, 6.70
- titles and offices of people in, 8.21, 8.33, 10.18–19
- See also dialogue; quotations; speech
- direct quotations. See block quotations; quotations; run-in quotations
- directional (“smart”) quotation marks and apostrophes, 2.90, 6.123, 6.125, 7.30, 12.7
- directions. See compass points and directions
- directives. See imperative sentences (directives)
- directors’ names, 14.101
- disabilities and abilities, 5.261–62, 8.44, 10.27. See also accessibility
- disciplines and subjects, academic, 7.2, 8.31, 8.86, 8.87. See also academic concerns; scholarly works
- disclaimers, 1.22, 1.35
- discographies, 1.70, 14.162–63
- discussions. See dialogue; direct address; interviews and discussions; personal communications; speech; transcriptions
- display pages, 1.7, 1.11, 1.12, 1.16
- dissertations and theses
- copyright for, 4.64
- in institutional repositories, 4.64, 4.66, 14.113
- microform editions of, 14.17
- source citations for, 14.113
- titles of in text, 8.190
- distance, 7.96 (sec. 1), 10.55. See also metric system; physical quantities; units of measurement
- distribution
- copyright owners’ right of, 4.13
- and Creative Commons licenses, 4.72
- licenses for, 4.35
- publishing agreements on, 4.55
- source citations for, 14.40
- subsidiary rights to, 4.35, 4.80, 4.112
- distributive possessives, 5.25
- distributive pronouns, 5.71
- ditto marks, 3.63
- division of words. See word division
- divisions of books. See books: divisions of
- do, 5.157, 5.158, 5.222, 5.238
- docket numbers, 14.177
- Doctor, Dr., 10.18
- document comparison software, 2.91
- documentation. See source citations
- document-delivery companies, 4.112
- DOIs (digital object identifiers)
- and continuous publishing model, 1.91
- on copyright pages, 1.22, 1.31, 1.37, fig. 1.1
- defined, 1.37, 1.88, 13.7
- for impression numbering, 1.31
- for journal articles, 1.88, 1.91–92, 1.101, 1.112
- in metadata, 1.37, 1.101, 1.124
- and print and electronic publishing model, 13.14
- reference entries, 14.132
- in source citations: for book reviews, 14.100; for books, 14.2, 14.60; vs. database names, 13.10, 14.60, 14.72; for datasets, 14.157; for journal articles, 13.26, 13.110, 14.72, 14.75; vs. permalinks, 13.8; short forms for, 13.9
- for supplementary data, 1.124
- in version tracking, 1.31
- See also URLs
- dot operator, 10.63
- dots, 6.12, 12.66. See also periods (punctuation)
- double comparative or superlative error, 5.91
- double genitives (double possessives), 5.23, 5.53, 7.26
- double negatives, 5.243
- double or multiple numbering, 1.63, 1.63n1, 2.33, 2.34, 3.11, 3.51
- double possessives (double genitives), 5.23, 5.53, 7.26
- double posting, in indexes, 15.16, 15.30, 15.98, 15.129, 15.132
- double vs. single quotation marks, 7.61, 12.30–31, 12.74
- “down” style (capitalization), 8.1. See also sentence case
- downloadable formats, 14.58–59, 14.163, 14.167. See also ebooks
- drama
- characters in, 8.36
- dialogue in, 12.8, 12.48, 12.54–55
- divisions of, 8.186
- format of, 12.48, 12.54
- quotations from, 12.8, 12.55, 12.66
- source citations for, 12.78, 14.99, 14.101, 14.153–54
- titles of, 8.185
- See also classical Greek and Latin works; dialogue; speech
- dramatic rights, 4.112
- drawings. See artwork; charts and graphs; illustrations; line art
- DRM (digital rights management), 4.113
- drop caps, 12.36
- drop folios, 1.6–8, 1.55
- drug names, 8.147
- dummy auxiliaries, 5.157. See also do
- dust jackets
- artwork on, 1.82, 4.103, 4.105
- authors’ previous publications on, 1.19
- biographical information on, 1.75
- copy for self-published books, 2.3
- countries of printing on, 1.29
- DOIs on, 1.37
- illustration credit lines on, 1.82
- ISBNs and bar codes on, 1.36, 1.78, 1.83
- overview of, 1.80
- proofreading, 2.105, 2.108, 2.113
- Dutch language, 8.11, 11.77
- DVDs. See multimedia content
- dynasties, 9.47, 11.92