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Index
- Voting:
- House and Committee of the Whole, 379-381
- Pairs, 382
- Yeas and nays, 381-382
- Voting:
- Congressional Record Index, 406-416
- Abbreviations and acronyms, 406-409
- Capitalization, 409-411
- Flush cap lines, 412
- General instructions, 406
- Punctuation, 411
- Roman and italic, 412
- Samples, 413-416
- Spacing, 409
- Congressional work:
- Back title, 428, 430
- Cover and title pages, 423-426, 429, 431-432
- Joint explanatory statement, 427
- Reports and hearings (2.39), 15, 417-432
- Consonants:
- A, an, before (5.16-5.19), 92
- Doubled (5.14, 5.15), 92
- Hyphen, to avoid tripling (6.7), 96
- Contents (15.20-15.30), 305-307
- Part of book (2.3i, 2.12), 10, 11
- Type (15.28-15.30), 306-307
- Contractions, apostrophe to indicate (8.11, 8.12), 195, 196
- Copy (see also Preparing copy):
- Blank pages, avoid more than two (1.15), 2
- Corrections marked (1.19-1.20), 2
- Covers to be indicated (1.13), 2
- Fold-ins, avoid use of (1.14), 2
- Folioing looseleaf or perforated work (1.12), 2
- Footnote references (1.7), 1
- Illustrations:
- Instructions (1.8), 1
- Position (1.8), 1
- Separate sheets (1.8), 1
- Legible (1.2), 1
- Numbering (1.3), 1
- Paper stock (1.16), 2, 3
- Paragraph, begin with (1.4), 1
- Proofreader's marks (1.22), 4-5
- Proper names, signatures, etc., plainly marked (1.5), 1
- Reprint, in duplicate (1.3), 1
- Style sheets furnished (1.11), 2
- Trim size (1.11, 1.17), 2
- Typewritten, one side only (1.3), 1
- Corrections:
- Author's (1.19-1.20), 2
- Proofreading (2.79-2.80), 19
- Counties and geographic divisions, 348-369
- Common misspellings, 369-370
- Cover:
- Kind to be indicated (1.13, 2.5), 2, 10
- Report sample, 8
- Crown (3.35), 37-38, 54
- Currency (see also Money), 334-338
- D
- Dagger (13.68-13.69, 15.14), 290, 304
- Dash (8.60-8.75), 204-206
- Em dash (8.60-8.70), 204-205
- En dash (8.72-8.75), 206
- Figures, letters (8.72-8.73, 9.12, 12.7), 206, 223, 270
- Not to be used for and (8.75), 206
- Not to be used for to (8.74, 13.111), 206,295
- Proportion (8.32), 199
- Date columns (see Tabular work).
- Datelines, Addresses, and Signatures (16.1-16.28), 309-319
- Dates:
- Abbreviations (9.44-9.46, 13.5), 233, 281
- A.D., B.C. (8.52, 12.9c), 203, 271
- Commas with (8.49, 8.52, 12.9c), 202, 203,271
- En dash (8.73-8.75, 12.9c), 206, 271
- Ordinals in (12.10), 274
- Roman numerals (12.29), 280
- Tabular work (13.5), 281