ould be spaced (... vs ....).
7. Hyphens
7.1 To express the idea of ​​a unit and to avoid ambiguity, hyphenate compound nouns and compound modifiers that precede a noun:
She was a scholar-athlete.
All-night terminal sessions are counterproductive.
The IBM 4250 printer has all-points-addressable graphics capabilities.
7.2 Use a hyphen between the components of any number (including fractions) below one hundred that is written as two words: thirty-five two-thirds
8. Apostrophes
8.1 Use apostrophe, s ('s) to indicate singular possessive:
Users keep turning on to IBM's VM operating system.
8.2 Use s , apostrophe (s ') to indicate plural possessive:
We found the missing tools in the boys 'clubhouse.
8.3 Use apostrophe, s ('s) to form the plural of abbreviations with periods, lowercase letters used as nouns, and capital letters that would be confusing if s alone were added:
M.A. 's and Ph.D. 's x's and y's S's, A's, I's SOS's
8.4 When you can do it without creating confusion, use s alone to form the plural of letters, figures, words treated as words, and hyphenated coinages used as nouns:
three Rs four 8sthey came in twos the 1980s a dozen ifs
9. Italics
9.1 Use italics (sparingly) to emphasize a word or phrase:
The GET command inserts data from the current line forward , so the user must be sure to make the appropriate line the current line before entering this command.
9.2 Use italics to identify a letter treated as a letter or a word treated as a word:
The word eyes appears twice in the first line of the poem. br/>
9.3 Use italics to identify foreign words or phrases not yet absorbed into English.
10. Titles
10.1 Italicize (Or underline) the titles of books, magazines, journals, newspapers, plays, operas, films, television shows, radio programs, and long poems. br/>
10.2 Enclose in quotation marks the titles of short poems, essays, magazine articles, newspaper columns, short stories, songs, speeches, and chapters of books.
In journalism , see the following entries in the Associated Press Stylebook : "Composition titles," "magazine names," "newspaper names. "In summary, these entries indicate that most composition titles (Books, plays, songs, television shows, etc.) Should be enclosed in quotation marks but not in italics. Newspaper and magazine titles, however, should neither be italicized nor enclosed in quotation marks.
11. Numbers
11.1 Spell out a number when it begins a sentence.
11.2 Spell out a number that can be written in one or two words (except as noted in 11.3) and 11.5):
three twenty-two five thousand one million
11.3 If numbers that can be written as one or two words cluster closely together in the sentence, use numerals instead:
The ages of the members of the city council are 69, 64, 58, 54,47, 45, and 35.
11.4 Use numerals if spelling out a number would require more than two words:
3507,1254,978,2655.78
11.5 Use numerals for addresses, dates, exact times of day, exact sums of money, exact measurements (including miles per hour), game scores, mathematical ratios, and page numbers:
55 mph ratio of 4-to-1 $ 6.75 p. 37
In journalism, see the numerals entry in the Associated Press Stylebook .
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12. Quotation Marks
12.1 Use double quotation marks to create irony by setting off words you don't take at face value:
The "Debate" resulted in three cracked heads and two broken noses.
12.2 Do not use quotation marks to create emphasis (see 9.1).
12.3 Use single quotation marks to enclose a quotation within a quotation:
At the beginning of the class, the professor asked, "What does Kuhn mean by 'Paradigm shifts,' and what is their relationship to normal science? "
12.4 If the quotation will take more than four lines on the page, use indentation instead of quotation marks to indicate that the passage is a quotation. Introduce the quotation with a colon, set it off from the rest of the text by triple-spacing (Assuming the rest of the text is double-spaced), indent ten spaces from the left margin, and single-space the quoted passage. To indicate a new paragraph within the quoted material, indent an additional three spaces.
12.5 Do not use quotation marks with indirect discourse, or with rhetorical...
