This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... SPECIFICATIONS. In preparing manuscript, write on one side of the paper only and use sheets of uniform size. Use the typewriter, if convenient. If written by hand, print all proper names carefully. Allow space between lines so that corrections can be made without crowding. A foot-note should be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... SPECIFICATIONS. In preparing manuscript, write on one side of the paper only and use sheets of uniform size. Use the typewriter, if convenient. If written by hand, print all proper names carefully. Allow space between lines so that corrections can be made without crowding. A foot-note should be written in the manuscript immediately under the place to which it refers, and a line should be drawn across the page both above and below it. Foot-notes should be carefully given. An asterisk or other sign may serve to correlate one or two notes, but when many foot-notes are necessary it is best to number them, thus: 1E. A. F. Penrose 'Tin Deposits of the Malay Peninsula'; Trans. A. I. M. E., Vol. XX, pp. 64 to 92. 1 Journal Amer. Soc. Nav. Eng., Vol. II, Pt. 3, p. 17. In referring to authors or the names of persons, give the initials. Exercise care in this detail. Any man has a right to be annoyed if his name is spelled wrongly, for it is the one thing that is peculiarly his own. In tabulated statements, the head of a column should end with a period. Headings should be uniform as regards abbreviation. Single words or the first of the several words in a description should begin with a capital. Time by the clock may be written thus: 5:40. Write January 14, not 14th of January. Instead of 8 in. to 10 in., write 8 to 10 in.; and instead of 30 to 40, say 30 to 40. Capitalize the names of geologic formations and periods: Carboniferous rocks, Red Beds of the Trias, Tertiary period. Points of the compass ordinarily are not capitalized, except when they refer to a region, as "conditions in the South," "business in the West." This applies also to their derivatives eastern, western, etc., as "in western Colorado," "in southern California"; but "on the...
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