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Dictionary.com Style Guide


  1. Punctuation
  2. Capitalization, Italicization and Underlining
  3. Footnotes, Online Sources, Bibliographies
  4. Style Guide for:
  • Academic Degrees and Titles
  • Address Abbreviations
  • Aircraft Names
  • Arabic Numerals
  • Automobile Names
  • Courtesy Titles
  • Document Titles
  • Fraternal Organizations
  • Geographic Terms
  • Government Organizations
  • Historical Events and Periods
  • Labor Organizations
  • Languages
  • Military Titles and Organizations
  • Nobility Titles
  • Organizational Titles and Abbreviations
  • Personal Names
  • Proper Nouns and their Derivatives
  • Religious Titles, Writings, and Organizations
  • Roman Numerals
  1. Miscellaneous:
  • Abbreviations
  • Affixes (Prefixes, Suffixes)
  • Animal Group, Young Names, and Male/Female Names
  • Abbreviations of Months and Days
  • Nations of the World
  • Official Forms of Address for Letter Writing
  • States and Territories of the U.S.
  • Weights and Measures

Appendix I. A guide to proper nouns, covering: Companies, Organizations, Languages, Trademarks and Tradenames
Appendix II. A guide to Word Division

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