Articles, titles of: capitalization of principal words in, 41; to be roman-quoted, 82.
Artificial noun-formations, plural of, 165.
Artistic schools, capitalization of names of, 9.
"As follows," use of colon in connection with, 133.
Asterisk, use of, for footnote index, 232.
Astronomical terms: capitalization of, 48; use of italics for, 71.
Astrophysical Journal: connecting numbers in, 173, note; metric and chemical symbols in, 123, note; style for footnotes in, 239, note; use of comma with figures in, 159, note.
Authors: hints to, pp. 113–16; names of, if in text, not repeated in footnotes, 235.
Averages and generalizations, columns of, in tables, sometimes in distinctive type, 241.
Bastard title. See Half-title.
B.C. ("before Christ"): spacing of, 52, 219; use of small caps for, 52; hundreds to be repeated with, 173.
"Bi-," compounds with, 197.
Bible: books of, abbreviations for, 109; capitalization of names for, 29; titles of books of, to be capitalized, 31; to be set in roman, 60; versions of, abbreviations for, 109; capitalized, 30.
Biblical: Books, abbreviations for, 109, and capitalization of names of, 31; parables, capitalization of, 32; terms, miscellaneous, capitalization of, 33.
Bills, legislative, capitalization of, 18.
Biological terms, use of capitals in, 46.
Black-face. See Bold-face type.
Blank verse, indention of, 275.
Blanks, use of leaders for, in columns of figiures, 244.
Blocks, capitalization of names of, 8.
Bodies: legislative, judiciary, and administrative, capitalization of names of, 12: military, numbers of, to be spelled out, 100.
Bold-face type: defined, 255; how indicated, 255.
"Book," compound sof, 186.
Books: biblical, abbreviation of, 109, and capitalization of, 31; capitalization of titles of, 41; italics for titles of, 60.
Botanical Gazette: exception to rule for capitalization of titles of publications in, 41, note; to hyphenization of compounds of "co-," etc., 203, note; to rule for italics, 60, note; to rule for quotation marks, 82, note; metric symbols in, 123, note; footnotes in, 239, note; thousands in, 159, note.
Botanical terms: use of capitals in, 46; of italics, 46, 71.
Bourgeois, explained, 252.
Box-beads: defined, 282; how to set, 242, illustrated, 250; omission of period after, 125; use of capitals in, 41.
Brackets, rules for use of, 178–79.
Break, or change, in sentence, to be indicated by dash, 166.
Breakline: defined, 217; spacing of, 367.
Brevier, explained, 252.
"Brother," compounds of, 190.
"Brothers," forming part of name of firm, 107.
Buildings, capitalization of names of, 8.
But-clauses, use of comma in connection with, 144.
"By-," compounds with, 202.
C, soft, do not divide on, 223.
Capitalization: of abbreviations of academic degrees, etc., 22; of adjectives derived from proper nouns, 1; of adjectives and nouns designating definite geographical regions, 5; of books of the Bible, 31; of conventions, congresses, expositions, etc., 17; of creeds and confessions of faith, 19; of Egyptian dynasties, 13; of epithets, used as proper names, 2; of exclamations "O" and "Oh," 40, 117; of feast-days, 20; of geographical names, 4–5; of geological epochs, 14, 46; of governmental departments, 12; of historical epochs, 14; of important events, 15; of legislative, judiciary, and administrative bodies, 12; of linguistic and literary periods, 14, 123; of miscellaneous terms, 33; of miscellaneous historical terms, 9, 16; of monastic orders, 10; of names for the Bible, 29; of names of regiments, 13; of names and epithets of peoples, races, and tribes, 47; of names of bodies of solar system, 48; of "nature," etc., and abstract ideas, personified, 26; of nouns and adjectives used to designate the Supreme Being, or any member of the Trinity, 24; of organizations and institutions, 11–12; of particles (in French,
