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Preface vii
Chapter 1
Punctuation 1
Chapter 2
Capitals,Italics,and Quotation Marks
Chapter 3
Plurals,Possessives,and Compounds
Chapter 4
Abbreviations
Chapter 5
The Treatment of Numbers
Chapter 6
Composition and Grammar
Chapter 7
Notes and Bibliographies
Chapter 8
The Treatment of Quotations
Chapter 9
Copyediting and Proofreading
Index
In binomial nomenclature,a genus name may be abbreviated with its initial letter after the first reference to it is spelled out.The abbreviation is always punctuated.