Air University
Style and Author Guide
Second Edition
Air University Press
Air Force Research Institute
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Project Editor
Marvin Bassett
ISBN 978-1-58566-254-8
Published by Air University Press in April 2015
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Contents
FOREWORD v
PREFACE vii
NOTE ON CHANGES TO THE SECOND EDITION ix
Part 1
Air University Style Guide for Writers and Editors
1.0 Terms and Usage 3
2.0 Abbreviations 29
3.0 Grammar and Punctuation 61
3.1 Grammar 61
3.2 Punctuation 71
4.0 Mechanics 85
4.1 Capitalization 85
4.2 Spelling and Word Formation 103
4.3 Numbers 119
4.4 Italics 127
4.5 Display Dots 133
5.0 Documentation 135
Appendix
A Note Citations 145
B Bibliographic Entries 169
C Copyright 181
BIBLIOGRAPHY 183
INDEX 187
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contents
Part 2
Air University Press Author Guide
About Us 205
Payment to Authors 206
Copyright 206
Classied and Sensitive Material 206
Security and Policy Review 206
Production Schedule 207
Accepted Manuscripts 207
Submission Instructions 207
Submitting a Manuscript to the Publication Review Board 209
Submitting an Accepted Manuscript for Publication 209
Formatting Your Manuscript 209
Formatting and Submitting Tables and Illustrations 210
Seed List for Index 212
Permissions 213
Distribution List 214
Checklist 214
Appendix
A Publishing Agreement 215
B Author’s Checklist 221
C Illustrations Log 225
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Foreword
As the intellectual and leadership center of the Air Force, the Air University
(AU) produces cutting-edge scholarship on airpower to advance our under-
standing of defense and national security issues. e Air University Style and
Author Guide helps ensure that the form and style of AU scholarship are as
impressive as the substance.
Like its predecessor, this second edition of AU-1, Air University Style and
Author Guide, will prove to be indispensable to AU faculty, sta, students, and
prospective authors. Faithful use of this guide will help the airpower community
produce scholarly manuscripts that conform to current academic norms of style,
format, language, and documentation.
Part 1 of this publication, Air University Style Guide for Writers and Editors,
provides guidance on such matters as grammar, mechanics, and documentation
of sources. Part 2, “Air University Press Author Guide,” oers instructions for
authors who wish to submit manuscripts for possible publication by AU Press.
In most matters, the Air University Style and Author Guide follows the Chicago
Manual of Style, 16th edition, but it also addresses many military-specic matters
of style and mechanics that are not covered in most other style guides. AU-1 is
an important reference tool for all AU writers, and I highly encourage its use.
STEVEN L. KWAST
Lieutenant General, USAF
Commander and President, Air University
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Preface
Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
—Mark Twain
I am pleased to introduce the second edition of AU-1, Air University Style
and Author Guide. is edition reects the latest guidance from the Chicago
Manual of Style, 16th edition, and authoritative Department of Defense
sources. It is designed to be useful to every researcher and writer at Air Uni-
versity, whether authoring a course paper, thesis, journal article, or book for
publication.
e Style Guide includes part 1, “Air University Style Guide for Writers and
Editors,” which has served as AU’s style manual since 2001, and part 2, “Air
University Press Author Guide,” which provides instructions for potential AU
Press authors. e guidance in part 1 is divided into ve sections: terms and
usage, abbreviations, grammar and punctuation, mechanics, and documenta-
tion. Within each section, entries are arranged alphabetically.
One strength of the Style Guide is its coverage of military style issues, such
as acronyms, military ranks, and specialized military terms. For this reason,
the Style Guide may be of interest to those outside the Air Force who write or
edit manuscripts about military issues. But it is also an accessible and au-
thoritative source of guidance applicable to all disciplines: punctuation, the
treatment of numbers, grammar issues such as parallelism and passive voice,
and so forth. New users will nd the index helpful in locating specic topics.
e Style Guide is also available electronically (a PDF le) from the AU Press
website, making it easily searchable for key terms.
Of course, the Style Guide cannot address every aspect of writing or every
style issue. For topics not covered here, users should consult the Chicago
Manual of Style, 16th edition, which this guide follows in most matters. We
base spellings and denitions on Webster’s ird New International Dictionary
of the English Language, Unabridged, and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dic-
tionary, 11th edition (in the guide, the term dictionary refers to one or both of
these sources). For advice on grammatical issues, we recommend the eighth
edition of Index to English by Wilma R. and David R. Ebbitt or the seventh
edition of Rules for Writers by Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers.
Many individuals at AU, the Air Force Research Institute, and AU Press
have contributed to the development of this second edition. It is an improve-
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preface
ment but undoubtedly imperfect. We invite interested writers and editors to
send comments and suggestions for later editions to Dr. Marvin Bassett, editor
of the Air University Style and Author Guide (aupr[email protected]).
ALLEN G. PECK, AD-26
Director, Air Force Research Institute
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Note on Changes to the Second Edition
Nine years have passed since publication of the rst edition of AU-1, Air
University Style and Author Guide, which replaced the Air University Style
Guide for Writers and Editors, also designated AU-1. e new AU-1 intro-
duced expanded coverage of stylistic principles, a revised organizational
scheme, a numbering system to facilitate the location of entries, and an au-
thor guide to assist contributors in submitting their work to Air University
Press. Although the second edition of the guide retains those features, it oers
both new guidance and changes to existing principles occasioned by additional
experience dealing with the needs of Air Force writers and by the appearance
of the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, AU-1’s authoritative source
of stylistic guidance. It also adds tabs that allow users to locate the guides major
sections quickly and easily.
Users of the guide will nd much that is new in part 1, “Air University Style
Guide for Writers and Editors.” For example, section 1.0, “Terms and Usage,
revises the use of access dates in notes and bibliography entries (1.3); covers
the treatment of Arabic terms and names (1.10); updates the handling of clas-
sied sources (1.21); provides more in-depth advice about creating and al-
phabetizing an index (1.37); and oers more latitude in the use of subhead-
ings (1.60). Section 2.0, “Abbreviations,” permits spelling-out of the titles
President and Senator and recommends use of the two-letter abbreviations of
the US Postal Service. It also presents the digital object identier (DOI) as a
more stable locator than the URL (2.142); notes the new uppercase styling of
Global Positioning System (GPS) (2.194); adds the academic degree master of
philosophy in military strategy (MPMS) from the School of Advanced Air
and Space Studies (2.309); and claries the use of unmanned aircra system
(UAS) (2.477) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) (2.478). Section 3.0,
Grammar and Punctuation,” addresses the handling of apostrophes in proper
nouns and possessives ending in silent “s” and an “eez” sound (3.2.1); it also
permits the use of a comma following a question mark or an exclamation
point in the title of a work (3.2.5). In section 4.0, “Mechanics,” users of the
guide learn that (like Airman) Sailor, Soldier, and Marine are capitalized in
references to US personnel (4.1.125, 4.1.135, 4.2.150); that the second ele-
ment of a hyphenated number is capitalized in the titles of works (Lolitas
Twenty-First Birthday) and in the name of a numbered air force (Twenty-
ird Air Force) (4.1.149, 4.3.19); that they can choose between terms such as
web/website or Web/Web site (4.1.154); that they should follow the diction-
ary’s spelling of compound words with cyber and use open styling with cyber
words that dont appear in the dictionary (4.2.62); that the term Koran has
two secondary variants considered part of standard usage, as is the case with
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variant forms of sharia (4.2.135, 4.2.222); that Shiite is the guides recommended
spelling (4.2.223); that an exception to the general rule for spelling whole
numbers occurs if several numbers appear in the same sentence, some normally
spelled out and some normally represented by numerals (4.3); that cardinal
rather than ordinal numbers are used with abbreviations of military units
(97th Air Mobility Wing / 97 AMW) (4.3.17); and that certain principles govern
whether the names of websites or sections of websites are displayed in roman
type, italics, or quotation marks (4.4). In section 5.0, “Documentation,” readers
nd that the guide now claries the alphabetizing of single and multiauthor
entries in a bibliography (5.1) and that the rst paragraph of a block quotation
is indented but not its subsequent paragraphs (5.2). Appendix A, “Note Citations,
now allows inclusion of the subject of a memorandum, oers guidance on doc-
umenting information found in blogs, and recommends forms of notes and
bibliography entries for doctrine publications in light of the reorganization and
renaming of those publications by the Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine
Development and Education. Finally, Part 2, “Air University Press Author
Guide,” outlines the guidelines on copyright, fair use, and permissions that
AU Press has adopted from the University of Chicago Press. us, with this
second edition, the Air University Style and Author Guide continues to fulll
its objective of meeting the needs of Air Force writers by providing the most
recent and pertinent stylistic guidance available.
note on cHanGes to tHe seconD eDItIon
Part 1
Air University Style Guide for Writers and Editors
1.0 TERMS AND USAGE 3
Terms and Usage
1.0 Terms and Usage
is section contains explanations of the conventional use of se-
lected common words (e.g., a or an, bimonthly, entitle or title, while)
and of terms having distinctive meanings in publishing (e.g., caption,
foreword, glossary, illustrations/gures, running heads, tables). It also
provides guidance on the use of terms that might prove distracting or
oensive to readers (e.g., Negro, profanity, sexist language) and identi-
es acceptable variants of certain words (e.g., US Air Force / Air Force
/ USAF, weapon system / weapons system, World War I / World War 1
/ First World War / Great War).
1.1 a/an. Use a before consonant sounds and an before vowel sounds: a
historical event, not an historical event. Since an abbreviation is usu-
ally read as a series of letters or as a word, choose the indenite article
in accordance with the pronunciation of the rst letter (an NCA deci-
sion) or the pronunciation of the word (a NATO meeting).
1.2 above. You may use above to refer to information higher on the same
page or on a preceding page:
e report found aws in the above interpretation.
1.3 access date. An access date is the date on which you consult an online
resource. You do not have to include it in a note or bibliography entry.
You may wish to do so, however, if the resource has no date of pub-
lication or revision. If you do include an access date, place it before
the URL or DOI, preceded and followed by a comma (in a note) or a
period (in a bibliography entry). See also URL (2.486), DOI (2.142).
1. “Glossary,” SitePoint, accessed 21 October 2010,
http://www.sitepoint.com/glossary.php?q=I.
Glossary.” SitePoint. Accessed 21 October 2010.
http://www.sitepoint.com/glossary.php?q=I.
1.4 aerospace. In general, use air and space (1.8) rather than aerospace.
1.5 aircra. Show model designations by adding the letter without a
space: F-4C, B-52H.
1.6 air force. When referring to the air force of the United States, use
United States Air Force, US Air Force, Air Force, or USAF. Use air
force to refer to an air force in general. See also 4.1 (capitalization of
armies, navies, air forces, etc.).
1.7 Air Force–wide (adj., adv.). Use an en dash (3.2.6) in this compound.
4 1.0 TERMS AND USAGE
Terms and Usage
1.8 air and space. Use this term rather than aerospace.
1.9 and/or. Acceptable, but dont overuse. According to Ebbitt and Ebbitt
(see “Bibliography,” p. 185 of this guide), “and/or is used primarily in
business writing. . . . It is objected to by some readers because and/
or looks odd and because and or or alone is oen all thats needed.
But its sometimes useful when there are three alternatives—both the
items mentioned or either one of them: ination and/or depression
(p. 24). See also slash (3.2.17).
1.10 Arabic terms and names. In transliterations of Arabic, use an apos-
trophe ( ’ ) to represent the hamza (Qur’an) and an opening single
quotation mark ( ‘ ) to represent the ‘ayn (‘Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti).
Use a hyphen to join the Arabic denite article, al, to a noun (al-
Qaeda). For the titles of works and journals as well as the names of
organizations, capitalize only the rst word and proper nouns; capi-
talize al only when it begins a sentence or the title of a work.
Kitab al-Muqaa al-kabir
Tahdhib al-kamal  asma’ al-rijal
Al-Qa’idas Doctrine for Insurgency
Arabic surnames oen include prexes such as Abu, Abd, Ibn, al, or
el, the capitalization of which varies. In general, lowercase such terms
joined with a hyphen; do not drop them when using the surname alone.
Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud; Ibn Saud
Syed Abu Zafar Nadvi; Abu Zafar Nadvi
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti; al-Tikriti
Alphabetize Arabic names by surname, using the part of the name
following the article al but retaining Abu, Abd, and Ibn.
Abu Zafar Nadvi, Syed
Ibn Saud, Abdul Aziz
Tikriti, Barzan Ibrahim al-
1.11 arms control (n.)
1.12 arms-control (adj.)
1.13 art, artwork. See illustrations/gures (1.36).
1.14 back matter. Elements following the main text of a book are known
as the back matter. In order, they include appendix(es), chronology
(if not in the front matter), abbreviations (if not in the front matter),
glossary, bibliography, list of contributors, and index(es). Use Arabic
numerals to number the pages of the back matter.
1.0 TERMS AND USAGE 5
Terms and Usage
1.15 below. You may use below to refer to information lower on the same
page or on a following page:
ese exercises, discussed below, are important to a units training.
1.16 biannual, biennial. Biannual and semiannual mean twice a year;
biennial means every two years; biannual can also mean every two
years. For clarity, use twice a year or every two years.
1.17 bimonthly. Bimonthly can mean every two months or twice a month;
semimonthly means twice a month. For clarity, use every two months
or twice a month.
1.18 biweekly. Biweekly can mean every two weeks or twice a week. For
clarity, use every two weeks or twice a week.
1.19 black (people) (n., adj.). Use black (or Black) ocer, black (or Black)
people, blacks (or Blacks). See also white (people) (1.77).
1.20 caption. A caption, which describes an illustration or a gure, fol-
lows the number of the gure on a line parallel to and ush le with
the bottom of the gure. Place a period at the end of the caption if it
is a complete sentence; preferably, use sentence-style capitalization
even if it is not a complete sentence (see also titles of works [4.1.149];
tables [1.62]). Do not use a period at the end of a caption that is an
incomplete sentence unless you follow it with a complete sentence:
Figure 1. Carrier air wing. As the Air Force assembles composite
wings, it would do well to study how the Navy operates its carrier air
wings. e composite nature of the carrier air wing is evident from
this deck photo of the USS eodore Roosevelt and its complement
of aircra.
Figure 2. System owchart applied to mission accomplishment
Note that the gure designation and caption may be set in boldface:
Figure 2. Operationally responsive space: View of near-space ar-
chitecture
Figure 3. Responsiveness of space architecture. e ORS initiative
divides improvements in responsiveness into categories that include
the space vehicle, launch vehicle, and infrastructure. Improving each
of these areas simultaneously presents a challenge. (Reprinted from
brieng, Lt Col Gus Hernandez, Headquarters Air Force Space Com-
mand [AFSPC], Directorate of Plans and Requirements, subject: ORS
Overview, 7 March 2005.)
Use headline-style capitalization and italics for a work of art:
Figure 9. Starry Night
6 1.0 TERMS AND USAGE
Terms and Usage
You may either spell out or abbreviate “gure,” and you may sepa-
rate its number from the caption by using either a period or (if the
gure number and caption are typographically dierent) a space.
Choose one style and use it consistently.
Fig. 1. US bomb tonnage dropped on Germany by month
Figure 3 US airpower versus the world
Plate 3 Venice in winter
Identify the source of an illustration with a credit line, in parenthe-
ses, at the end of the caption. Use “reprinted from” or “adapted from,
depending upon whether you have copied the illustration or modi-
ed it, respectively:
Figure 3. Competitive eects on general and administrative costs.
(Adapted from Maj Paul G. Hough, “Financial Management for the
New World Order,Airpower Journal 6, no. 3 [Fall 1992]: 51.)
Figure 3. Responsiveness of space architecture. e ORS initiative
divides improvements in responsiveness into categories that include
the space vehicle, launch vehicle, and infrastructure. Improving
each of these areas simultaneously presents a challenge. (Reprinted
from brieng, Lt Col Gus Hernandez, Headquarters Air Force Space
Command [AFSPC], Directorate of Plans and Requirements, sub-
ject: ORS Overview, 7 March 2005.)
For a photo obtained free of charge, place the photographers name
underneath the photo and use the word “courtesy”:
Photograph courtesy of Col Mike Schrieve
Mayor Lunsford at the groundbreaking ceremony for the industrial
plant, September 2002. Courtesy of Cathi Fredericks.
Unless fair use applies (see appendix C), copyrighted illustrations
require permission. (Generally, AU Press authors must obtain per-
mission for all copyrighted illustrations to be reproduced in an AU
Press publication.)
Reproduced by permission from T. R. Fehrenbach, is Kind of War
(Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Brassey’s, 2000), facing 237.
If you use words such as le, right, top, bottom, or le to right to
identify individual subjects within an illustration, put them in italics,
preceding the subjects they identify.
Figure 1. Le to right: George Jones, Henry Johnson, and John Hopkins
Figure 3. Upper le, B-1; upper right, F-15; lower le, C-5; center, XV-3;
lower right, XV-15
1.0 TERMS AND USAGE 7
Terms and Usage
If you include a list of illustrations, which follows the table of contents
on a separate page, you do not have to reprint the captions exactly as
they appear in the text. If they are lengthy, you should shorten them
.
See also illustrations/gures (1.36).
1.21 classied sources. If your document will be available to the general
public, do not cite either classied information or the titles of classi-
ed documents (whether in the text, notes, bibliography, etc.).
1.22 click. One kilometer.
1.23 copyright. See appendix C of this guide.
1.24 dates. Write exact dates in the sequence day-month-year, without
commas. Use numerals for the day, spell out the month, and use a
four-digit year. When you use only the month and year, no commas
are necessary:
FDR referred to 7 December 1941 as a day that would live in infamy.
e date March 2003 was special to her.
You may use 9/11 when referring to the terrorist attacks of 11 Sep-
tember 2001.
1.25 direct quotations. See quotations (5.7).
1.26 dot-com (n., adj.). A company that markets its products or services
online via a website.
1.27 East Berlin, East Germany. Use East Berlin or East Germany, not
just Berlin or Germany alone, in references to the city and country
when they were divided.
1.28 entitle, title (v.). e terms entitle and title are used interchangeably
in the sense of designating or calling by a title: A book entitled (or
titled) Roderick Random was on the list of required readings.
1.29 epigraph. An epigraph is a pertinent quotation that may be used at
the head of a chapter. Do not enclose an epigraph in quotation marks.
Set it in italics in the same sized type as the text or in roman a size
smaller. Do not place a note number at the end of an epigraph to
identify the source in a list of notes.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little
statesmen and philosophers and divines.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays, First Series: Self-Reliance
1.30 gures. See numbers (4.3) or illustrations/gures (1.36), as appropriate.
8 1.0 TERMS AND USAGE
Terms and Usage
1.31 foreword. A foreword (not spelled forward) is part of the front matter
of a book, appearing before the preface. Usually it is two to four pages
long and written by someone other than the author of the book. e
name of the person who wrote the foreword may appear at the end of
the piece. See also front matter (1.32).
1.32 front matter. Elements preceding the main text of a book are known
as the front matter. In order, they include the title page, disclaimer
page (AU Press publications), dedication, epigraph, table of contents
(which should list parts of the front matter that follow it but none
that precede it), list of illustrations, list of tables, foreword, about the
author page (AU Press publications), preface, acknowledgments (if
not part of preface), introduction (if not part of text), abbreviations
(if not part of back matter), and chronology (if not part of back mat-
ter). Use lowercase Roman numerals to number the pages of the front
matter.
1.33 glossary. A glossary is an alphabetized list of terms and their deni-
tions. See also back matter (1.14).
Glossary of Internet Terms
browser A client program (soware) that is used to look at various
kinds of Internet resources
cookie Commonly refers to a piece of information sent by a Web
server to a Web browser that the browser soware is expected
to save and to send back to the server whenever the browser
makes additional requests from the server
download To transfer data (usually a le) from one computer to an-
other—the opposite of upload
If your text includes a number of acronyms or initialisms, you may
wish to include them in a list of abbreviations (an umbrella term that
includes both acronyms and initialisms), located before the bibliog-
raphy.
Abbreviations
AWACS Airborne Warning and Control System
LGB laser-guided bomb
MANPADS man-portable air defense system
1.34 headings. See subheadings (1.60).
1.35 idem (the same).
1.36 illustrations/gures. Illustrations or gures include graphics of
some type, as seen in charts, graphs, “wiring diagrams,” and so forth.
1.0 TERMS AND USAGE 9
Terms and Usage
ey also include maps, photographs, and paintings. Tables (1.62) are
not considered illustrations.
Number your illustrations consecutively throughout the text, and
refer to them by their numbers, either parenthetically “(g. 8)” or as
part of the text:
e totals shown in gure 3 are rounded o to the nearest dollar.
Place an illustration as close to such a reference as possible, preferably
immediately following the paragraph in which you rst mention it.
If each chapter in a book is written by a dierent author, the num-
bering of gures and tables restarts with each new chapter. For pre-
cise identication of gures and tables, use a combination of chap-
ter number, a period, and gure/table number: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, and so
forth. If a book has appendixes with gures and/or tables, the num-
bers should include the letter of the particular appendix (A.1, A.2,
B.1, B.2, C.1, C.2, etc.).
If you include a gallery, a section consisting solely of illustrations,
you dont have to number the illustrations unless you refer to them
in the text. If you have numbered illustrations in the text, other than
those in the gallery, use, for example, “(g. 1)” and “(plate 1)” to re-
fer to an illustration in the text and to one in the gallery, respectively.
Place a reference to the location of the gallery at the end of the table
of contents (e.g., “Illustrations follow page 150”).
If you include a list of illustrations, place it on a separate page, fol-
lowing the table of contents. Title it “Illustrations” (without the quo-
tation marks), but cite it in the table of contents as “List of Illustra-
tions” (without the quotation marks):
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Foreword
About the Author
Preface
You may either spell out or abbreviate “gure,” and you may sepa-
rate its number from the caption by using either a period or (if the
gure number and caption are typographically dierent) a space.
Choose one style and use it consistently.
Fig. 1. US bomb tonnage dropped on Germany by month
Figure 3 US airpower versus the world
Plate 3 Venice in winter
10 1.0 TERMS AND USAGE
Terms and Usage
Identify the source of the illustration with a credit line. Place it at
the end of the caption, in parentheses, introduced by reprinted from
or adapted from, depending upon whether you have copied the illus-
tration or modied it, respectively. Before using an illustration from a
copyrighted source, obtain a formal (written) release from the copy-
right owner. See also caption (1.20); tables (1.62); appendix C.
1.37 index. An index helps the reader nd details about particular sub-
jects. Meaningful entries direct the reader to pertinent references
in the text but not to passing remarks. Include terms relevant to the
books purpose—that is, key terms that a reader/researcher would
nd useful. For example, you would expect to nd terms such as
Schwarzkopf, Norman; United States Central Command; and Opera-
tion Desert Storm in the index of a book on the Gulf War of 1991.
However, you would not expect to nd Orlando Country Club in this
index even though the book may have mentioned in passing that
General Schwarzkopf was a member. Just as you should not include
terms of peripheral interest, so should you omit obvious subjects. For
example, theres no point in including Arnold, Henry H. in the index
of a biography of Hap Arnold.
You have some latitude in choosing which parts of a book to index.
1. Do not index elements of the front matter such as the title page,
dedication, lists of illustrations and tables, and acknowledgments.
a. You may index the foreword and preface if they are about
the subject of the book rather than about how it came to be
written.
b. You may also index a true introduction, whether or not it is
part of the front matter.
2. You should not index most of the back matter (glossary, bibli-
ography, etc.).
3. You may index appendices if they contain important informa-
tion omitted from the main text of the book; do not index ap-
pendices if they merely reproduce a document (e.g., the text of
a treaty) discussed in the text.
4. Do not index reference endnotes, but you may index textual
endnotes (if you do, the index citation should include the page
number, n for note, and the note number [without spaces or
punctuation] [e.g., 134n14; 134nn14–16 (consecutive notes)]).
5. You may index material in gures and tables if it is of particular
importance (e.g., 138 g. 2; 311 table 6).
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Create a concordance of key terms only aer editing of the manu-
script is complete. A concordance compiled before this stage might
include terms subsequently edited out and/or might omit terms add-
ed during editing. Similarly, any editing done aer the index is gen-
erated could shi key terms to pages other than those indicated in
the index. If you add or delete key terms during proofreading and
correcting page proofs, be sure to update the concordance to reect
those changes. You can create a concordance as follows:
1. Create a new document on your word processor.
2. Open the le (preface, chapter, etc.) to be indexed.
a. Select and copy a key term.
b. Paste the term onto the newly created concordance le.
(Copying and pasting are preferable to keying-in the term
since the latter introduces the possibility of error.)
3. Repeat this process until you have listed all key terms (in a sin-
gle column, with each term on a separate line) in the concor-
dance le.
4. Periodically, you may wish to alphabetize the terms in the con-
cordance by using the word processor’s “sort” feature. By doing
so, you can tell at a glance whether or not you have entered
duplicate terms (include the key term in the concordance only
once, regardless of how oen it occurs in the manuscript).
Note to authors submitting book manuscripts for publication by
AU Press: You are responsible for submitting a seed list of key terms
to be indexed, from which your editor will build a concordance. See
the instructions for submitting manuscripts in part 2 of this style
guide. AU Press will generate the index, and your editor will edit it
according to the procedures described below.
Indexing soware uses the concordance to generate an index that
includes the page numbers on which the entries appear. You should
then edit the index, taking into account such features as the following:
1. main entries (alphabetized [see discussion below]) and the page
number(s) on which they appear (main entries are lowercased
unless they are proper nouns and are punctuated with commas;
subsequent lines are indented; and personal names are in inverted
order [last name rst]):
bracketing, 15, 61, 72,
75, 91
Chennault, Claire, 9
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2. subentries (alphabetized) and the page number(s) on which
they appear:
Brittany, 597; aireld campaign in, 165; Allied base in,
270; as part of Overlord, 68; rail targets in, 217, 249
Cobra: air operations, 232–34; air-tank cooperation,
239–42; artillery spotting, 270; bomb results,
234–37
3. cross-references. See references (in italics) direct the reader to
the full entry:
Persian Gulf War. See Gulf War
See also references (in italics) direct the reader to additional
information:
D-day, 46–47, 49, 116. See also Operation Overlord
Alphabetize index entries according to the letter-by-letter system,
explained and illustrated as follows by the Chicago Manual of Style,
16th edition, sections 16.59 and 16.61:
In the letter-by-letter system, alphabetizing continues up to the rst pa-
renthesis or comma; it then starts again aer the punctuation point. Spac-
es and all other punctuation marks are ignored. Both open and hyphen-
ated compounds such as New York or self-pity are treated as single words.
e order of precedence is one word, word followed by a parenthesis,
word followed by a comma, then (ignoring spaces and other punctua-
tion) word followed by a number, and word followed by letters. . . .
NEW (Neighbors Ever Watchful)
NEW (Now End War)
New, Arthur
New, Zoe
new-12 compound
newborn
newcomer
New Deal
new economics
newel
New England
new-fangled notions
Newfoundland
newlyweds
new math
new/old continuum
news, lamentable
News, Networks, and the Arts
newsboy
news conference
newsletter
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News of the World (Queen)
news release
newt
NEWT (Northern Estuary Wind Tunnel)
New orndale
new town
New Year’s Day
Omit an initial the used informally with place-names, organiza-
tions, and businesses (Bronx, University of Alabama, Kobek Group).
Omit an initial e in the titles of English-language newspapers,
magazines, and journals (New York Times, New Republic, Air and
Space Power Journal). For foreign newspapers, magazines, and jour-
nals, place an initial article (e.g., La, Die) at the end of the title, pre-
ceded by a comma (Monde, Le; Spiegel, Der; Revue Maritime, La). For
other English-language titles, place an initial A, An, or e at the end
of the title, preceded by a comma (“Death in the Desert, A”; “Apology,
An”; Sound and the Fury, e). Omit subtitles in both main entries
and subentries. However, if the subtitle is necessary for distinguish-
ing one entry from another, leave an initial A, An, or e as is (Air
Expeditionary Force, e: A Strategy for an Uncertain Future?). For
other foreign titles, leave an initial article as is, and do not ignore it in
alphabetizing (Eine kleine Nachtmusik). For all titles, leave an initial
preposition as is, and do not ignore it in alphabetizing.
“For Him I Sing
Hairy Ape, e
For purposes of alphabetizing, do not ignore articles, prepositions,
and conjunctions occurring in a main entry. In alphabetizing suben-
tries, however, ignore initial articles, prepositions, and conjunctions.
A-10s over Kosovo [word followed by a number has higher prece-
dence; see above]
Air and Space Power Journal
Airpower, Chaos, and Infrastructure [word followed by a comma has
higher precedence; see above]
Airpower and Ground Armies
Air Power and Maneuver Warfare
Airpower and the Ground War in Vietnam
Airpower in the Context of a Dysfunctional Joint Doctrine
Airpower versus Terrorism
Air-to-Ground Battle for Italy
Churchill, Winston: as anti-Fascist,
369; on Curzon line, 348, 379; and
de Gaulle, 544
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In names, initials come before spelled-out names beginning with
the same letter.
Travers, P. Lyndon
Travers, Pamela
Index an abbreviation as a main entry, followed by the full name in
parentheses. Alphabetize abbreviations according to the letters that
comprise them, not according to their full names.
ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile)
IG (inspector general)
In an index containing relatively few entries beginning with nu-
merals, alphabetize them as if they were spelled out. Numerous such
entries should appear at the beginning of the index, before the “A” en-
tries, in numerical order.
“Nine Lives
19th Century Masters
“Nineteenth Sunday aer Trinity”
1st Special Operations Wing
2nd Wing
5th Allied Tactical Air Force
8th Fighter-Bomber Wing
9th Fighter Squadron
12th Wing
16th Special Operations Squadron
23rd Fighter Squadron
24th Marine Amphibious Unit
31st Fighter Wing
Arrange similar entries containing numerals in numerical order.
JP 1-0, Joint Personnel Support
JP 3-02, Amphibious Operations
JP 4-01.2, Seali Support to Joint Operations
JP 5-0, Joint Operation Planning
Alphabetize names beginning with “Mac” or “Mc” and names with
Saint” or “St.” letter by letter, as they are.
MacCauley, Henry
Madison, James
McLaughlin, John
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McMillan, William
Saint Clair, Charles
Saint John, Albert
St. Laurent, Ron
St. Martin, Howard
For a detailed treatment of indexing, see the Chicago Manual of
Style, 16th edition, chapter 16. See also Arabic terms and names (1.10).
1.38 Internet address. See URL (uniform [or universal] resource locator)
(2.486) and DOI (digital object identier) (2.142).
1.39 Islam (n.), Islamic (adj.). Merriam-Webster’s dictionary oers the
following meanings for Islam: “e religious faith of Muslims includ-
ing belief in Allah as the sole deity and in Muhammad as his prophet;
the civilization erected upon Islamic faith; the group of modern na-
tions in which Islam is the dominant religion.
1.40 Islamism (n.). Merriam-Websters dictionary oers the following
meanings for Islamism: “e faith, doctrine, or cause of Islam; a pop-
ular reform movement advocating the reordering of government and
society in accordance with laws prescribed by Islam.
1.41 Islamist (n.). An adherent of Islamism (see 1.40).
1.42 latitude, longitude. Spell out the terms latitude and longitude in text
or standing alone: longitude 80 degrees east; the polar latitudes, from
20° 50’ north latitude to 20° 50’ south latitude. In tables you may ab-
breviate as follows:
lat 41°15΄40" N
long 90°18΄30" W
1.43 lists. Run lists into the text or set them apart vertically. Use Arabic
numerals in both styles. For a run-in list, enclose the numbers in pa-
rentheses without a period. Use commas to separate items in a simple
series if there is little or no punctuation within the items; otherwise,
use semicolons:
Plain English standards include the following: (1) present material in
a logical, orderly sequence, (2) write in a clear, uncluttered style, and
(3) write in active voice.
Note that items in the series should be syntactically parallel.
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Introduce a vertical list with a grammatically complete sentence,
usually followed by a colon. If you number the items, use numerals
with periods and capitalize the rst word in each item; if the items
arent numbered, lowercase all words (except proper nouns, abbre-
viations usually in uppercase, etc.). e items need not have end
punctuation unless they are complete sentences. Like the items in
a run-in list, those in a vertical list should be syntactically parallel.
If the items in the list complete the sentence that introduces them,
lowercase the rst word in each item, follow each item with a comma
or semicolon, and place a period at the end of the last item. Set the
list ush with the text or indent. Align run-over lines with the rst
word aer the numeral:
e following steps increase your eectiveness as a communicator:
1. Use English that is alive.
2. Analyze the purpose and audience, taking care to select a subject
that will be of interest to the audience.
3. Conduct the research.
4. Support your ideas.
Compose three sentences:
1. To illustrate the use of commas in dates
2. To distinguish the use of semicolons from the use of periods
3. To illustrate the use of parentheses within dashes
e ve categories of research sources are as follows:
abstracts of student papers
Air Force sources
DOD sources
periodicals
other sources
e loan ocer told Richard to
1. ll out the application forms,
2. make a copy for himself, and
3. return all paperwork in one week.
1.44 mottoes. Enclose mottoes and similar expressions in quotation
marks, capitalize them as if they were titles, or capitalize the rst
word only:
A penny saved is a penny earned” was his favorite maxim.
e ag bore the motto Dont Tread on Me.
He was fond of the motto All for one and one for all.
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1.45 Negro, Negroes. Do not use these terms except in historical cita-
tions: “In October 1940, the War Department announced . . . that
Negro Aviation Units would be organized as soon as the necessary
personnel were trained.
1.46 nicknames. Enclose a nickname in quotation marks when it accom-
panies the full name:
George Herman “Babe” Ruth
Omit the quotation marks when a nickname is used as part of or in
place of a personal name:
Stonewall Jackson
the Iron Duke
1.47 percent. Always spell out percent in humanistic text, and precede it
with Arabic numerals: a 3 percent increase. You may use the % sym-
bol in tables and in scientic or statistical text.
1.48 personal information. Do not include information of a person-
al nature in your manuscript (e.g., mentioning the name of your
spouse and/or children, your place of birth, etc.—anything that
would make you easier to identify—in the acknowledgments or in a
biographical sketch).
1.49 preliminaries. See front matter (1.32).
1.50 profanity. Do not arbitrarily use profanity, vulgarity, abusive/oen-
sive language, and so forth, in any of the writing you do under the
auspices of Air University. When quoting passages that contain such
terms, you may leave them out entirely, inserting ellipses (see 3.2.7)
to mark the omissions; substitute “[expletive deleted]”; or use hy-
phens for all letters except the rst (e.g., s---).
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1.51 proofreaders’ marks. e following signs are used in marking manu-
scripts:
Delete
Insert em dash
Delete and close up
Insert en dash
Close up; delete space
Insert semicolon
Insert space
Insert colon
Begin new paragraph
Insert period
Indent one em from le
Insert question mark
or right
Move to le
Query to author—in
margin
Move to right
Spell out
Center
Transpose
Move down
Wrong font; set in
correct type
Move up
Set in boldface type
Insert marginal addition
Set in roman type
Flush le
Straighten type; align
Set in italic type—
horizontally underscore word
Flush right
Align vertically
Set in capital letters
Insert comma Set in small capitals
Insert apostrophe (or Set in lowercase
single quotation mark)
Insert quotation marks Caps and lowercase
Insert here or make L Lowercase letter
subscript (H
2
0)
Insert here or make
Let it stand; restore
superscript (a
2
) words crossed out
Insert hyphen
NOTE: If you want to underline a word for emphasis, you must so indicate in a
marginal note to the printer. All words underscored in a typed manuscript
without such a note will always appear in italics.
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e following paragraph illustrates the use of proofreaders’ marks:
HOW AN EDITOR MARKS A MANUSCRIPT
Editing a manuscipt from which type is to be set
requires a different method than that used in correcting
proof.
1
A correction or an operational sign are inserted in
a line of type not in the margins as in proof reading.
Operators looks at every line of the manuscript as they
set type, so any editors change must be in it’s proper
place and clearly written.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
For more information on proofreaders’ marks, see the 16th edition
of the Chicago Manual of Style, 2.116–.129.
1.52 retired military personnel. Use this style in running text: Maj Ron-
ald R. Dowdy, USAF, retired. Use “Retired” (with an initial capital
letter) in a stand-alone context (e.g., a byline or an epigraph).
1.53 running heads. Running heads, located at the tops of pages of pub-
lished works, serve as reference points for readers. When included in
a book, they also appear on the pages of the contents, preface, fore-
word, and so forth (but not on the rst page of those parts) when they
run more than one page. Use the same running head (e.g., Contents,
Preface, etc.) on both the verso (le) and recto (right) pages of these
front-matter elements. Headings should not appear on display pages
such as the title, disclaimer, dedication, and so forth.
Do not put a running head on the rst page of a chapter, part ti-
tles, or any page containing only a table or an illustration. If a page
includes both a table (or an illustration) and lines of text, however,
include a running head. e following are some acceptable arrange-
ments for running heads on text pages (for others, see the 16th edi-
tion of the Chicago Manual of Style, 1.11):
Verso Recto
Part title Chapter title
Chapter title Chapter title
Chapter title Chapter subtitle
Chapter number Chapter title
Author (multiauthor books) Chapter title
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Including the book title as a running head on the verso page is no
longer common practice since most readers know what book they’re
reading and would rather have running heads tell them where they
are in the book.
Acceptable arrangements for running heads in the back matter in-
clude the following:
Verso Recto
Appendix A Title of appendix
Appendix Appendix (if not titled)
Glossary Glossary
Bibliography Bibliography
Bibliography Section title
Index Index
Use running heads on the text pages and those of the front and back
matter of any AU Press publication (whether book or monograph)
that contains chapters. If a publication does not contain chapters, do
not use running heads on either the text pages or those of the front
and back matter. For publications that contain chapters, use running
heads in accordance with the guidance above (e.g., if the foreword,
preface, etc. runs more than one page). Select running heads for the
text and front/back matter from the options specied above.
1.54 Russia, Russian. Use Russia and Russian in reference to the nation
before 1917; to the former Russian Soviet Socialist Republic; to the
independent state formed aer the breakup of the Soviet Union in
1991; and to the language and the ethnological origin of the people
of that state. See also CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States)
(2.105); Soviet(s), Soviet Union, USSR (1.59).
1.55 semiannual. Avoid semiannual; use twice a year instead.
1.56 sexist language. Do not use terms that denigrate or patronize people
(e.g., the weaker sex), that stereotype occupations by sex (e.g., always
referring to a nurse as she or a pilot as he), or that exclude either sex
from positions of authority (e.g., a commander should brief his s t a
on new policy).
You may use pairs of masculine and feminine pronouns (his or her,
he or she, him or her) in reference to antecedents whose sex is unspec-
ied (every patient had his or her temperature checked). Such ref-
erences can become numerous and awkward, however, so use them
sparingly. You can avoid this problem by making both the pronoun
and antecedent plural (all patients had their temperatures checked).
If the antecedent is an indenite pronoun (each, either, neither, one,
no one, everyone, someone, anyone, nobody, everybody, somebody,
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anybody), which is considered singular, use a pair of singular pro-
nouns—not a plural pronoun—to refer to it (everyone had his or her
temperature checked [instead of] everyone had their temperature
checked). Avoid the practice of alternating masculine and feminine
pronouns in referring to antecedents of unspecied sex (using she in
one passage and he in another) since this may be confusing to read-
ers. Similarly, avoid such clumsy combinations as he/she and s/he as
pronouns of common gender.
You may use she (and appropriate variants) in reference to nations,
cities, and ships (Britain must guard her traditions).
You may use he (and appropriate variants) in reference to military
foes (the enemy had massed his forces on the border).
You may use man, whether freestanding or in compounds, in ref-
erences to occupations and oces (policeman, chairman, congress-
man) or to both men and women (mankind, manpower, free men).
However, if you nd such usage oensive or if you believe your au-
dience might, consider substituting gender-neutral terms (ocer,
chairperson or chair, member of Congress, persons, people).
1.57 sic (so; thus; in this manner). Use sic, italicized and bracketed, to
indicate misspelling or improper usage in the original text:
e newscaster announced that “the pilot got out of his plane and laid
[sic] down on the ground aer his harrowing ight.
1.58 so-called. A word or words following so-called should not be en-
closed in quotation marks or italicized:
e so-called model citizen beat his wife regularly.
1.59 Soviet(s), Soviet Union, USSR. Use Soviet(s), Soviet Union, or USSR
instead of Russian(s) or Russia in references to the people or the na-
tion from 1917 to 1991. See also CIS (Commonwealth of Indepen-
dent States) (2.105).
1.60 subheadings. Use up to three levels of subheadings to divide text:
centered (rst level), ush and hang (second level), and run-in (third
level) (note that the period at the end of a run-in subheading is not
in boldface). Use headline-style capitalization for centered and ush-
and-hang subheadings; use sentence-style capitalization for run-in
subheadings. If text is partitioned, it should be divided into at least
two parts (i.e., at least two centered, at least two ush-and-hang, and
at least two run-in subheadings). You may immediately follow an
upper-level subheading with a lower-level subheading without inter-
vening text.
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Observations [centered]
Why the Composite Wing Worked So Well [ush and hang]
e composite training undergone by the wings personnel
contributed to the successful completion of their mission. . . .
Evaluation and inspection. [run-in] Tactical evaluations,
operational readiness inspections, and other exercises have created a
solid foundation of training in both units and individuals. . . .
If you wish, you may place a superscript note number at the end of
a subheading in a book chapter or journal article or at the end of the
title of a journal article (but not a books chapter title):
Special Operations Aviation: A Legacy of Neglect
6
Even though the US Army recorded the rst use of aircra in
an irregular campaign (the 1916 Mexican Punitive Expedition), the US
Marine Corps foresaw the utility of airpower as a niche capability. . . .
1.61 subtitle. Use a colon to separate a title from its subtitle. One space
follows the colon. If the title is written in sentence style, the rst word
of the subtitle (following the colon) is capitalized. Alternatively, the
subtitle may be set in a smaller size font than that of the main title (no
colon).
Skating on in Ice: A Study of Honesty in Political Campaigning
Skating on thin ice: A study of honesty in political campaigning
Skating on in Ice
A Study of Honesty in Political Campaigning
1.62 tables. Tables permit the economical presentation of large amounts
of information. Number all tables and refer to them in the text by
those numbers, either directly or parenthetically. In referring to a table,
dont just repeat the facts presented in the table. Most of the time, a
simple cross-reference is sucient (e.g., see table 10). Number the
tables (with Arabic numerals) in the order in which they appear in
the text. Numbering is continuous throughout the text. However, if a
book consists of chapters by dierent authors, the numbering restarts
with each chapter (e.g., 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, etc.). If a book has
appendixes with tables, the table numbers should include the letter of
the particular appendix (A.1, A.2, B.1, B.2, C.1, C.2, etc.).
Place the numbered title, written in sentence style, above the table,
ush le. You may separate the tables number from its title by using
either a period or (if the table number and caption are typographi-
cally dierent) a space. Choose one style and use it consistently.
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Table 3. Army and air component budgets, 1922–41
TABLE 3 Army and air component budgets, 1922–41
Note that the table designation and caption may be set in boldface:
Table 2. Two assessment information requirements
e title should identify the table and give facts rather than pro-
vide discussion and comment:
Table 3. Improvement of prediction of peer leadership characteristics
Not:
Table 3. Improvement of prediction of peer leadership characteristics by addi-
tion of other managerial leadership characteristics
If the table continues to other pages, use a notation such as Table
3 (continued) at the top of the next page. Parenthetical information
included in the title should be lowercased:
Table 13. Federal employees in the progressive era (total plus selected agencies)
A table must have at least two columns. At the top of the columns,
include headings that identify the material in the columns. Do not
use vertical rules to separate the columns. Make the rst column
heading singular in number (e.g., Party). e other headings may
be singular or plural (e.g., Votes, Seats won). Preferably, all headings
should be in sentence-style capitalization. If you include subheadings
with the column headings, enclose them in parentheses. You may use
abbreviations in the subheadings. Because the width of the column
headings determines the width of the table, keep the headings as brief
as possible.
List the names of items in the le-hand column (stub) of your ta-
ble; use sentence-style capitalization and put information about them
in the other columns. Be sure that items in the stub are grammatically
parallel. Do not number stub items and do not use ditto marks in the
stub. Indent runover lines one em. Write stub items in sentence style,
without a period at the end:
Computers at headquarters
Dell
HP
Apple
Printers at headquarters
Brother
Canon
Lexmark
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If the word “Total” appears at the end of the stub, its indention should
be greater than any preceding it.
Align a column of gures on the decimal points or commas. Also
align dollar signs and percentage signs. If all gures in a column are
the same kind, place the dollar signs and percentage signs only at the
top of the column and aer any horizontal rule cutting across it. Omit
the signs if the table title or column head shows what the gures are.
In a column consisting of information expressed in words, center
all items if they are short, but ush them le if they are long.
If you wish to refer to specic parts of a table, use superscript let-
ters—beginning with a—as reference marks. You may use them on
column headings, on stub items, and in the body of the table—but
not on the table number or title. Place the reference marks beginning
at the upper le and extending across the table and downward, row
by row. If you reproduce a table from another source, identify it be-
low the body of the table, introduced by the word Source(s) (oen in
italics and followed by a colon). Or, since the word source lacks speci-
city, consider using reprinted from (unless fair use applies [see ap-
pendix C], obtain permission from the copyright holder) or adapted
from, depending upon whether you have copied the table or modied
it, respectively. Do not identify the source by placing a note number
aer either the table number or the title and then including an end-
note in the list of chapter notes. If you include a note about the entire
table, place it aer the source and precede it with the word “Note
and a colon.
If you include a list of tables, place it on a separate page, follow-
ing the list of illustrations (which is on a separate page, following the
table of contents). Title it “Tables” (without the quotation marks), but
cite it in the table of contents as “List of Tables” (without the quota-
tion marks). If you have only a few tables, you may include them in
the list of illustrations, under the subhead “Tables” (without the quo-
tation marks).
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Foreword
About the Author
Preface
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Table 1. Sorties flown in Operation Desert Storm
Total
Sortie Allies USAF Other US coalition
AI
a
4,600 24,000 11,900 40,500
OCA
b
1,400 4,500 600 6,500
CAS
c
0 1,500 1,500 3,000
Total strike sorties
d
6,000 30,000 14,000 50,000
Aerial refueling 1,500 10,000 1,500 13,000
DCA
e
4,100 3,200 2,700 10,000
SEAD
f
0 2,800 1,200 4,000
Tactical airlift 4,300 14,000 0 18,300
Other
g
1,100 6,000 7,900 15,000
Total nonstrike sorties 11,000 36,000 13,300 60,300
Approximate grand total of all Desert Storm sorties 110,300
Reprinted from Department of the Air Force, Air Force Performance in Desert Storm (Washington, DC [or
D.C.]: Government Printing Oce, April 1991); and author’s collation of published data.
Note: ese gures represent the most reliable information currently available.
a
Air interdiction—in this case a conation of both strategic (against Iraqi installations) and operational
(against Iraqi air, ground, and naval forces) bombing, including battleeld interdiction (against Iraqi forces
behind the front).
b
Oensive counterair (i.e., attacks against Iraqi air force bases and related facilities).
c
Close air support (i.e., attacks against Iraqi ground forces at the front).
d
Strike as here dened includes all aircra that penetrated hostile airspace in the course of ground-attack
missions, with or without ground-attack ordnance of their own.
e
Defensive counterair (i.e., air defense patrols and intercepts).
f
Suppression of enemy air defenses (i.e., attacks against Iraqi antiaircra missiles, guns, and related radar
and other facilities).
g
Airborne early warning, airborne electronic surveillance, electronic warfare, and other.
1.63 the. If an initial the is part of the titles of journals, magazines, or
newspapers, incorporate it into the surrounding text:
Most of the people in the oce read the Wall Street Journal.
In note and bibliography entries, omit an initial the that is part of
the titles of journals, magazines, or newspapers:
1. Cameron W. Barr, “Mideast Takes a First Wary Step,Christian
Science Monitor, 30 June 2003.
See also index (1.37); abbreviations (2.0).
1.64 trademarks. e symbols ® and ™, which oen accompany registered
trademark names on product packaging and in advertisements, need
not be used in running text.
26 1.0 TERMS AND USAGE
Terms and Usage
1.65 Truman, Harry S. Use a period aer the S (even though the initial
doesnt stand for anything).
1.66 United States. Spell out United States in text when it is used as a
noun. See also abbreviations (2.0); US (United States) (2.487).
1.67 United States Air Force, US Air Force, Air Force, USAF. See also
USAF (United States Air Force) (2.489).
1.68 United States Army, US Army, Army, USA
1.69 United States Marine Corps, US Marine Corps, Marine Corps, the
Corps, USMC
1.70 United States Navy, US Navy, Navy, USN
1.71 upon (prep.). Upon may be used as a synonym of on: His salary de-
pends upon his performance.
1.72 vice (prep.). Vice can mean “in place of, replacing”: John Doe was ap-
pointed postmaster vice Richard Roe.
1.73 weapon system(s) or weapons system(s). Choose one variant of this
phrase, and use it consistently.
1.74 Web (or web) address. See URL (uniform [or universal] resource lo-
cator) (2.486) and DOI (digital object identier) (2.142); see also web
terms (4.1.154).
1.75 West Berlin, West Germany. Use West Berlin or West Germany, not
Berlin or Germany alone, in references to the city and country when
they were divided.
1.76 while. You may use while to mean “during the time that”:
Take a nap while I’m out.
or “as long as”:
While theres life, theres hope.
or “whereas”:
Skiing is easy for an expert, while it is dangerous for a novice.
or “although”:
While respected, he is not liked.
or “similarly and at the same time that”:
While the book will be welcomed by scholars, it will make an imme-
diate appeal to the general reader.
1.0 TERMS AND USAGE 27
Terms and Usage
1.77 white (people) (n., adj.). Use white (or White) ocer, white (or
White) people, whites (or Whites), Caucasians. See also black (peo-
ple) (1.19).
1.78 word division. Generally, you should follow the syllable division in-
dicated in the dictionary when you break words at the end of lines.
Note the following prohibitions: do not carry over a nal syllable whose
only vowel sound is that of a syllabic “l” (prin-ciples, not princi-ples);
do not carry over a vowel that forms a syllable in the middle of a word
(preju-dice, not prej-udice); do not divide a word if doing so would
result in a one-letter division (e.g., again, idol, item, unite); avoid car-
rying over two-letter endings (fully, not ful-ly); if possible, do not
break hyphenated compound words except at the hyphen (court-/
martial, not court-mar-/tial); words originally compounds of other
words but now spelled solid should be divided at the natural breaks
whenever possible (school-master is better than schoolmas-ter); also,
try to make a division aer a prex rather than dividing at any other
point in the word (dis-pleasure is better than displea-sure). Do not
end more than three succeeding lines in hyphens.
1.79 World War I (or 1), the First World War, the Great War, the war,
the world war
1.80 World War II (or 2), the Second World War, the war, the world war
1.81 Xerox. e term Xerox is a registered trademark. You can use the
capitalized word as a noun meaning a xerographic copier and the
lowercased word (xerox) as a verb meaning to copy on a Xerox copier.
1.82 zero, zeros (also zeroes [standard but used less frequently]). Use a
0 in tables to denote zero amount instead of using a dash or leaving
the space blank.
1.83 zip code or ZIP (zone improvement plan) code; zip (n.); zip-code
(v.). In writing a mailing address, do not use a comma before the ZIP
code (or aer, if including “USA”): Troy, AL 36081 USA.
2.0 ABBREVIATIONS 29
Abbreviations
2.0 Abbreviations
e broader term “abbreviations” includes acronyms (AMRAAM),
initialisms (RPA), and contractions (Dr.). Use abbreviations sparingly:
dont abbreviate words and phrases merely for the sake of doing so
when brevity is not of the essence, and dont saturate writing with ab-
breviations to the detriment of reader comprehension.
Avoid using abbreviations in headings unless the spelled-out term
would make the heading unwieldy. You may, however, begin or end a
sentence with an abbreviation.
Spell out the name of an agency, organization, and so forth, the
rst time you use it, and follow it with the abbreviation in parenthe-
ses; you may use the abbreviation (without periods) thereaer. (If you
are certain that your audience is familiar with a particular abbrevia-
tion [e.g., AFB, CNN, USAF], you need not dene it on rst usage.)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Air Command and Sta College (ACSC)
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
program evaluation review technique (PERT)
professional military education (PME)
As a reminder to the reader, you may want to spell out an abbrevia-
tion that you have identied previously—especially when you havent
used it in a long time—and then resume using the abbreviation (it
isnt necessary to include it again parenthetically aer the subsequent
spelled-out form):
e Pioneer remotely piloted aircra provided substantial imagery sup-
port to Marine, Army, and Navy units during Operation Desert Storm.
ese RPAs were so good that many more could have been used.
Because readers may not look at the elements of the front matter
consecutively (if at all), establish abbreviations within each element
independently (foreword, preface, abstract, etc.). For example, even
if you have established “AWACS” in the foreword (Airborne Warn-
ing and Control System [AWACS]), reestablish this abbreviation if it
occurs later in the front matter (e.g., in the preface). Reestablish ab-
breviations starting in the body of the publication (e.g., rst chapter,
section, part, etc.) even though they appear in the front matter. e
same principle holds true for elements of the back matter and for a
book collection of essays by dierent authors. For example, reestab-
lish abbreviations in an appendix even if you have used them in the
front matter or body, and reestablish abbreviations in each essay even
if you have used them in other essays in the book.
30 2.0 ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviations
Although the rst appearance of a term to be abbreviated may be
plural or possessive, do not make the abbreviation plural or posses-
sive: remotely piloted vehicles (RPV); two concepts of operations
(CONOPS); law of armed conicts (LOAC). Use the plural or pos-
sessive form for subsequent occurrences of the abbreviation, when
appropriate: RPVs, two CONOPS, LOAC’s. Consider an abbreviation
a singular noun: the PGM is. . . .
Generally, use the with an abbreviation if you would use the de-
nite article with the spelled-out term unless the combination seems
awkward:
He works for the DOD.
e city is home to many DOD employees.
NATO found itself at a crossroads.
Use capital letters for the abbreviations of computer-le extensions
such as PDF, GIF, and JPG (or JPEG) unless they are actually append-
ed to le names (f22.jpg).
Although an abbreviation may be in all capital letters, the spelled-
out term isnt necessarily capitalized:
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
precision-guided munition (PGM)
Italicize an abbreviation if you would italicize its spelled-out form
(note that the parentheses are not italicized):
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
Spell out the names of countries in text when they are used as
nouns (however, you may use USSR [Union of Soviet Socialist Re-
publics] to refer to the country as it existed between 1917 and 1991).
If space is a consideration, you may abbreviate the names of countries
in tables, lists, notes, and so forth.
United States (US)
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
United Kingdom (UK)
France (Fr.)
Germany (Ger.)
Israel (Isr.)
See also CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) (2.105); US
(United States) (2.487); USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
(2.508).
2.0 ABBREVIATIONS 31
Abbreviations
Abbreviate civilian and military titles or ranks that precede a per-
sons full name. Do not use periods with these abbreviations. Spell out
titles or ranks that precede a persons last name only (see also military
titles and oces [2.296]):
Adm Chester W. Nimitz Admiral Nimitz
Vice Adm John Smith Vice Admiral [or Admiral] Smith
Rear Adm Michael Wiggins Rear Admiral [or Admiral] Wiggins
Cdr Henry Price Commander Price
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris Air Marshal Harris
Gen Norton Schwartz General Schwartz
Brig Gen James Stewart Brigadier General [or General]
Stewart
Lt Col Martin L. Green Lieutenant Colonel [or Colonel]
Green
Maj Frank T. Boothe Major Boothe
Capt Donald D. Martin Captain Martin
1st Lt Peter N. Cushing First Lieutenant [or Lieutenant]
Cushing
2d [or 2nd] Lt Boyd D. Yeats Second Lieutenant [or Lieutenant]
Ye ats
CMSgt Robert Patterson Chief Master Sergeant [or Chief or
Sergeant] Patterson
MSgt Walter Austin Master Sergeant [or Sergeant]
Austin
A1C K. L. Jones Airman First Class [or Airman]
Jones
Prof. Harold Bloom Professor Bloom
Assoc. Prof. John Cooper Associate Professor [or Professor]
Cooper
Asst. Prof. Dwight Hicks Assistant Professor [or Professor]
Hicks
Gov. Robert Bentley Governor Bentley
Amb. John D. Negroponte Ambassador Negroponte
Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL) Representative Sewell
Cong. Mike Rogers (R-AL) Congressman Rogers
Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) or Senator Shelby
Sen. Richard Shelby
President Barack Obama or President Obama
Pres. Barack Obama
Rev. John Brannon the Reverend John Brannon
Hon. James Lunsford the Honorable James Lunsford
Abbreviate titles such as Mr., Mrs., and Dr. when they precede either
a full name or last name.
Spell out a unit of measure on rst usage, follow it with the abbre-
viation in parentheses, and use the abbreviation thereaer. English
units of measure in unscientic text include periods: lb., mi., in., ., qt.,
32 2.0 ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviations
gal. Capitalize abbreviations for terms derived from proper names
(e.g., Hz). Singular and plural abbreviated forms for units of measure
are the same (e.g., 5 lb.). See also numbers (4.3).
gallon gal.
hertz Hz
kilogram kg
miles per hour mph
degrees Celsius 70° C
revolutions per minute rpm
kilometer km
millimeter mm
pounds per square inch psi
nautical mile nm
Spell out the names of states when they occur in text. In notes, bib-
liographies, tables, gures, mailing addresses, and so forth, use the
two-letter abbreviations of the US Postal Service.
AL KS ND
AK KY OH
AS (American Samoa) LA OK
AZ ME OR
AR MD PA
CA MA PR (Puerto Rico)
CO MI RI
CT MN SC
DE MS SD
DC MO TN
FL MT TX
GA NE UT
GU (Guam) NV VT
HI NH VA
ID NJ VI (Virgin Islands)
IL NM WA
IN NY WV
IA NC WI
WY
In notes, bibliographies, and reference lists, you may use abbrevi-
ations freely, but be consistent. You may also use abbreviated forms
in parenthetical references. Use the following terms: vol. 1, bk. 1, pt.
2, no. 2, chap. 2, g. 4, art. 3, sec. 4, par. 5, col. 6, p. 7, n.d. (no date).
e plurals are vols., bks., pts., nos., chaps., gs., arts., secs., pars.,
cols., pp.
2.1 A4/6 (Education Logistics and Communications). Formerly AFIADL
(Air Force Institute for Advanced Distributed Learning)
2.2 AAA (antiaircra artillery)
2.3 AAM (air-to-air missile)
2.0 ABBREVIATIONS 33
Abbreviations
2.4 AB (air base). Cite a rst reference to a specic air base as follows:
Rhein-Main Air Base (AB), Germany. Subsequent references: Rhein-
Main AB, Germany; the air base; the base.
2.5 ABCCC (airborne battleeld command and control center)
2.6 ABD (air base defense)
2.7 ABL (airborne laser)
2.8 ABM (antiballistic missile)
2.9 academic degrees and titles. Abbreviate academic degrees and titles
(no periods) aer a personal name. See also associates degree (4.1.21);
bachelors degree (4.1.22); doctorate (4.1.55); master’s degree (4.1.96).
BA
MA
PhD
LLD
MD
DDS
2.10 ACC (Air Combat Command)
2.11 ACCE (air component coordination element)
2.12 ACSC (Air Command and Sta College)
2.13 AD (anno Domini). Use either small caps with or without periods or
full caps without periods (choose one style and use it consistently); the
abbreviation precedes the year: AD 107. See also BC (before Christ)
(2.75, 4.1.26), BCE (before the common era) (2.76), CE (of the com-
mon era) (2.98).
2.14 ADCON (administrative control)
2.15 ADVON (advanced echelon)
2.16 AEF (air and space expeditionary force)
2.17 AEG (air expeditionary group)
2.18 AETC (Air Education and Training Command)
2.19 AETF (air and space expeditionary task force)
2.20 AEW (airborne early warning; air and space expeditionary wing)
2.21 AFB (Air Force base). Because of its familiarity, you need not spell
out this abbreviation on rst usage: Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Subse-
quent references: the Air Force base; the base. In notes and bibliogra-
phies, abbreviate the name of the state: Maxwell AFB, AL.
34 2.0 ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviations
2.22 AFCC (Air Force component commander)
2.23 AFCENT (US Air Forces Central)
2.24 AFCERT (Air Force computer emergency response team)
2.25 AFDC (Air Force Doctrine Center). Now the Curtis E. LeMay Center
for Doctrine Development and Education.
2.26 AFDD (Air Force doctrine document). No longer used. See “Doc-
trine Publications, Manuals, Instructions, Directives, and Others” in
Appendix A: Note Citations” and “Appendix B: Bibliographic En-
tries.
2.27 AFFOR (Air Force forces)
2.28 AFHRA (Air Force Historical Research Agency)
2.29 AFI (Air Force instruction)
2.30 AFIT (Air Force Institute of Technology)
2.31 AFLC (Air Force Logistics Command)
2.32 AFLNO (Air Force liaison ocer)
2.33 AFMAN (Air Force manual)
2.34 AFMC (Air Force Materiel Command)
2.35 AFOATS (Air Force Ocer Accession and Training Schools)
2.36 AFOSI (Air Force Oce of Special Investigations)
2.37 AFPAM (Air Force pamphlet)
2.38 AFPD (Air Force policy directive)
2.39 AFRC (Air Force Reserve Command). See also Reserve(s) (4.1.124).
2.40 AFRI (Air Force Research Institute)
2.41 AFROTC (Air Force Reserve Ocer Training Corps)
2.42 AFSOC (Air Force Special Operations Command)
2.43 AFSPC (Air Force Space Command)
2.44 AFTTP (Air Force tactics, techniques, and procedures)
2.45 AF/XO (Deputy Chief of Sta for Plans and Operations, USAF)
2.46 AF/XOI (Air Force Director of Intelligence, Surveillance, and
Reconnaissance)
2.47 AI (air interdiction)
2.0 ABBREVIATIONS 35
Abbreviations
2.48 AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
2.49 AIDS (acquired immune deciency syndrome)
2.50 ALCM (air launched cruise missile)
2.51 ALO (air liaison ocer)
2.52 a.m. (ante meridiem [before noon]). Either write the abbreviation
in lowercase with periods or set it in small caps with or without peri-
ods (choose one style and use it consistently): 9:00 a.m.
2.53 AMC (Air Mobility Command)
2.54 ampersand (&). Whenever a title occurs in a manuscript (e.g., in
running text, tables, notes, bibliography entries, etc.), use and rather
than an ampersand (e.g., Aviation Week and Space Technology instead
of Aviation Week & Space Technology). You may use either an amper-
sand or and in company names (e.g., either Harper & Row or Harper
and Row) in notes, bibliography entries, tables, and so forth—select
either an ampersand or and, and use it consistently. When company
names occur in running text, however, use and rather than an amper-
sand unless the ocial name of the company includes the latter. Do
not put a space before or aer an ampersand used in an abbreviation
(e.g., R&D).
2.55 AMRAAM (advanced medium-range air-to-air missile)
2.56 ANG (Air National Guard). Capitalize the shortened title: the
Guard, but guardsman.
2.57 ANZUS (Australia–New Zealand–United States Treaty)
2.58 AO (area of operations)
2.59 AOC (air operations center; air and space operations center)
2.60 AOR (area of responsibility)
2.61 ARM (antiradiation missile)
2.62 ARNG (Army National Guard). Shortened form: the Guard
2.63 ASAP (as soon as possible)
2.64 ASAT (antisatellite weapon)
2.65 ASBC (Air and Space Basic Course)
2.66 ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System)
2.67 ATAF (Allied Tactical Air Force [NATO])
36 2.0 ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviations
2.68 ATO (air tasking order)
2.69 AU (Air University)
2.70 AUL (Air University Library). See also MSFRIC (Muir S. Fairchild
Research Information Center) (2.312).
2.71 AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System)
2.72 AWC (Air War College)
2.73 AWOL (absent without leave)
2.74 base. See AB (air base) (2.4); AFB (Air Force base) (2.21).
2.75 BC (before Christ). Use either small caps with or without periods or
full caps without periods (choose one style and use it consistently);
the abbreviation follows the year: 240 BC. See also BCE (before the
common era) (2.76); AD (anno Domini) (2.13, 4.1.4).
2.76 BCE (before the common era). See also BC (before Christ) (2.75);
CE (of the common era) (2.98).
In 586 BCE, the Babylonians captured Jerusalem.
2.77 BDA (battle damage assessment)
2.78 BMD (ballistic missile defense)
2.79 BMDO (Ballistic Missile Defense Organization)
2.80 BPC (building partner/partnership capacity)
2.81 BRAC (base realignment and closure)
2.82 BVR (beyond visual range)
2.83 C2 (command and control)
2.84 C3 (command, control, and communications)
2.85 C3I (command, control, communications, and intelligence)
2.86 C4 (command, control, communications, and computers)
2.87 C4I (command, control, communications, computers, and intel-
ligence)
2.88 C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelli-
gence, surveillance, and reconnaissance)
2.89 CALCM (conventional air-launched cruise missile)
2.90 CAOC (combat [or combined] air operations center)
2.0 ABBREVIATIONS 37
Abbreviations
2.91 CAP (Civil Air Patrol; combat air patrol; crisis action planning)
2.92 CAS (close air support)
2.93 CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear)
2.94 CBU (cluster bomb unit)
2.95 CBW (chemical and biological warfare)
2.96 CCAF (Community College of the Air Force)
2.97 CCDR (combatant commander)
2.98 CE (of the common era). See also AD (anno Domini) (2.13), BCE
(before the common era) (2.76).
e years 66–70 CE mark the rst Jewish revolt against Rome.
2.99 CEP (circular error probable)
2.100 CFACC (combined force air component commander)
2.101 chapter. Abbreviate chapter in parenthetical references (chap. 5).
Lowercase and spell out the word in text. Use Arabic gures for
chapter numbers, even if the chapter numbers in the work cited are
spelled out or in Roman numerals. e same principle holds true for
other divisions of a book: part 1, section 3, book 7, volume 2.
2.102 CHOP (change of operational control)
2.103 CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
2.104 CINC (commander in chief). Use only in reference to the president
of the United States. Use CCDR (combatant commander) in refer-
ence to leaders of combatant or unied commands (e.g., the com-
mander of US Central Command).
2.105 CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States). An association of
sovereign states formed in 1991, including Russia and 11 other re-
publics formerly part of the Soviet Union. See also Soviet(s), Soviet
Union, USSR (1.59).
2.106 CJCS (chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Sta)
2.107 CNA (computer network attack)
2.108 CND (computer network defense)
2.109 CNO (chief of naval operations)
2.110 CO (commanding ocer)
2.111 COC (combat operations center)
38 2.0 ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviations
2.112 COCOM (combatant command)
2.113 COG (center of gravity)
2.114 COIN (counterinsurgency)
2.115 COMAFFOR (commander, Air Force forces)
2.116 COMPUSEC (computer security)
2.117 COMSAT (communications satellite)
2.118 CONOPS (concept of operations)
2.119 CONUS (continental United States)
2.120 CRAF (Civil Reserve Air Fleet)
2.121 CSAF (chief of sta, United States Air Force)
2.122 CSAR (combat search and rescue)
2.123 CV (aircra carrier; carrier)
2.124 CW (chemical warfare)
2.125 DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
2.126 DC or D.C. (District of Columbia)
2.127 DCGS (distributed common ground/surface system)
2.128 DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration)
2.129 DEFCON (defense readiness condition)
2.130 DFAS (Defense Finance and Accounting Service)
2.131 DHS (Department of Homeland Security)
2.132 DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency)
2.133 DIRMOBFOR (director of mobility forces)
2.134 DIRSPACEFOR (director of space forces)
2.135 DMPI (designated [or desired] mean point of impact)
2.136 DMSP (Defense Meteorological Satellite Program)
2.137 DMZ (demilitarized zone)
2.138 doctrine publications, instructions, manuals, pamphlets, and pol-
icy directives. For doctrine publications, see “Doctrine Publications,
Manuals, Instructions, Directives, and Others” in “Appendix A: Note
Citations” and “Appendix B: Bibliographic Entries.” For others, on
2.0 ABBREVIATIONS 39
Abbreviations
rst usage in the text, spell out the type of publication (instruction,
manual, etc.) and follow it with the abbreviation in parentheses; use
the abbreviation and number for subsequent references. Italicize the
title of the publication: Air Force Instruction (AFI) 90-201, Inspec-
tor General Activities (subsequent reference: AFI 90-201); Air Force
Manual (AFMAN) 37-104, Managing Information to Support the Air
Force Mission (subsequent reference: AFMAN 37-104); Army Field
Manual (FM) 27-10, e Law of Land Warfare (subsequent refer-
ence: FM 27-10); Air Force Pamphlet (AFPAM) 36-106, Supervisor’s
Records (subsequent reference: AFPAM 36-106); Air Force Policy
Directive (AFPD) 36-4, Air Force Civilian Training, Education, and
Development (subsequent reference: AFPD 36-4). For note and bib-
liography entries, see manuals, instructions, directives, and other
publications, p. 159 and p. 177 of this guide.
2.139 DOD (Department of Defense)
2.140 DODD (Department of Defense directive)
2.141 DODI (Department of Defense instruction)
2.142 DOI (digital object identier). Like a URL (see 2.486), a DOI is a
character string that locates a resource on the Internet. Unlike a URL,
which may change, a DOI is permanent, identifying the resource in
all of its forms (PDF, HTML, etc.) and including the latest URL for
the resource. Copying a DOI into a resolver such as the one found
at the DOI System website (http://www.doi.org/) or adding it to the
string http://dx.doi.org/ in your browser’s address bar will take you
to the resource. Because a DOI is permanent and therefore has more
stability than a URL, you should include a resources DOI (if avail-
able) rather than its URL in a note or bibliographic citation.
1. Steve Lawrence and C. Lee Giles, “Searching the World Wide Web,
Science 280, no. 5360 (3 April 1998): 99, doi:10.1126/science.280.5360.98.
Lawrence, Steve, and C. Lee Giles. “Searching the World Wide Web.Science
280, no. 5360 (3 April 1998): 98–100. doi:10.1126/science.280.5360.98.
In a printed work, if you must break a DOI, do so before a single
slash if possible. Do not break aer a dot since this looks like a period
at the end of a line and might confuse the reader; rather, place the dot
at the beginning of the next line. Do not hyphenate a word at the end
of a line since some DOIs contain hyphens as part of the address, and
do not leave a hyphen thats part of a DOI at the end of a line. Addi-
tionally, break before a tilde (~), a comma, an underline (_), a ques-
tion mark, a number sign (#), or a percent symbol; aer a colon or
double slash; and before or aer an equals sign or an ampersand (&).
40 2.0 ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviations
2.143 Dr. (doctor). Use a period with the abbreviation. See also abbrevia-
tions (2.0); Mr., Mrs., Ms. (2.310).
2.144 DRU (direct reporting unit)
2.145 DSN (Defense Switched Network)
2.146 EAF (expeditionary air and space force)
2.147 EBO (eects-based operation)
2.148 EELV (evolved expendable launch vehicle)
2.149 e.g. (for example). Avoid using e.g. in text; use for example instead.
Use the abbreviation, followed by a comma, only in parenthetical ref-
erences or tables.
2.150 ELINT (electronic intelligence)
2.151 EMP (electromagnetic pulse)
2.152 EO (executive order). Lowercase and spell out executive order in
general references when the number is not given: the executive order.
Always capitalize the term when a number accompanies it, but ab-
breviate the term with the number only aer spelling it out on rst
reference: Executive Order (EO) 1654, EO 1654, the executive order.
2.153 et al. (and others). Et al. follows the full name of the rst author
listed in a note reference to a work by more than three authors (note
that et is not an abbreviation and therefore has no period):
1. Jaroslav Pelikan et al., Religion and the University, York University
Invitation Lecture Series (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1964), 109.
2.154 etc. (and so forth). e spelled-out term et cetera is rarely used. Use
its abbreviation, etc., only in lists, tables, notes, and parenthetical ref-
erences. Use and so forth in running text, set o by commas.
Joan had a variety of candy bars in her purse (Baby Ruths, Snickers,
Mounds, etc.).
e animal shelter oered such dogs as terriers, Pomeranians, Chihua-
huas, and so forth, for adoption.
2.155 EU (European Union)
2.156 EW (early warning; electronic warfare)
2.157 F2T2EA (nd, x, track, target, engage, and assess)
2.158 FAC (forward air controller)
2.159 FAC(A) (forward air controller [airborne])
2.0 ABBREVIATIONS 41
Abbreviations
2.160 FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia)
2.161 FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
2.162 FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service)
2.163 FEBA (forward edge of the battle area)
2.164 FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
2.165 FID (foreign internal defense)
2.166 FLIR (forward-looking infrared)
2.167 FLOT (forward line of own troops)
2.168 FM (eld manual [Army])
2.169 FMV (full motion video)
2.170 FOA (eld operating agency)
2.171 FOB (forward operating/operations base)
2.172 FOIA (Freedom of Information Act)
2.173 FOUO (for ocial use only)
2.174 FP (force protection)
2.175 FPCON (force protection condition)
2.176 FRAG (fragmentation code)
2.177 frequencies. See abbreviations (2.0).
2.178 FS (ghter squadron)
2.179 FSCL (re support coordination line)
2.180 FW (ghter wing)
2.181 FY (scal year). FY 2004, FY 04
2.182 GAO (Government Accountability Oce)
2.183 GBU (guided bomb unit)
2.184 GCA (ground controlled approach)
2.185 GCI (ground control intercept)
2.186 general (military rank). See abbreviations (2.0); capitalization (4.1);
military titles and oces (2.296).
2.187 GEO (geosynchronous Earth orbit)
42 2.0 ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviations
2.188 g-force
2.189 GHz (gigahertz)
2.190 GIG (Global Information Grid)
2.191 GLCM (ground launched cruise missile)
2.192 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)
2.193 GO (general order). Lowercase and spell out general order in refer-
ences when the number is not given: the general order. Capitalize the
term when a number accompanies it, but abbreviate the term with
the number only aer spelling it out on rst occurrence: General Or-
der (GO) 6-325, GO 6-325, the general order.
2.194 GPS (Global Positioning System)
2.195 GSA (General Services Administration)
2.196 G suit
2.197 GWOT (global war on terrorism)
2.198 HARM (high-speed antiradiation missile)
2.199 HF (high frequency)
2.200 H-hour (specic time when an operation or exercise begins)
2.201 HIV (human immunodeciency virus)
2.202 HMMWV (high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle)
2.203 HMW (health, morale, and welfare)
2.204 HRO (humanitarian relief organization)
2.205 HUD (head-up display)
2.206 HUMINT (human intelligence)
2.207 HUMRO (humanitarian relief operation)
2.208 Hz (hertz)
2.209 IA (information assurance)
2.210 IADS (integrated air defense system)
2.211 ibid. (in the same place). Use the abbreviation “ibid.” (for “ibidem”)
in a note to refer to one work cited in the immediately preceding
note. Do not use “ibid.” if the preceding note cites more than one
source; instead, use a shortened form (5.5). Do not italicize this ab-
breviation in your notes. Do not use op. cit. (opere citato, “in the work
2.0 ABBREVIATIONS 43
Abbreviations
cited”) or loc. cit. (loco citato, “in the place cited”). Instead, use the
shortened form of the citation. You may also use “ibid.” to refer to a
work cited earlier in the same note.
7. Richard G. Davis, Carl A. Spaatz and the Air War in Europe (Wash-
ington, DC [or D.C.]: Oce of Air Force History, 1993), 331.
8. Ibid., 301. [same source as cited in preceding note, dierent page]
9. Ibid. [same page (i.e., 301)]
10. Gen Richard B. Myers, “A Word from the Chairman: Shi to a
Global Perspective,Air and Space Power Journal 17, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 5.
“By shiing our view from a regional to a global perspective, we will bet-
ter comprehend and respond to Americas security needs in the twenty-
rst century” (ibid., 8).
See also notes (5.5).
2.212 ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile)
2.213 i.e. (that is). Avoid using i.e. in running text; use that is instead. Use
the abbreviation, followed by a comma, only in parenthetical refer-
ences or tables.
2.214 IED (improvised explosive device)
2.215 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
2.216 IFF (identication, friend or foe)
2.217 IG (inspector general)
2.218 IMA (individual mobilization augmentee)
2.219 IMINT (imagery intelligence)
2.220 INFOCON (information operations condition)
2.221 INFOSEC (information security)
2.222 INS (inertial navigation system)
2.223 INTELSAT (International Telecommunications Satellite
Organization)
2.224 IO (information operations)
2.225 I/O (input/output)
2.226 IOC (initial operational capability)
2.227 IOS (International Ocer School)
2.228 IP (Internet protocol)
2.229 IR (infrared)
44 2.0 ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviations
2.230 ISAF (International Security Assistance Force)
2.231 ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance)
2.232 IT (information technology)
2.233 IW (irregular warfare)
2.234 I&W (indications and warning)
2.235 J-1 (manpower and personnel directorate of a joint sta)
2.236 J-2 (intelligence directorate of a joint sta)
2.237 J-3 (operations directorate of a joint sta)
2.238 J-4 (logistics directorate of a joint sta)
2.239 J-5 (plans directorate of a joint sta)
2.240 J-6 (communications system directorate of a joint sta)
2.241 J-7 (operational plans and interoperability directorate of a joint sta)
2.242 J-8 (force structure, resource, and assessment directorate of a
joint sta)
2.243 J-9 (civil-military operations directorate of a joint sta)
2.244 JAG (judge advocate general)
2.245 JAOC (joint air operations center)
2.246 JAOP (joint air operations plan)
2.247 JASSM (joint air-to-surface stando missile)
2.248 JCS (Joint Chiefs of Sta). Shortened form: joint chiefs
2.249 JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition)
2.250 JFACC (joint force air component commander)
2.251 JFC (joint force commander)
2.252 JFLCC (joint force land component commander)
2.253 JFMCC (joint force maritime component commander)
2.254 JFSOCC (joint force special operations component commander)
2.255 JOC (joint operations center)
2.256 JOPES (Joint Operation Planning and Execution System)
2.257 JP (joint publication)
2.0 ABBREVIATIONS 45
Abbreviations
2.258 Jr. Use with a period. Commas are not required; if you do use com-
mas, place one before the abbreviation (and aer, if it doesnt occur
at the end of the sentence or before a semicolon, colon, dash, or an
open parenthesis). Select one style and use it consistently. No com-
ma precedes a Roman numeral that follows a name. However, use a
comma before Jr. and a Roman numeral when the name is inverted
(as in an index).
James Adair Jr. is the mayor.
James Adair, Jr., is the mayor.
Steve Bailey III announced his candidacy for a place on the board of
education.
Adair, James, Jr.
Bailey, Steve, III
2.259 JROC (Joint Requirements Oversight Council)
2.260 JSOW (joint stando weapon)
2.261 JSTARS (Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System)
2.262 JTF (joint task force)
2.263 kg (kilogram)
2.264 kHz (kilohertz)
2.265 KIA (killed in action)
2.266 km (kilometer)
2.267 kW (kilowatt)
2.268 LANDSAT (land satellite)
2.269 LANTIRN (low-altitude navigation and targeting infrared for night)
2.270 latitude, longitude. Spell out latitude and longitude in text or stand-
ing alone: longitude 80 degrees east; the polar latitudes, from 20° 50’
north latitude to 20° 50’ south latitude. In tables you may abbreviate
as follows:
lat 41°15΄40" N
long 90°18΄30" W
2.271 lb. (pound)
2.272 LEO (low Earth orbit)
2.273 LF (low frequency)
2.274 LGB (laser-guided bomb)
2.275 LGM (laser-guided missile)
46 2.0 ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviations
2.276 LGW (laser-guided weapon)
2.277 LIMFAC (limiting factor)
2.278 LNO (liaison ocer)
2.279 LO (low observable)
2.280 LOAC (law of armed conict)
2.281 LOC (line of communications)
2.282 loc. cit. (loco citato). In the place cited. Use a shortened reference
(5.5) instead.
2.283 LORAN (long-range aid to navigation)
2.284 LZ (landing zone)
2.285 MAAP (master air attack plan)
2.286 MAGTF (Marine air-ground task force)
2.287 MAJCOM (major command)
2.288 MANPADS (man-portable air defense system)
2.289 MAW (Marine aircra wing)
2.290 MEDEVAC (medical evacuation)
2.291 MEO (medium Earth orbit)
2.292 MHz (megahertz)
2.293 MIA (missing in action)
2.294 MiG(s). Capital M, lowercase i, capital G. Soviet aircra developed by
the design bureau of Gen Artem Mikoyan and Gen Mikhail Gurevich.
Abbreviation derived from the transliteration Mikoyan i Gurevich.
2.295 military abbreviations. See Joint Publication 1-02, Department of
Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms.
2.296 military titles and oces. Capitalize and abbreviate titles that pre-
cede full names; capitalize and spell out titles that precede surnames
only. Lowercase and spell out titles following a personal name or used
alone in place of a name:
Gen Ulysses S. Grant, commander in chief of the Union army; General
Grant; the commander in chief; the general
Lt Col Mike Tate; Lieutenant Colonel (or Colonel) Tate; the lieutenant
colonel (or the colonel)
2.0 ABBREVIATIONS 47
Abbreviations
Gen Curtis E. LeMay, commander of Strategic Air Command; Gen-
eral LeMay; the general
But General of the Army Douglas MacArthur; Douglas MacArthur,
general of the Army; General MacArthur; the general
Sgt Phyllis Forsman; a noncommissioned ocer (NCO); Sergeant
Forsman; the sergeant
Adm Chester W. Nimitz; Admiral Nimitz, commander of the Pacic
Fleet; the eet admiral
Col (Brig Gen–select) Peter D. Haynes; Brig Gen (sel) Peter D. Haynes
Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery (but Army generals Patton and
Bradley); Gen Dwight Eisenhower and Gen Bernard Montgomery
See also abbreviations (2.0); capitalization (titles in apposition, p. 85
of this guide; 4.1).
e following service-specic abbreviations for military rank are
provided primarily for reference purposes. In the body of your text, for
the sake of simplicity and uniformity, use the cap-and-lowercase style
for all ranks, regardless of the service (e.g., Capt rather than CAPT
[Navy]). If appropriate, however, you may use the all-caps style in
the front and back matter and documentation of books, monographs,
theses, and so forth; the same holds true of chapter bylines in a book
by multiple authors and in the bylines and documentation of journal
articles, as well as material other than the text of the articles (e.g., sta
and editorial-board listings, letters to the editor, contributors section,
etc.). e cap-and-lowercase variants, if any, are indicated parentheti-
cally below:
Air Force
Officer Enlisted
Gen general CMSAF chief master sergeant of the Air
Force
Lt Gen lieutenant general CCM command chief master sergeant
Maj Gen major general CMSgt chief master sergeant
Brig Gen brigadier general SMSgt senior master sergeant
Col colonel MSgt master sergeant
Lt Col lieutenant colonel TSgt technical sergeant
Maj major SSgt staff sergeant
Capt captain SrA senior Airman
1st Lt first lieutenant A1C Airman first class
2d/2nd Lt second lieutenant Amn Airman
AB Airman basic
48 2.0 ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviations
Army
Officer Enlisted
GEN (Gen) general SMA sergeant major of the Army
LTG (Lt Gen) lieutenant general CSM command sergeant major
MG (Maj Gen) major general SGM sergeant major
BG (Brig Gen) brigadier general 1SG (1st Sgt) first sergeant
COL (Col) colonel MSG (MSgt) master sergeant
LTC (Lt Col) lieutenant colonel SFC sergeant first class
MAJ (Maj) major SSG (SSgt) staff sergeant
CPT (Capt) captain SGT (Sgt) sergeant
1LT (1st Lt) first lieutenant CPL (Cpl) corporal
2LT (2d/2nd Lt) second lieutenant SPC specialist
PFC (Pfc) private first class
CW5 chief warrant officer 5 PVT/PV2 (Pvt) private
CW4 chief warrant officer 4
CW3 chief warrant officer 3
CW2 chief warrant officer 2
WO1 warrant officer 1
Marine Corps
Officer Enlisted
Gen general SgtMajMarCor sergeant major of
the Marine Corps
LtGen lieutenant general SgtMaj sergeant major
MajGen major general MgySgt master gunnery
sergeant
BGen (Brig Gen) brigadier general 1stSgt first sergeant
Col colonel MSgt master sergeant
LtCol lieutenant colonel GySgt gunnery sergeant
Maj major SSgt staff sergeant
Capt captain Sgt sergeant
1stLt first lieutenant Cpl corporal
2d/2ndLt second lieutenant LCpl lance corporal
PFC (Pfc) private first class
CWO5 chief warrant officer 5 Pvt private
CWO4 chief warrant officer 4
CWO3 chief warrant officer 3
CWO2 chief warrant officer 2
WO warrant officer
2.0 ABBREVIATIONS 49
Abbreviations
Navy / Coast Guard
Officer Enlisted
ADM (Adm) admiral MCPON master chief petty officer of the
Navy
VADM (Vice Adm) vice admiral MCPOCG master chief petty officer of the
Coast Guard
RADM (Rear Adm) rear admiral
(upper half)
FORCM force master chief petty officer
RDML rear admiral
(lower half)
FLTCM fleet master chief petty officer
CAPT (Capt) captain MCPOC command master chief petty
officer
CDR (Cdr) commander MCPO master chief petty officer
LCDR (Lt Cdr) lieutenant
commander
SCPO senior chief petty officer
LT (Lt) lieutenant CPO chief petty officer
LTJG (Lt JG) lieutenant
junior grade
PO1 petty officer first class
ENS (Ensign) ensign PO2 petty officer second class
PO3 petty officer third class
CWO5 chief warrant
officer 5
SN seaman
CWO4 chief warrant
officer 4
SA seaman apprentice
CWO3 chief warrant
officer 3
SR seaman recruit
CWO2 chief warrant
officer 2
WO1 warrant officer
2.297 MILSATCOM (military satellite communications)
2.298 MISREP (mission report)
2.299 MITRE Corp. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research
Corporation)
2.300 MMOAS (master of military operational art and science [degree,
Air Command and Sta College]). See also master’s degree (4.1.96).
2.301 MNF (multinational force)
2.302 MOA (memorandum of agreement)
2.303 MOB (main operating base)
50 2.0 ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviations
2.304 MOE (measure of eectiveness)
2.305 months of the year. In running text, write exact dates in day-month-
year sequence, without commas. Spell out the month, use gures for
the day, and use a four-digit year. When you use only month and year,
no commas are necessary.
FDR referred to 7 December 1941 as a day that would live in infamy.
e date March 2003 was special to her.
You may use 9/11 when referring to the terrorist attacks of 11 Sep-
tember 2001. If documentation, gures, and tables contain numerous
dates, you may abbreviate certain months (Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May,
June, July, Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec.) and use the day-month-year
sequence without a comma (7 Dec. 1941) to reduce clutter. Choose
one style for the documentation, gures, and tables, and use it consis-
tently. See also numbers (4.3).
2.306 MOS (military occupational specialty)
2.307 MOU (memorandum of understanding)
2.308 mph (miles per hour)
2.309 MPMS (master of philosophy in military strategy [degree, School of
Advanced Air and Space Studies]). See also master’s degree (4.1.96).
2.310 Mr., Mrs., Ms. Use a period with all. Spell out “Mister” when it con-
notes military rank (e.g., Army warrant ocers): Mister Roberts.
2.311 MRE (meal, ready to eat)
2.312 MSFRIC (Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center). See also
AUL (Air University Library) (2.70).
2.313 MSS (master of strategic studies [degree, Air War College]). See also
masters degree (4.1.96).
2.314 MTW (major theater war)
2.315 NAF (nonappropriated funds; numbered air force)
2.316 NAS (naval air station)
2.317 NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
2.318 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
2.319 NAVAID (navigation aid)
2.320 NAVSAT (navigation satellite)
2.321 NBC (nuclear, biological, and chemical)
2.0 ABBREVIATIONS 51
Abbreviations
2.322 NCA (National Command Authorities). No longer used. Use presi-
dent and/or secretary of defense, as appropriate.
2.323 NCO (noncombat operations; noncommissioned ocer)
2.324 NCOIC (noncommissioned ocer in charge)
2.325 NDU (National Defense University)
2.326 NEA (Northeast Asia)
2.327 NEO (noncombatant evacuation operation)
2.328 NETOPS (network operations)
2.329 NGA (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency). Formerly the Na-
tional Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)
2.330 NGB (National Guard Bureau)
2.331 NGO (nongovernmental organization)
2.332 NIPRNET (Nonsecure Internet Protocol Router Network)
2.333 nm (nautical mile)
2.334 no. Use a period aer the abbreviation for number.
2.335 NOFORN (not releasable to foreign nationals)
2.336 NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command)
2.337 NOTAM (notice to Airmen)
2.338 NRO (National Reconnaissance Oce)
2.339 NSA (National Security Agency)
2.340 NSC (National Security Council)
2.341 NVG (night vision goggle[s])
2.342 NW (network warfare)
2.343 OCA (oensive counterair)
2.344 OCONUS (outside the continental United States)
2.345 OJT (on-the-job training)
2.346 OL (operating location)
2.347 O&M (operation and maintenance)
2.348 OMB (Oce of Management and Budget)
2.349 OODA (observe, orient, decide, act)
2.350 op. cit. (opere citato). In the work cited. Use a shortened reference
instead. See also notes (5.5).
52 2.0 ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviations
2.351 OPCON (operational control)
2.352 OPLAN (operation plan)
2.353 OPM (Oce of Personnel Management)
2.354 OPORD (operation order)
2.355 OPR (oce of primary responsibility)
2.356 OPSEC (operations security)
2.357 OPTEMPO (operating tempo)
2.358 ORM (operational risk management)
2.359 ORS (operationally responsive space)
2.360 OSD (Oce of the Secretary of Defense)
2.361 OT&E (operational test and evaluation)
2.362 OTS (Ocer Training School)
2.363 PA (public aairs)
2.364 PACAF (Pacic Air Forces)
2.365 page numbers. You may use the abbreviations p. (page) and pp. (pages)
to designate page numbers, or you may use the number(s) alone, with-
out those abbreviations. Choose one system, and use it consistently:
2. Lt Col Kenneth Keskel, “e Oath of Oce: A Historical Guide
to Moral Leadership,Air and Space Power Journal 16, no. 4 (Winter
2002): 48 [or p. 48], http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles
/apj/apj02/win02/win02.pdf.
2.366 PAWS (phased array warning system)
2.367 PCS (permanent change of station)
2.368 PGM (precision-guided munition)
2.369 PIREP (pilot report)
2.370 PKO (peacekeeping operation)
2.371 p.m. (post meridiem [aer noon]). Either write the abbreviation in
lowercase with periods, or set it in small caps with or without periods
(choose one style and use it consistently).
2.372 PME (professional military education)
2.373 PNT (positioning, navigation, and timing)
2.374 POC (point of contact)
2.0 ABBREVIATIONS 53
Abbreviations
2.375 POL (petroleum, oils, and lubricants)
2.376 POM (program objective memorandum)
2.377 POW (prisoner of war)
2.378 PPBE (Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution)
2.379 PR (personnel recovery)
2.380 Prime BEEF (Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force)
2.381 PSYOP (psychological operation)
2.382 PSYWAR (psychological warfare)
2.383 pub (publication)
2.384 RAF (Royal Air Force [United Kingdom])
2.385 rank. See military titles and oces (2.296).
2.386 rates of speed, frequencies, and so forth. See abbreviations (2.0);
numbers (4.3); measurements (4.3.15).
2.387 RCS (radar cross section)
2.388 R&D (research and development)
2.389 RDA (research, development, and acquisition)
2.390 RDT&E (research, development, test, and evaluation)
2.391 RECCE (reconnaissance)
2.392 RECON (reconnaissance)
2.393 RED HORSE (Rapid Engineers Deployable Heavy Operations Re-
pair Squadron, Engineers)
2.394 RMA (revolution in military aairs)
2.395 ROE (rule of engagement)
2.396 ROK (Republic of Korea)
2.397 ROTC (Reserve Ocer Training Corps)
2.398 RPA (remotely piloted aircra)
2.399 RPG (rocket propelled grenade)
2.400 RPV (remotely piloted vehicle)
2.401 RRF (rapid reaction [or response] force)
2.402 SA (situational awareness)
54 2.0 ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviations
2.403 SAASS (School of Advanced Air and Space Studies)
2.404 SACEUR (Supreme Allied Commander, Europe)
2.405 SACLANT (Supreme Allied Command, Atlantic)
2.406 SAF (secretary of the Air Force)
2.407 Saint. When Saint is part of someones name, follow that persons us-
age in terms of spelling out or abbreviating the word (e.g., as indi-
cated in Webster’s New Biographical Dictionary).
Marco de Saint-Hilaire Barry St. Leger
Abbreviate place-names containing Saint only when space is an issue:
Saint (St.) Louis
2.408 SAM (surface-to-air missile)
2.409 SAOC (sector air operations center)
2.410 SAR (search and rescue; synthetic aperture radar)
2.411 SATCOM (satellite communications)
2.412 SBIRS (space-based infrared system)
2.413 SCA (space coordinating authority)
2.414 SCUD (surface-to-surface missile system)
2.415 SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative)
2.416 SEA (Southeast Asia)
2.417 SEAD (suppression of enemy air defenses)
2.418 SEAL (sea-air-land team)
2.419 SF (security force; security forces [Air Force or Navy]; special forc-
es; standard form)
2.420 SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe)
2.421 SIGINT (signals intelligence)
2.422 SIOP (Single Integrated Operational Plan)
2.423 SIPRNET (Secret Internet Protocol Router Network)
2.424 SITREP (situation report)
2.425 SJA (sta judge advocate)
2.426 SLAM (stando land attack missile)
2.0 ABBREVIATIONS 55
Abbreviations
2.427 SLAR (side-looking airborne radar)
2.428 SLBM (submarine-launched ballistic missile)
2.429 SLCM (sea-launched cruise missile)
2.430 SLOC (sea line of communications)
2.431 SO (special order). Lowercase and spell out special order in general
references when the number is not given: the special order. Capital-
ize the term when a number accompanies it, but abbreviate the term
with the number only aer you spell it out on rst occurrence: Special
Order (SO) T-013, SO T-013, the special order.
2.432 SOC (security operations center; special operations commander;
Squadron Ocer College)
2.433 SOF (special operations forces)
2.434 SOP (standing [or standard] operating procedure)
2.435 SORTS (Status of Resources and Training System)
2.436 SOS (Squadron Ocer School; special operations squadron)
2.437 SOUTHAF (Southern Command Air Forces)
2.438 SOW (special operations wing; stando weapon)
2.439 SP (security police)
2.440 SPINS (special instructions)
2.441 Sr. Abbreviation for “senior.” Use with a period. Commas are not required;
if you do use commas, place one before the abbreviation (and aer, if it
doesnt occur at the end of the sentence or before a semicolon, colon,
dash, or an open parenthesis). Select one style and use it consistently.
Use a comma before the abbreviation when the name is inverted (as
in an index).
M. H. Abrahms Sr. lives at the end of the street.
M. H. Abrahms, Sr., lives at the end of the street.
Abrahms, M. H., Sr.
2.442 SROE (standing rule of engagement)
2.443 SSA (space situational awareness)
2.444 SSBN (eet ballistic missile submarine)
2.445 SSM (surface-to-surface missile)
2.446 SSN (attack submarine, nuclear; space surveillance network)
56 2.0 ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviations
2.447 state names. See abbreviations (2.0).
2.448 STOL (short takeo and landing)
2.449 STOVL (short takeo and vertical landing)
2.450 SWA (Southwest Asia)
2.451 TACAIR (tactical air)
2.452 TACON (tactical control)
2.453 TACP (tactical air control party)
2.454 TACS (tactical [or theater] air control system)
2.455 TACSAT (tactical satellite)
2.456 TAF (tactical air force)
2.457 TAW (tactical airli wing)
2.458 TBM (tactical [or theater] ballistic missile)
2.459 TBMD (theater ballistic missile defense)
2.460 TDY (temporary duty)
2.461 T&E (test and evaluation)
2.462 TERCOM (terrain contour matching)
2.463 TIC (troops in contact)
2.464 titles of persons and oces. See capitalization (4.1); military titles
and oces (2.296).
2.465 TLAM (Tomahawk land attack missile)
2.466 TLAM/N (Tomahawk land attack missile/nuclear)
2.467 TMD (theater missile defense)
2.468 TO (technical order). Lowercase and spell out technical order in gen-
eral references when the number is not given: the technical order.
Always capitalize the term when a number accompanies it, but abbre-
viate the term only aer spelling it out on rst occurrence: Technical
Order (TO) 00-25-4, TO 00-25-4.
2.469 TOF (time of ight)
2.470 TOT (time on target)
2.471 TOW (tube launched, optically tracked, wire guided)
2.472 TPFDD (time-phased force and deployment data)
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Abbreviations
2.473 TPFDL (time-phased force and deployment list)
2.474 TRADOC (US Army Training and Doctrine Command)
2.475 TRS (tactical reconnaissance squadron)
2.476 TTP (tactics, techniques, and procedures)
2.477 UAS (unmanned aircra system), UASs (pl.). Use this abbreviation
when you refer to the entire system (i.e., the remotely piloted aircra
[RPA] and the ground control station [GCS]).
2.478 UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle). Use RPA (remotely piloted aircra)
or RPV (remotely piloted vehicle) instead.
2.479 UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice)
2.480 UCP (Unied Command Plan)
2.481 UHF (ultrahigh frequency)
2.482 UK (United Kingdom)
2.483 UMD (unit manning document)
2.484 UN (United Nations). e abbreviation can be used as either a noun
or an adjective.
2.485 UNPROFOR (United Nations protection force)
2.486 URL (uniform [or universal] resource locator). A URL is a string
that identies a resource in the World Wide Web. When you cite In-
ternet sources, place the URL (preferably the DOI, if available) at the
end of a note or bibliography entry. In a printed work, if you must
break a URL, do so before a single slash if possible. Do not break
aer a dot since this looks like a period at the end of a line and might
confuse the reader; rather, place the dot at the beginning of the next
line. Do not hyphenate a word at the end of a line since some URLs
contain hyphens as part of the address, and do not leave a hyphen
thats part of a URL at the end of a line. Additionally, break before a
tilde (~), a comma, an underline (_), a question mark, a number sign
(#), or a percent symbol; aer a colon or double slash; and before or
aer an equals sign or an ampersand (&). See also DOI (2.142).
2.487 US (United States). Use the abbreviation as an adjective only.
2.488 USA (United States Army)
2.489 USAF (United States Air Force). You may use the abbreviation as ei-
ther a noun or an adjective (serving in the USAF; USAF people). See
also United States Air Force, US Air Force, Air Force, USAF (1.67).
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2.490 USAFCENT (United States Air Forces Central)
2.491 USAFE (United States Air Forces in Europe)
2.492 USAFR (United States Air Force Reserve)
2.493 USAFRICOM (United States Africa Command)
2.494 USC (United States Code)
2.495 USCENTAF (United States Central Command Air Forces)
2.496 USCENTCOM (United States Central Command)
2.497 USCG (United States Coast Guard)
2.498 USCYBERCOM (United States Cyber Command)
2.499 USEUCOM (United States European Command)
2.500 USJFCOM (United States Joint Forces Command)
2.501 USMC (United States Marine Corps)
2.502 USN (United States Navy)
2.503 USNORTHCOM (United States Northern Command)
2.504 USSBS (United States Strategic Bombing Survey). Italicize in refer-
ences to the published work. Initial caps in roman type are appro-
priate in references to the project prior to publication: United States
Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS).
2.505 USSOCOM (United States Special Operations Command)
2.506 USSOUTHAF (United States Air Force, Southern Command)
2.507 USSOUTHCOM (United States Southern Command)
2.508 USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Use Union of Soviet So-
cialist Republics and its abbreviation in references to the country as
it existed between 1917 and 1991. e abbreviation can be used as
either a noun or an adjective. See also CIS (Commonwealth of Inde-
pendent States) (2.105); Soviet(s), Soviet Union, USSR (1.59).
2.509 USSTRATCOM (United States Strategic Command)
2.510 USTRANSCOM (United States Transportation Command)
2.511 USW (undersea warfare)
2.512 UTC (unit type code)
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Abbreviations
2.513 v. (versus). Use v. (in italics) instead of vs. in names of legal cases
(also italicized) mentioned in text; in other contexts, use versus. See
also italics (4.4).
2.514 VFR (visual ight rules)
2.515 VHF (very high frequency)
2.516 viz. (videlicet; that is to say, namely)
2.517 VLF (very low frequency)
2.518 V/STOL (vertical and/or short takeo and landing)
2.519 VTOL (vertical takeo and landing)
2.520 WARNORD (warning order)
2.521 Washington, DC (or D.C.). It is not necessary to spell out the abbre-
viation in running text.
2.522 WIA (wounded in action)
2.523 WMD (weapon of mass destruction)
2.524 WRSK (war readiness [or reserve] spares kit)
2.525 WWW (World Wide Web). See also web terms (4.1.154).
2.526 XO (executive ocer)
2.527 zip code or ZIP (zone improvement plan) code; zip (n.); zip-code
(v.). In a mailing address, do not use a comma before the ZIP code (or
aer, if including “USA”): Troy, AL 36081 USA.
2.528 ZULU (time zone indicator for Universal Time or Greenwich Mean
Time)
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3.0 Grammar and Punctuation
3.1 Grammar
3.1.1 active voice. When the grammatical subject performs the action rep-
resented by the verb, the verb is in active voice.
e congregation sang “Abide with Me.
Mr. Conrad gave his son a car.
e police caught the thieves.
Most of your writing should be in active voice since it is direct, force-
ful, and emphatic. See also passive voice (3.1.20).
3.1.2 antecedents. A pronoun should agree with its antecedent (the word to
which it refers) in number (i.e., singular with singular, plural with plural):
Incorrect: A student should treat their teacher with respect.
Correct: A student should treat his or her teacher with respect.
Correct: Students should treat their teachers with respect.
Aer a compound antecedent joined by or, nor, either . . . or, nei-
ther . . . nor, or not only . . . but also, the pronoun agrees with the
nearer antecedent:
Neither the aides nor the undersecretary was in his seat.
Neither the secretary nor his aides consistently stated their policy.
3.1.3 appositives. An appositive follows and further identies another
noun, as do “classmate” in the rst sentence and “Guy Bailey” in the
second:
Guy Bailey, a classmate, is a good friend.
My classmate Guy Bailey is a good friend.
In the rst sentence, since “classmate” is not necessary in identifying
Guy Bailey,” it is a nonrestrictive appositive, set o by commas. In
the second sentence, however, “Guy Bailey” is necessary in identify-
ing “classmate,” so it is a restrictive appositive and is not set o by
commas. Note that in the following sentence, “Bob Riley” is a restric-
tive appositive since it is necessary in identifying “governor”; in such
cases, words like “governor” are not titles (here it is in apposition to
“Bob Riley”) and therefore should not be capitalized or abbreviated:
Former Alabama governor Bob Riley is now a lobbyist.
not
Former Alabama Gov. Bob Riley is now a lobbyist.
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3.1.4 awkward structure of modication. To improve clarity, avoid string-
ing together a number of modiers; instead, rewrite to show the rela-
tionship among terms:
Awkward: Some military bases are responsible for thorough long-
term range complex management planning.
Clearer: Some military bases are responsible for thoroughly planning
the long-term management of range complexes.
3.1.5 comma splice. A comma splice occurs when two independent claus-
es are joined by a comma without a coordinating conjunction or by a
comma instead of a semicolon:
Incorrect: ings are seldom as simple as they appear, people should
not make hasty judgments.
Correct: ings are seldom as simple as they appear, so people should
not make hasty judgments.
Correct: ings are seldom as simple as they appear; people should
not make hasty judgments.
Correct: Because things are seldom as simple as they appear, people
should not make hasty judgments.
Incorrect: e can had a dent in it, therefore the store sold it at a
reduced price.
Correct: e can had a dent in it; therefore, the store sold it at a re-
duced price.
Correct: e can had a dent in it, so the store sold it at a reduced price.
Correct: Because the can had a dent in it, the store sold it at a reduced
price.
3.1.6 comparisons. Comparisons should be logical and complete:
Illogical: e cry of an owl is more frightening than a hawk.
Logical: e cry of an owl is more frightening than the cry of [or than
that of] a hawk.
Illogical: e Burj Khalifa in Dubai is taller than any building in the world.
Logical: e Burj Khalifa in Dubai is taller than any other building
in the world.
Incomplete: e “Mr. Lincoln” is as pretty if not prettier than any
other rose.
Complete: e “Mr. Lincoln” is as pretty as if not prettier than any
other rose.
Incomplete: Tristram Shandy is dierent.
Complete: Tristram Shandy is dierent from other novels of its time.
3.1.7 court-martial (n., v.), courts-martial (n., plural)
3.1.8 dangling modier. A verbal phrase at the beginning of a sentence
dangles when the word it should modify is not present or does not
immediately follow the verbal phrase:
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Running along the street, my nose felt frozen.
Here, running along the street seems to modify nose. Correct this
problem by adding a word that the verbal phrase can logically modify:
Running along the street, I felt as if my nose were frozen.
Other examples of dangling modiers:
Dangling: Droning on in a nasal monotone, the class fell asleep dur-
ing the professors lecture.
Correct: Droning on in a nasal monotone, the professor put the class
to sleep during the lecture.
Dangling: To carry out the mission, orders had to be followed exactly.
Correct: To carry out the mission, the troops had to follow orders exactly.
Dangling: For defending a unit of Soldiers pinned down by enemy
re, the Air Force Cross was posthumously awarded to A1C William
Pitsenbarger in 1966.
Correct: For defending a unit of Soldiers pinned down by enemy re,
A1C William Pitsenbarger was posthumously awarded the Air Force
Cross in 1966.
3.1.9 data. Singular or plural. Choose one and use it consistently. Be sure
that verbs and qualiers agree with the number that you choose:
e data is now in, but we have not examined it.
e data are now in, but we have not examined them.
3.1.10 rst, rstly. Use rstly, secondly, and so forth as sentence modiers;
or rst, second, and so forth. Do not mix the two: rst, secondly.
3.1.11 important, importantly. You may use either word as a sentence
modier. Choose one and use it consistently.
More important, the truth will prevail.
Just as importantly, the truth will prevail.
3.1.12 it. Use it to refer to inanimate objects and some living things; you
may also use this pronoun in impersonal statements and idioms:
e couple bought a house but did not like it.
e newborn baby kept its eyes shut tightly.
It has been three hours since it began to rain.
We will have to play it by ear.
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Using it rather than an appropriate personal pronoun or noun can
make writing stilted: rather than it is believed, use I believe, the Air
Force believes, and so forth.
3.1.13 its and it’s. Its is a possessive pronoun; it’s is a contraction for it is:
Incorrect: is is country living at its best.
Correct: is is country living at its best.
3.1.14 I, we. You may use I or we occasionally in the text rather than the
formal “the author(s).
3.1.15 logistics (n.). Singular or plural. Choose one and use it consistently.
Logistics belongs to the group of noncombat activities.
Logistics belong to the group of noncombat activities.
3.1.16 media. Use media (the plural of medium) with a plural verb (me-
diums is also the plural of medium). Although media is used in the
singular in references to agencies of mass communications (plural
medias), that usage is not well established.
3.1.17 misplaced modiers. To avoid awkwardness or misunderstanding,
place modiers properly:
Misplaced: Whitman quotes Emerson in the preface to Leaves of
Grass, who wrote a letter praising the volume of poetry.
Properly Placed: In the preface to Leaves of Grass, Whitman quotes
Emerson, who wrote a letter praising the volume of
poetry.
Misplaced: Some pesticides are still used on crops that are suspected
of being dangerous.
Properly Placed: Some pesticides that are suspected of being danger-
ous are still used on crops.
Misplaced: e bull that was pawing violently attacked the matador.
Properly Placed: e violently pawing bull attacked the matador.
Properly Placed: e pawing bull attacked the matador violently.
Misplaced: I only have two dollars le.
Properly Placed: I have only two dollars le.
3.1.18 none. None can be either singular or plural. Choose one and use it
consistently.
None of those accused was really responsible.
None of those accused were really responsible.
3.1.19 parallelism. Use parallel grammatical forms to express parallel elements:
Not Parallel: e loudmouth was characterized by all talking and no action.
Parallel: e loudmouth was characterized by all talk and no action.
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Not Parallel: e jihadist not only supported terrorism but also he be-
came a suicide bomber.
Parallel: e jihadist not only supported terrorism but also became a
suicide bomber.
Not Parallel: e biscuit is hot, aky, and tastes good.
Parallel: e biscuit is hot, aky, and tasty.
Not Parallel: Good interviewers must have genuine interest in people,
strong curiosity, and discipline themselves to stay on the
topic.
Parallel: Good interviewers must have genuine interest in people,
strong curiosity, and enough discipline to stay on the topic.
3.1.20 passive voice. Passive voice is a verbal construction consisting of a
past participle and some form of the verb be.
When the subject of a verb receives the action, the verb is in the
passive voice:
Abide with Me” was sung by the congregation.
Jimmy was given a car by his father.
e pit was dug fully eight feet deep.
ey had been caught.
Characteristics of passive voice:
1. e receiver of the verbs action comes before the verb.
2. e verb has two parts: some form of the verb be plus the past
participle of a main verb (most of them end in -en or -ed).
3. If the doer appears at all, it follows the verb and is usually the
object of the preposition by.
Use passive voice sparingly; otherwise, your writing can become
wordy and lack forcefulness. But passive voice has several important
uses. In the writers mind, the object may have more importance than
the doer:
e bill was passed without opposition.
e well was drilled in solid rock.
Our house was painted last year.
Use passive voice if you do not want to name the person or thing
performing the action. For example:
President Reagan was elected in 1980.
e parts were shipped on 1 June.
Passive voice allows various degrees of emphasis by placing the
name of the act or the doer at the end:
Our house is being painted. (Active: ey are painting our house.)
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Our house was painted by Joe Mead and his brother. (Active: Joe
Mead and his brother painted our house.)
Abide with Me” was sung by the choir. (Active: e choir sang “Abide
with Me.”)
Since passive voice does not always show the doer, you may forget
to include important information. e result may be confusing.
Requests must be approved beforehand. (By whom?)
e commander must approve requests beforehand.
e gures were lost. (By whom?)
We lost the gures.
Other examples of awkward passive voice:
Awkward Passive: All topics are shamelessly ponticated upon by Jim.
Active: Jim shamelessly ponticates upon all topics.
Awkward Passive: When the hostages were rst taken and initial re-
sponse planning was initiated, it is noteworthy that using USAF spe-
cial operations helicopters was considered.
Active: Notably, during the initial response planning that followed
the taking of the hostages, the Air Force considered using its special
operations helicopters.
3.1.21 plurals of aircra designations. Form plurals by adding an s (no
apostrophe) to the aircra designation: F-15s, F-22s, F-4Cs, B-52Hs.
3.1.22 possessive with a gerund. Use the possessive case for nouns and pro-
nouns (usually proper names and personal nouns and pronouns) that
precede a gerund functioning as the subject of a clause:
Johns taking the case to court came as a surprise.
We all thought that his skipping school on Friday was pretty cool.
Mother’s admitting her involvement in the prank amused us.
but
Boys playing Little League baseball should always wear batting hel-
mets.
Note that in the last example, boys is the subject of the sentence, not
playing, which is not a gerund but a participle (modifying “boys”).
3.1.23 reexive/intensive pronouns. Pronouns such as myself, yourself,
himself, herself, itself, and so forth, are used reexively or intensively,
not as subjects or objects:
Reexive: I hurt myself.
Intensive: e general himself led his troops into battle.
Incorrect: Philip and myself were the only people in the theater.
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Correct: Philip and I were the only people in the theater.
Incorrect: Richard told his secret to Philip and myself.
Correct: Richard told his secret to Philip and me.
3.1.24 subject-verb agreement. A verb with a compound subject joined by
or, nor, either . . . or, neither . . . nor, or not only . . . but also agrees with
the nearer subject:
Neither I nor your mother is pleased with this grade.
Either ceiling fans or an air conditioner is essential.
Either an air conditioner or ceiling fans are essential.
e object of a prepositional phrase that intervenes between the
subject and verb is not part of the subject and therefore has no eect
on its number:
Incorrect: e eect of the lessons and principles discussed here have
been profound.
Correct: e eect of the lessons and principles discussed here has
been profound.
e collective noun number is singular when it represents an en-
tity and plural when it represents the members of that entity. Gener-
ally, “a number of ” takes the plural, and “the number of” takes the
singular:
A number of students in our English class take the advanced place-
ment test each year.
e number of students in our English class who take the advanced
placement test each year is increasing.
A verb agrees with its subject, not with the subjective complement
/ predicate nominative:
His main source of pleasure is his family and friends.
3.1.25 subjunctive mood. e subjunctive mood of verbs occurs in idiom-
atic expressions of wishes (I wish he were going with you); conditions
contrary to fact (If I were you, I would go); recommendations, de-
mands, resolutions, and so forth, in “that” clauses (I ask that the min-
utes be approved) (I insist that he listen closely to the sermon); and
certain “formulaic” constructions (God help us) (Be that as it may)
(Heaven forbid). e most common subjunctive forms are were and
be. e others take the present tense plural form (i.e., no –s ending).
3.1.26 that, which. Clauses introduced by the relative pronouns that and
which are of two kinds: restrictive and nonrestrictive.
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A clause is restrictive or dening when the information it provides
about something in the main clause is essential to the meaning of the
statement. It is generally preceded by the relative pronoun that; which
can also introduce a restrictive clause:
I am looking for the book that (which) I lost yesterday.
A nonrestrictive clause is descriptive, can be set o from the rest
of the sentence by commas, must be self-contained, and is introduced
only by which:
My house, which is old and large, is located on Elm Street.
In some circumstances that can be omitted from restrictive clauses:
When it is the object of a verb: the songs (that) we used to sing.
When it is the object of a preposition: the house (that) we made the
delivery to.
When it is the complement of some form of the verb be: Rascal is not
the horse (that) his father was.
When it is technically the subject of the verb be but standing in the
complement position: We gave him all (that) there was.
Some writers take this option to the extreme by omitting that al-
together. Oentimes, however, that must be retained for clarity. For
example, when a time element follows the verb, the conjunction that
is always needed to make clear whether the time element applies to
the material preceding or following:
Governor Bentley announced today that he would sign the income
tax bill.
Here, if that is omitted, the sentence could mean either that the
governor made the announcement today or that he would sign the
bill today.
When a sentence with two parallel clauses requires the expression
and that in the second part, you must retain that in the rst part of
the sentence for parallel construction:
e senator said that she would run next year and that James Corley
would be her campaign manager.
Aer verbs like said or announced, you may omit that for con-
ciseness: He said (that) he was tired. But if the subject of the clause
following the verb can be mistaken for that verbs direct object, that
must be retained:
Easily misread: He said a good many things about the project bothered
him.
No misreading: He said that a good many things about the project
bothered him.
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See also which (3.1.32).
3.1.27 that, which, who, what. Use that to refer to persons, animals, or
things; which to refer to animals or things; who, whom, and whose to
refer to persons (but an argument whose point was convincing); and
what to refer to nonliving things.
3.1.28 there is, there are. When there is the anticipatory subject, the verb
should agree in number with the “real” subject, which follows it:
ere is a lesson to be learned here, and there are many more lessons
to be learned.” However, like repeated use of it is, repeated use of there
is and there are deprives the sentence of strong subject-verb combina-
tions. See also it (3.1.12).
3.1.29 this. Although criticized by some writers, using this to refer to the
idea conveyed in a preceding sentence is acceptable if the reference is
neither confusing nor ambiguous:
John lost his job. is made his creditors uneasy.
However, do not use this when it refers only to some part of an idea
or to an antecedent not actually expressed:
Because of inherited venereal disease, their population remains static.
is worries the elders of the tribe. (Venereal disease? Static popula-
tion? Both?)
e poet is widely admired, but it is dicult to make a living at this.
(Writing poetry, but not expressed in sentence.)
Do not use demonstrative this in place of personal pronouns:
We were much impressed by the tour director. is person (not this)
is capable and well informed.
3.1.30 Vietnamese (n., sing. and pl.; adj.)
3.1.31 whether. When this term introduces either a complete or elliptical
adverbial clause, use or not aer whether:
Whether or not the car was in good condition, he was determined
to buy it.
In noun clauses, you may use the words or not with whether for
emphasis, but they are not necessary:
Whether Tom goes to Birmingham today depends on the weather.
When the alternatives are fully expressed, the use of or not with
whether is redundant:
Whether he lived inside or outside the city limits was irrelevant.
You should repeat whether aer or when the alternatives are long
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and complex (Whether . . . or whether . . .).
3.1.32 which. Which can introduce both nonrestrictive and restrictive clauses:
I read e Once and Future King, which is a retelling of Arthurian
legend.
ey proposed an operational testing and evaluation method that was
based on an approach which [used to avoid repeating “that”] evolved
from their experiences during the testing of the weapon system.
Which sometimes unambiguously refers to an entire preceding
statement rather than to a single word:
She ignored him, which proved unwise.
Sometimes, however, the antecedent of which may be in doubt:
Some people worry about overeating, which can be unhealthy. (Wor-
rying? Overeating?)
Sometimes it is better to rewrite the sentence:
Worrying about overeating can be unhealthy.
See also that, which (3.1.26).
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3.2 Punctuation
3.2.1 apostrophe. Form the possessive of singular nouns by adding an
apostrophe and an s, and the possessive of plural nouns (except for ir-
regular plurals) by adding an apostrophe only: the students book, the
oxens tails, the libraries’ directors. However, if the addition of ’s to a
singular noun causes diculty in pronunciation, add the apostrophe
only: for righteousness’ sake. For words like “politics” and “econom-
ics,” whose singular and plural forms end in “s,” form the possessive
by adding an apostrophe only. e same holds true of the names of
places or organizations ending in “s” although the entity is singular
(e.g., United States’ position; Calloway Gardens’ location).
Show joint possession by using the possessive form for the second
noun only: Bill and Judy’s home. Show individual possession by us-
ing the possessive form for both nouns: our dog’s and cats toys. Form
expressions of duration in the same way you do possessives: an hour’s
delay, three weeks’ worth, six months’ leave of absence.
You can apply the general rule to most proper nouns, including most
names ending in sibilants: Burnss poems, Marx’s theories, Jeerson
Daviss home, Aristophaness play, the Rosses’ and the Williamses’ lands.
Form the possessive of words ending in a silent “s” by adding an
apostrophe and an “s” (the Marine Corpss motto; Camuss writings).
Use an apostrophe and an “s” for the possessive of words ending in
an “eez” sound: Xerxess.
To show possession for compound nouns, add an apostrophe and
an s to the nal word: secretary-treasurers, mother-in-law’s, mothers-
in-law’s.
To show possession for indenite pronouns, add an apostrophe
and an s to the last component of the pronoun: someones car, some-
body elses books.
Do not use apostrophes to show plurals of decades identied by
century: 1960s, 1980s.
Do not use apostrophes to show plurals of letters and gures un-
less such punctuation is necessary to avoid confusion: Bs and Cs; 1s,
2s, and 3s; B-52s and F-15s; but As, as, is, and us.
3.2.2 brackets. Use brackets to enclose editorial interpolations within
quoted material (to clarify references and make corrections) or in
place of parentheses within parentheses.
“In April [actually July] 1943, Jones published his rst novel.
Gen Charles Horner controlled coalition air assets during the Gulf
War (specically, he was the joint force air component commander
[JFACC]).
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See also sic (1.57).
3.2.3 bullets. See display dots (4.5).
3.2.4 colon. In a sentence, the presence of a colon indicates a break of the
same degree as one indicated by a semicolon. It also signals some sort
of relationship between the separated elements. e second element
may illustrate or amplify the rst:
Music is more than a collection of notes: it conveys deep feelings and
emotions.
Use a colon to introduce a list or a series. If you use namely, for ex-
ample, or that is to introduce the list or series, do not use a colon un-
less the list or series consists of one or more complete clauses:
e book covered three of the most important writers of the Roman-
tic Period: Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
e book covered three of the most important writers of the Roman-
tic Period, namely, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
Use a colon aer as follows or the following to enumerate several items:
Test scores were as follows: two 95s, two 80s, and one 65.
e class made the following test scores: two 95s, two 80s, and one 65.
When a colon is used within a sentence, lowercase the rst word
that follows it unless (1) that word is a proper name, (2) the colon in-
troduces two or more sentences, or (3) the colon introduces speech
in a dialogue or extract:
Beneath the surface, however, is the less tangible question of values:
are the old truths true?
Ed had two must-see attractions on his itinerary: Northwest Florida
Alligator Emporium and Crazy Bill’s Pink Flamingo Ranch.
He had two reasons for not attending the awards ceremony: First, he
was shy. Second, he had nothing appropriate to wear.
e umpire heard the fan loud and clear: “You need glasses, you bum!”
Note also that one space, not two, separates the colon from the fol-
lowing text.
Do not use a colon before a series introduced by a verb or prepo-
sition:
Incorrect:
My three immediate goals are: to survive midyear exams, to get to
Colorado, and to ski until my legs wear out.
Correct:
My three immediate goals are to survive midyear exams. . . .
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Incorrect:
His friend accused him of: wiggling in his seat, talking during the
lecture, and not remembering what was said.
Correct:
His friend accused him of wiggling in his seat. . . .
Place a colon outside quotation marks:
Will had one objection to the poem “Altarwise by Owl Light at the
Halfway House”: it was incomprehensible.
See also subtitle (1.61).
3.2.5 comma. Use a comma as follows:
•  to  set  o  nonrestrictive  clauses—those  you  could  omit  without 
changing the meaning of the main clause:
Ebenezer Scrooge, who lived alone, refused to celebrate Christmas.
•  aer relatively long introductory phrases:
Aer reading the letter from the manufacturer, Mary decided to sue
the company.
•  before and or or in a series of three or more elements:
omas Hobbes said that life in the Middle Ages was solitary, poor,
nasty, brutish, and short.
•  to set o addresses and place-names:
e harmless drudge lives at 108 Deereld Drive, Troy, Alabama,
with a full complement of dogs and cats.
ey moved from Paris, Texas, to Rome, Georgia, in 1987.
(Note commas before and aer the name of the state.)
•  with a coordinating conjunction to separate the independent clauses
of a compound sentence:
Dr. Lopez criticized the report, and he asked the committee to revise it.
•  to separate adjectives that modify the same noun (as a rule of
thumb, if and can be substituted for the comma, then the comma is
appropriate):
Most people consider her a generous, outgoing person.
•  to separate groups of three digits in numbers of 1,000 or more (ex-
cept page numbers):
2,100
465,230
5,722,465
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•  to set o material enclosed in quotation marks, parentheses, or
brackets (place the comma inside the quotation mark [whether
single or double] but outside the closing parenthesis or bracket):
Tom commented, “e remark ‘I mean what I say,’ used by a character
in Alice in Wonderland, provoked a heated discussion.
Although the speaker appeared nervous (he stammered quite a bit),
he managed to nish his speech.
When the great ship sailed in 1911 [actually 1912], nobody suspected
what lay ahead.
•  aer a title of a work ending in a question mark or an exclamation 
point if a comma would normally appear where the question mark
or exclamation point occurs:
I can’t nd my DVD of Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which I
watched last night.
“What Do Colleges Want to Know?,” a brochure that Jan got from the
counselors oce, was quite helpful.
1. William M. Arkin, “Baghdad: e Urban Sanctuary in Desert
Storm?,Airpower Journal, Spring 1997, 4–20.
Note that this rule applies only to titles, not quotations:
“I think I’m going crazy!” she screamed.
Do not use a comma in the following situations:
•  to  set  o  restrictive  clauses—those  you  could  not  omit  without 
changing the meaning of the main clause:
e notion that all men are created equal was a radical one.
•  aer a short introductory phrase:
By 1865 the Confederacy was clearly doomed.
•  to set o the year in military-date style:
ey signed the order on 26 July 1947 in Washington.
•  to separate compound predicates in a simple sentence:
Patsy graduated in May and went to work in June.
•  to separate adjectives when the rst modies the combined idea of
the second plus the noun:
e estate is surrounded by an old stone wall.
e professor was a little old man.
Note that the converse of the rule of thumb for determining whether
to use a comma to separate adjectives (see above) applies here: since
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and would not be appropriate either between old and stone or be-
tween little and old, then no comma is needed.
•  to set o Jr., Sr., or a Roman numeral from a name. Although com-
mas are not necessary with Jr. and Sr., you may use them if you wish;
if so, place one before and aer the abbreviation (choose one style
and use it consistently). Commas never set o Roman numerals
when used as part of a name except when the name is inverted, as in
an index.
Harry Connick Jr. plays piano and sings.
T. Coraghessan Boyle, Sr., is my neighbor.
Adlai E. Stevenson III
Stevenson, Adlai E., III. e Citizen and His Government. Austin, TX:
University of Texas Press, 1984.
See also omission of comma in ZIP code (1.83).
3.2.6 dash. e most common dashes are the em dash (sometimes typed as
two hyphens) and the en dash (sometimes typed as a hyphen).
Use an em dash or a pair of em dashes to indicate a sudden break
or abrupt change in thought:
My world and the real world—what a contrast!
He asked—no demanded—that the door be opened.
to set o interrupting or clarifying elements:
ese are shore deposits—gravel, sand, and clay—but marine depos-
its underlie them.
to introduce a nal statement that summarizes a series of ideas:
Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, free-
dom from fear—these are the fundamentals of moral world order.
to set o a word or phrase in the main clause that emphasizes or
explains:
George worked several days on the  system—a system that was  de-
signed to increase production in the department.
If text set o by a pair of dashes requires a question mark or an ex-
clamation point, place it before the second dash:
Mr. Incredibles unctuous acquaintance Mr. Blowhard—did he realize 
how tiresome he was?—excelled at making stupidity a virtue.
Do not use more than one pair of em dashes in a sentence.
e en dash is one-half the length of an em dash and is longer than
a hyphen. Use an en dash (signifying up to and including or through)
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to connect continuing or inclusive numbers such as dates, time, or
reference numbers:
1957–63
February–March 1971
pages 12–15
e en dash is also used in place of a hyphen in a compound adjec-
tive, one element of which is an open compound or a hyphenated word:
New York–London ight
Air Force–wide changes
quasi-public–quasi-judicial body
Use an en dash (signifying to) to express scores from sporting
events, voting results, and travel expressions even though they dont
reect a range of values:
e Biscuits beat the Lugnuts 12–10 last night.
e delegates to the convention approved the proposal 150–97.
e Chicago–Cleveland train leaves at two o’ clock.
You may also use an en dash to identify a particular university
campus:
e University of Alabama–Tuscaloosa
3.2.7 ellipses. Indicate the omission of a word, phrase, line, or paragraph
from a quoted passage with ellipsis points, which come in threes, are
set on the line like periods, and are separated from each other, from
the text, and from any contiguous punctuation by one space.
Use three ellipsis points to indicate an omission in the middle of
a quoted sentence: “e nuclear-armed GALOSH ABM interceptor
. . . has an inherent ASAT capability against low-altitude satellites.
Indicate the omission of the last part of a sentence by a period and
three ellipsis points (assuming that more quoted material follows).
Leave no space between the period and the preceding word, but use
a space aer the ellipsis points and capitalize the following word if it
begins a complete sentence: “e Soviets also have research programs
under way on kinetic energy weapons. . . . ese programs have been
highly successful.” (Four ellipsis points should be preceded and fol-
lowed by grammatically complete sentences.) If space so dictates, you
may leave the period at the end of a line and begin the next line with
three ellipsis points. You may place a comma, colon, semicolon, ques-
tion mark, or an exclamation point either before or aer three ellipsis
points (but not four): “What is the major strength of the Soviet space
program? . . . is is the question we intended to explore fully.” Re-
member that ellipsis points are seldom used at the beginning or end
of a quoted passage.
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Indicate the omission of one or more paragraphs in a long block
quotation by three ellipsis points following the period at the end of
the paragraph preceding the omitted paragraph. If a paragraph in the
block quotation—other than the rst paragraph—begins with a sen-
tence that does not open the paragraph in the original, it should be
preceded by three ellipsis points:
Such a tremendous increase in capability exceeds their future civil
and scientic requirements. e gap between what we perceive to be
Soviet launch requirements and launch capabilities is of great con-
cern to us. . . .
. . . is system will expand the current US ICBM eld coverage to
include US submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
When you replace part of a quoted passage with dierent wording,
enclose the new term(s) with square brackets, but do not use ellipsis
points to show that the original wording has been omitted:
e nuclear-armed GALOSH ABM interceptor deployed around Mos-
cow has an inherent ASAT capability against low-altitude satellites.
e nuclear-armed GALOSH [missile] deployed around Moscow has
an inherent ASAT capability against low-altitude satellites.
However, if bracketed material is next to ellipsis points which show
that part of a quoted passage has been omitted (and not replaced with
dierent wording), retain the ellipsis points:
e nuclear-armed GALOSH [missile] . . . has an inherent ASAT ca-
pability against low-altitude satellites.
In a run-in quotation, do not use ellipsis points before the rst
word of the quotation, even if the beginning of the original sentence
has been omitted, or aer the last word of the quotation, even if the
end of the original sentence has been omitted:
For example, we now know that the Soviets “are currently producing
about 50 SL-4-/SL-6-type vehicles each year—a rate of nearly one a 
w e e k .”
See also brackets (3.2.2).
3.2.8 hyphenated compound words. No all-inclusive rule exists for hy-
phenating compound words such as many-sided, ill-fated, and mother-
in-law. If you are not sure about a particular compound, look it up in
the dictionary or the Chicago Manual of Styles (16th ed.) hyphen-
ation guide (7.85), or refer to “e Writing of Compounds” in Web-
sters ird New International Dictionary of the English Language, Un-
abridged. e following are a few general principles:
Use a hyphen to prevent ambiguity. For example, slow moving
van could mean a moving van that is slow (in which case, hyphenat-
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ing moving van would be acceptable) or a van that is moving slow-
ly: slow-moving van. Although adjective compounds traditionally are
hyphenated before the noun they modify and are written open aer
the noun, you may omit the hyphen in all cases if there is no chance
of ambiguity or misreading: smoke lled room, red hot iron. is
principle holds true even if the compound is hyphenated in the dic-
tionary. Do not hyphenate an adjective compound consisting of an
adverb ending in -ly plus a participle or an adjective (highly devel-
oped organism).
Hyphenate adjective compounds beginning with well, ill, much,
better, best, little, lesser, and least when they precede the noun, and
leave them open aer the noun: well-dressed man (but the man is
well dressed); best-known work (but the work is best known); ill-
advised action (but the action is ill advised). Leave such compounds
open if another adverb modies only the adverb part of the com-
pound rather than the compound as a whole: very much needed ad-
dition, but very well-read child. If you use quotation marks to enclose
an adjective compound that you would normally hyphenate, you may
omit the hyphen: “well dressed” man. See also well- (4.2.276).
Measurement compounds are also hyphenated: six-inch-wide
board, three-mile limit, 24-gallon tank. If you abbreviate the unit of
measure, omit the hyphen: 24 gal. tank.
Compounds consisting of numerals and the word percent are le
open: 25 percent decrease.
Hyphenate when the second element of a compound is capitalized
or is a number: mid-Atlantic tempest, post-1980 developments.
Hyphenate when spelling the word solid creates a homonym, as in
re-mark (mark again) versus remark (say).
Hyphenate some compounds in which the last letter of the prex
is the same as the rst letter of the word following: anti-intellectual,
anti-inammatory.
Use a “suspension” hyphen to carry the force of a modier to a
later noun: second- or third-rate powers; second-, third-, and fourth-
grade students.
Some noun compounds are always hyphenated: relative words
with great and in-law, such as great-uncle, great-great-grandmother,
sister-in-law; noun plus noun, expressing two dierent but equally
important functions, such as secretary-treasurer; two-word com-
pounds ending in elect, such as governor-elect (but probate judge
elect); some multiple-word compounds including a preposition and
describing someone or something, such as jack-of-all-trades (but
ash in the pan). Some permanent compounds beginning with vice
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are hyphenated, such as vice-chancellor, but not vice admiral or vice
president or viceroy. See also vice- (4.2.255).
Do not hyphenate capitalized geographical terms used as adjec-
tives: Southeast Asian country, Mobile Bay cruise. See also com-
pound words (4.2.52); titles of works (4.1.149).
Hyphenate age terms in both adjective and noun forms: a ve-
year-old child, a ve-year-old.
Hyphenate color words before but not aer a noun: reddish-brown
hair, blue-green water; her hair is reddish brown, the water is blue green.
See also word division (1.78).
3.2.9 omissions. See ellipses (3.2.7).
3.2.10 parentheses. Use parentheses when material inserted in a sentence
is so loosely connected with the main thought of the sentence that
commas would not be adequate. Such insertions may be explanatory,
amplifying, or digressive:
Another illustration reects a much more recent instance of a doctri-
nal notion (table 4).
is manual (issued to all students) covers the fundamental problems.
e funeral for her brother (she misses him terribly) was a sad aair.
If a comma is necessary, place it aer the second parenthesis, not
before the rst. If the parenthetical element within a sentence is itself
a sentence, omit the period but retain a question mark or exclama-
tion point:
As the machine gunner opened re (it was a .50-caliber gun), all
movement ceased.
As the machine gunner opened re (was it a .50-caliber gun?), all
movement ceased.
If parentheses enclose a freestanding sentence, place the period in-
side the second parenthesis:
Albert convinced me to go back to college. (I always found his logic
irresistible.)
Use parentheses to enclose enumerating letters or numerals (with-
out periods) within a sentence:
He wanted to (1) consolidate the position, (2) establish contact with
guerrillas, and (3) regain control over the inhabitants.
3.2.11 period. Place a period at the end of a declarative or imperative sen-
tence. If you use a quotation at the end of a sentence, place the period
within the closing quotation mark (double or single). If you use a
quotation before the end of a sentence, omit the period or replace
it with a comma. To separate sentences, use only one space aer a
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closing quotation mark, as well as aer a period or other terminal
punctuation (e.g., question mark, exclamation point) (see also colon
[3.2.4]). When using parentheses or brackets to enclose a freestand-
ing sentence, place the period inside the nal parenthesis or bracket.
If the enclosed matter is part of a sentence, place the period outside
the nal parenthesis or bracket. If a question mark or exclamation
point is part of the end of a title, do not replace it with a period in
contexts in which the period would normally appear.
e commander said, “You’re only half right.
One should always say, ‘I mean what I say.
“I’m sure I say what I mean,” said Alice. e Cheshire Cat, however,
didn’t believe her.
e decision to keep the sentence or drop it is a judgment call. (Writ-
ing is hard work precisely because it requires so many judgment calls.)
e driver glanced in his rearview mirror at the passenger (certainly
an eccentric fellow).
Arkin, William M. “Baghdad: e Urban Sanctuary in Desert Storm?”
Airpower Journal, Spring 1997, 4–20.
Last night I watched the movie Help! I had forgotten how funny it is.
See also Dr. (doctor) (2.143); Jr. (2.258); lists (1.43); Mr., Mrs., Ms.
(2.310); no. (2.334); parentheses (3.2.10); quotation marks (3.2.14);
Sr. (2.441); Truman, Harry S. (1.65).
3.2.12 possessive. See apostrophe (3.2.1).
3.2.13 question mark. Put a question mark at the end of a direct question
that stands alone, as well as one that occurs within a sentence:
How can I miss you if you won’t go away?
How am I going to pass this test? was the question I kept asking myself.
As Mary asked herself, Why am I doing this for him? she glared bale-
fully at John.
Do not put a question mark at the end of an indirect question:
I asked him what he was doing.
How he had managed to fool me was the question no one could answer.
Put a question mark inside quotation marks, parentheses, or
brackets only when it is part of the quoted or parenthetical matter:
e colonel asked, “Did you receive our inspection report?
Did you say, “e base commander wants the report immediately”?
Which of the concepts do you believe to be generally shared (at least
by your contemporaries)?
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3.2.14 quotation marks. Enclose quoted words, phrases, and sentences in
double quotation marks. Use single quotation marks to enclose quo-
tations within quotations. Quotations within block quotations re-
quire double quotation marks.
2. Ellen Nakashima and Craig Whitlock, “With Air Forces Gorgon
Drone ‘We Can See Everything,’ ” Washington Post, 2 January 2011.
A. Q. Khan noted that throughout history there have been certain in-
dividuals who achieved recognition in certain areas. Shaikh Saadi said:
“Honour is not earned, it is conferred by the One Who Confers.” Accord-
ing to this concept, if a great deed is accomplished by someone, he should
regard it as a gi of God rather than “the muscles of his own arms.” It is a
special favour from God that a particular individual is selected by provi-
dence and singled out for a specic task.
71
Enclose a nickname in quotation marks when it accompanies the
full name:
George Herman “Babe” Ruth
Omit the quotation marks when a nickname is used as part of or
in place of a personal name:
Stonewall Jackson
the Iron Duke
Enclose a conference title in quotation marks:
American Writers in the 1930s,” a symposium held at the University
of Alabama, 15–16 September 1975
but
the 1994 State Conference on Writing across the Curriculum
Use quotation marks to enclose words used in an ironic sense, refer-
ences to spoken language, and slang terms. Subsequent occurrences of
these terms need not include the quotation marks. See also italics (4.4).
e “consultation” could be heard three blocks away.
In Elizabethan dialogue, a change from “you” to “thou” oen implies
studied insult.
Jacobs grandfather called his Adams apple his “go fetch it.
Place a comma or a nal period within quotation marks, single or
double. Put other punctuation marks within quotation marks only if
they are part of the quotation. See also period (3.2.11); question mark
(3.2.13).
He said, “I will go.
He asked, “Shall we evacuate the area?”
“I am sure he used the word ‘moron.
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If you place quotation marks around an adjective compound that you
would normally hyphenate, you may omit the hyphen: “well dressed” man.
Place a colon outside quotation marks or parentheses:
ere is one problem with Walt Whitmans “O Captain, My Captain”:
it is doggerel.
You may use quotation marks to refer to a word as a word (see also
italics [4.4]):
e word “boy” has a pejorative sense in some contexts.
Do not enclose words such as yes, no, where, how, and why in quo-
tation marks when they are used singly, except in direct discourse:
Ezra always answered yes; he could never say no to a friend.
“Yes,” he replied weakly.
Enclose in quotation marks the titles of articles in journals and
newspapers; chapter titles; the titles of dra versions of books and
other unpublished works; and the titles of short stories, short poems,
dissertations, theses, essays, and Air Force doctrine annexes (see
“Doctrine Publications, Manuals, Instructions, Directives, and Oth-
ers” in “Appendix A: Note Citations” and “Appendix B: Bibliographic
Entries”). See also italics (4.4); mottoes (1.44); words as words (4.4.23).
3.2.15 semicolon. Use a semicolon to separate independent clauses not con-
nected by a coordinating conjunction:
John stayed home for the holidays; he had nowhere else to go.
Use a semicolon (not a comma) before words such as however, there-
fore, hence, consequently, moreover, nevertheless, and so forth, when they
connect two independent clauses. (Use a comma aer these words.)
All such missions should remain secondary to the primary mission;
however, all commanders of ying Air Force units must prepare to y
such missions with minimum notice.
You may want to use a semicolon with a coordinating conjunction
in a compound sentence whose independent clauses are long and
contain internal punctuation:
Ishmael, the narrator, goes to sea, he says, “whenever it is a damp, drizzly
November” in his soul; and Ahab, the captain of the ship, goes to sea be-
cause of his obsession to hunt and kill the great albino whale, Moby Dick.
When items in a series are lengthy or contain internal punctuation,
separate them by semicolons:
Mark prepared for the exam by reading the material, which caused
him great diculty; by studying with Tom, who knew less than he
did; and by praying, which he did frequently.
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We will need the following supplies: pencils, three boxes; pens, ve
boxes; paper, four reams; typewriter ribbons, een; and staples, two
boxes.
Place a semicolon outside quotation marks or parentheses:
Dans favorite poem is “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”; he
reads it whenever he feels troubled.
Sam gave his wife a toaster oven for her birthday (he was a very prac-
tical fellow); needless to say, she was overwhelmed.
3.2.16 series of items. e number of commas separating items in a series
should be one fewer than the number of items in the series. Hence,
three items in a series should be separated by two commas: planes,
boats, and trains. See also comma (3.2.5).
3.2.17 slash. Use a slash (/) to indicate alternatives. If one of the terms is an
open compound, use a space before and aer the slash: he/she, and/
or, Hercules/Heracles, World War I / World War II. In URLs, do not
use a space before or aer single or double slashes. In printed copy, a
line may break before a single slash but not between two slashes. See
also and/or (1.9), dates (1.24), URL (2.486), DOI (2.142).
3.2.18 year (punctuation with). See dates (4.3.6).
3.2.19 zip code or ZIP (zone improvement plan) code (punctuation with).
See 1.83.
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4.0 Mechanics
4.1 Capitalization
Use as few capital letters as possible, and avoid capitalizing any-
time you are in doubt. e following conventions will help you decide
whether capital letters are appropriate.
Proper nouns—those that name a particular person, place, or
thing—are capitalized. One test of a proper noun is that it does not
take a limiting modier; thus, “this [or] any [or] some 857th Combat
Support Group,” for example, is not appropriate (since theres only
one such group). However, a common noun, which isnt capitalized,
can take a limiting modier, as in “this combat support group” (since
its generic). Because the following examples can take a limiting mod-
ier, they are common nouns and, therefore, are not capitalized:
base supply
civil engineer squadron
military personnel ight
accounting and nance oce
Capitalize civil, military, religious, and professional titles and titles
of nobility when they immediately precede someones name:
President Obama General Fadok
Secretary of Defense Hagel Sergeant Mann
Queen Caroline Professor Elliott
Cardinal Richelieu Colonel Allen
Capitalize titles associated with more than one person:
Generals Grant and Lee
Lowercase titles that follow someones name or that stand alone:
Barack Obama, president of the United States the president
Chuck Hagel, secretary of defense the secretary
Richard Shelby, senator from Alabama the senator
Gen Mark A. Welsh III, Air Force chief of sta the chief of sta
Lt Gen David S. Fadok, the commander
Air University commander and president and president
Lowercase titles used in apposition to a name—no commas (see
comma, “restrictive clauses” [3.2.5]; appositives [3.1.3]):
Montgomery mayor Todd Strange
Air Force general Edward Rice
Capitalize the names of buildings, monuments, and so forth:
the White House the Eiel Tower
the Israeli Embassy the Tomb of the Unknowns
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Capitalize the full and (oentimes) the shortened names of na-
tional governmental and military bodies:
US Congress Congress
Department of Defense Defense Department, the department
Department of State State Department, the department
US Air Force Air Force
US Army Army
US Marine Corps Marine Corps, Marines, the Corps
US Navy Navy
Montgomery City Council the city council
Capitalize the full names of boards, committees, organizations,
and bureaus:
National Labor Relations Board
Committee on Foreign Aairs
Organization of American States
Bureau of the Census
Veterans Administration
Do not capitalize shortened forms of the full titles for departments,
directorates, centers, and similar organizations; the same principle
applies to the names of conferences:
Department of Labor the department
Directorate of Data Processing the directorate
Center for Strategic Studies the center
Special Plans Division the division
Air University Press the press
Design Branch the branch
Western Region Writing-Style Conference the conference
Capitalize the full titles of treaties, laws, acts, bills, amendments,
and similar documents, but lowercase their shortened forms:
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty the treaty
Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty the treaty
Treaty of Verdun the treaty
National Labor Relations Act the labor act, the act
First Amendment (to the US Constitution) the amendment
Capitalize the full names of judicial bodies; lowercase shortened
forms and adjective derivatives:
California Supreme Court, state supreme court
Circuit Court of Calhoun County, county court, circuit court
trac court, juvenile court
Capitalize the names of national and international organizations,
movements, alliances, and members of such organizations and politi-
cal parties. e words party and movement are capitalized when they
are part of an organizations name.
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e African National Congress party
Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshevik movement, Bolshevism; bolshevist,
bolshevism (referring to the theory or system of thought and to its
adherents/advocates)
Communist Party, the party, Communist(s) (member[s] of the or-
ganization or movement), Communist bloc, Communism (refer-
ring to the Marxist doctrine or totalitarian system of government);
communism, communist (referring to the theory or system of
thought and to its adherents/advocates)
Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
Common Market
Democratic Party, Democrat, democracy, democrat (general advo-
cate of democracy)
Eastern bloc
Fascist Party, Fascist(s); fascism, fascist (referring to the theory or sys-
tem of thought and to its adherents/advocates)
Federalist Party, Federalist(s); federalism, federalist (referring to the
theory or system of thought and to its adherents/advocates)
Holy Alliance, the alliance
Marxism-Leninism, Marxist-Leninist; marxism, marxist (referring
to the theory or system of thought and to its adherents/advocates)
right wing, right-winger, leist, the Right, the Le
Socialist Party, the party; socialism, socialist (referring to the theory
or system of thought and to its adherents/advocates)
Capitalize the names of generally accepted historical or cultural
epochs:
Dark Ages
Jazz Age
Middle Ages
Reformation
Roaring Twenties
but
information age
Capitalize the full titles of armies, navies, air forces, eets, regi-
ments, battalions, companies, corps, and so forth. Lowercase the
words army, navy, air force, and so forth, when they are not part of an
ocial title (except when they refer to US forces). Similarly, capitalize
the ocial names of foreign military forces, but lowercase subsequent
references to those forces:
Allied armies
Al Quwwat al Jawwiya il Misriya, Egyptian air force, the air force
Army of Northern Virginia
Axis powers
Confederate army (American Civil War)
Continental army (American Revolution)
Eighth Air Force
Fih Army, the Fih, the army
1st Battalion, 178th Infantry; the battalion, the 178th
3d [or 3rd] Infantry Division, the division, the infantry
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1st Armored Division, the division
III Corps Artillery
French foreign legion
Fuerza Aérea Argentina, Argentinean air force, the air force
Heyl Haavir, Israeli air force, the air force
Luwae, the German air force
Nihon Koku Jieitai, Japan air self-defense force, the air self-defense force
the 187th Fighter Group (Air National Guard), the group
Peoples Liberation Army, Red Chinas army, the army
Red Army (Russian, World War II), Russian army
Royal Air Force, British air force, the air force
Royal Navy, British navy, the navy
Royal Scots Fusiliers, the fusiliers
Seventh Fleet, the eet
Twenty-First Air Force
Union army (American Civil War)
United States Air Force, the Air Force
United States Army, the Army, the American Army, the armed forces
United States Coast Guard, the Coast Guard
United States Marine Corps, the Marine Corps, the US Marines,
the Marines, the Corps, Fleet Marine Corps
United States Navy, the Navy
United States Signal Corps, the Signal Corps
Capitalize the full titles of wars, but lowercase the words war and
battle when used alone:
American Civil War, the Civil War, the war
American Revolution, the Revolution, the Revolutionary War
Battle of Britain
Battle of the Bulge, the bulge
Battle of Bunker Hill, Bunker Hill, the battle
the Blitz
European theater of operations
Falklands War
Gulf War
Korean conict
Korean War
Operation Overlord
Seven Years’ War
Spanish civil war
Tet Oensive
Vicksburg campaign
Vietnam War
western front (World War I)
World War I (or 1), the First World War, the war, the two world wars
World War II (or 2), the Second World War, the war
Capitalize the names of medals and awards:
Distinguished Flying Cross
Medal of Honor
Purple Heart
Victoria Cross
Croix de Guerre (sometimes lowercased)
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Capitalize but dont italicize the designations of make, names of
planes, and names of space programs:
Boeing 747 Project Apollo
Concorde Trident missile
Nike U-boat
Do not capitalize or italicize generic types of vessels, aircra, and
so forth:
aircra carrier
space shuttle
submarine
Capitalize the titles of ocial documents, instructions, directives,
letters, standard forms, and shortened forms of titles, but dont capi-
talize common nouns that refer to them:
AFMAN 13-220, Deployment of Aireld Operations the manual
AFPAM 11-216, Air Navigation the pamphlet
AFPD 10-1, Mission Directives the policy directive
AFI 63-101, Acquisition and Sustainment
Life Cycle Management the instruction
Capitalize such words as empire, state, county, and so forth, that
designate political divisions of the world, when they are part of a
proper name. Lowercase these terms when they are not part of a
proper name or when they stand alone:
Montgomery County, the county
11th Congressional District, the congressional district, the district
Fih Ward, the ward
Indiana Territory, the territory of Indiana, the territory
New England states
New York City, the city of New York, the city
Roman Empire, the empire
Washington State, the state of Washington
the British colonies
Capitalize all principal words in titles and subheadings. See also
titles of works (4.1.149).
Capitalize proper names that designate parts of the world or spe-
cic regions:
Central America eastern Europe, but Eastern
central Europe, but Central Europe Europe (political division)
(political division of World War I) Far East
the Continent (Europe), the Far West
European continent the Gulf, Persian Gulf region
the East, easterner, eastern the North, northerner, Northerner
seaboard (Civil War context)
East Coast North Africa, northern Africa
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North American continent Tropic of Cancer
North Pole West Coast
the South, southerner, Southerner western Europe, but Western
(Civil War context) Europe (political division)
Southeast Asia Western world
Southern Hemishpere
South Pacic, southern Pacic
the Southwest (US)
Lowercase the names of the four seasons unless they are personi-
ed; however, capitalize them as part of the date of publication in
note references:
spring, summer, fall, winter
In April, Spring sends her showers to pierce the drought of March.
2. Dr. James H. Toner, “Military OR Ethics,Air and Space Power
Journal 17, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 80.
Capitalize the names of specic academic courses:
DS 613-Strategic Force Employment
CL 6362-Air Sta Familiarization
Capitalize registered trademark names (see also trademarks [1.64]):
Coca-Cola (but cola drink) Levis
Kleenex (but tissue) Ping-Pong (but table tennis)
Band-Aid Xerox (but xerox [verb])
Capitalize signs, notices, and mottoes in text (see also mottoes
[4.1.105]):
e company had a No Entrance sign at the gate.
e cry of the French Revolution was Liberty, Equality, and
Fraternity.
Capitalize the generic part of proper nouns when it occurs in the
plural, whether it follows or precedes the nouns:
the Alabama and Mississippi Rivers
Fairview and Maple Streets
Mounts Washington and Rainier
4.1.1 active Air Force
4.1.2 active duty (n., adj.)
4.1.3 acts, amendments, bills, and laws. Capitalize the full title (formal or
popular) of an act or a law, but lowercase all shortened forms: Atomic
Energy Act, the act; Sherman Antitrust Law, the antitrust law, the
law; Article 6, the article.
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A legislative measure is a bill until it is enacted; it then becomes an
act or a law. Lowercase the names of bills and proposed constitutional
amendments: equal rights amendment (not ratied), food stamp bill.
Capitalize the formal title of an enacted and ratied amendment
to the United States Constitution (including the number): the Fih
Amendment, the 18th Amendment. But lowercase informal titles of
amendments: the income tax amendment.
4.1.4 AD (anno Domini). Write the abbreviation using either small caps
with or without periods or full caps without periods (choose one style
and use it consistently); the abbreviation precedes the year: AD 107.
See also BC (before Christ) (2.75, 4.1.26).
4.1.5 administration. Capitalize administration as part of the proper name
of an agency: General Services Administration. Lowercase the term
as part of the name of a political organization: Nixon administration.
4.1.6 agency. Capitalize agency in proper names, but lowercase the short-
ened form: Federal Security Agency, the agency.
4.1.7 air base. Capitalize air base when it is part of a proper noun: Kadena
Air Base, Japan. Lowercase the shortened form: the air base.
4.1.8 air force. Capitalize air force when you refer to the US service: United
States Air Force, Air Force. Use lowercase letters for an air force in
general. Capitalize the term when it is part of the ocial name of a
foreign air force: Royal Air Force. Use lowercase letters for subse-
quent references: British air force. See also capitalization (4.1).
4.1.9 Air Force base. Capitalize base when the full term is part of a proper
noun: Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Otherwise, lowercase base:
the Air Force base.
4.1.10 Air Force One (the presidents aircra)
4.1.11 AirLand Battle
4.1.12 Airman, Airmen (capitalize in references to US Air Force personnel)
4.1.13 Air Sta
4.1.14 allied, allies. Capitalize allied or allies in the context of World War I
and World War II.
4.1.15 a.m. (ante meridiem [before noon]). Either write the abbreviation in
lowercase with periods or set it in small caps without periods (choose
one style and use it consistently). See also p.m. (post meridiem [aer
noon]) (4.1.117).
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4.1.16 amendments. See acts, amendments, bills, and laws (4.1.3).
4.1.17 appendix. Capitalize appendix as a document title: Appendix A, Ap-
pendix B, Appendix C. Lowercase the term in textual references (see
appendix A). If you wish to include a document such as an Air Force
instruction as an appendix to your study, reproduce that document
verbatim.
4.1.18 armed forces
4.1.19 army. Capitalize army when you refer to the US service: United
States Army, Army. Lowercase the term when you refer to an army
in general. Capitalize army when it is part of the ocial name of a
foreign army: Red Army. Use lowercase letters for subsequent refer-
ences: Russian army. See also capitalization (4.1).
4.1.20 article (part of a document). See acts, amendments, bills, and laws
(4.1.3).
4.1.21 associates degree. Capitalize the name of the degree (Associate of
Arts, Associate of Science) when it follows someones name (John
Smith, Associate of Arts). Lowercase when referring to the degree in
general terms (John Smith has an associate of arts degree). See also
academic degrees and titles (2.9); bachelor’s degree (4.1.22); doctor-
ate (4.1.55); masters degree (4.1.96).
4.1.22 bachelor’s degree. Capitalize the name of the degree (Bachelor of
Arts, Bachelor of Science) when it follows someones name (John
Smith, Bachelor of Arts). Lowercase when referring to the degree in
general terms (John Smith has a bachelor of arts degree). See also
academic degrees and titles (2.9); associates degree (4.1.21); doctor-
ate (4.1.55); masters degree (4.1.96).
4.1.23 battalion. Capitalize battalion in proper names: 3d [or 3rd] Battalion,
10th Battalion.
4.1.24 battle. Capitalize battle in proper names: Battle of the Bulge, Battle of
Bunker Hill.
4.1.25 Battleeld Airman/Airmen
4.1.26 BC (before Christ). Write the abbreviation using either small caps
with or without periods or full caps without periods (choose one style
and use it consistently); the abbreviation follows the year: 240 BC.
See also AD (anno Domini) (2.13, 4.1.4).
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4.1.27 Berlin airli
4.1.28 Berlin Wall
4.1.29 bills (congressional). See acts, amendments, bills, and laws (4.1.3).
4.1.30 black (people) (n., adj.). You may either capitalize or lowercase this
term; choose one style and use it consistently. See also white (people)
(4.1.159).
4.1.31 board. Capitalize board when it is part of a proper name: National
Labor Relations Board. Lowercase it in generic references: the board.
4.1.32 Bosnian crisis
4.1.33 building names. Capitalize the names of governmental buildings,
churches, oce buildings, hotels, and specially designated rooms: the
Capitol (state or national), Criminal Courts Building, First Presbyte-
rian Church, Empire State Building, Oak Room.
4.1.34 bureau. Capitalize bureau when it is part of a proper name but not
in reference to a newspaper’s news bureau: Bureau of Indian Aairs,
Newspaper Advertising Bureau, Washington bureau of the New York
Times.
4.1.35 chief of sta. See capitalization (4.1).
4.1.36 civil service
4.1.37 coalition forces
4.1.38 cold war or Cold War. Lowercase cold war in references to an ideo-
logical conict in general; uppercase the term in references to the
ideological conict between the United States and the Soviet Union.
4.1.39 committee. See congressional committees and subcommittees (4.1.46).
4.1.40 communism. Lowercase when referring to the theory or system of
thought. Capitalize when referring to the Marxist doctrine or a totali-
tarian system of government, as in the former Soviet Union. See also
capitalization (4.1).
4.1.41 communist (n., adj.) Lowercase as a noun or adjective when referring
to an adherent or advocate of the theory or system of thought. Capital-
ize as a noun or adjective when referring to a member, adherent, or
advocate of a Communist organization or movement or to a person
involved in revolutionary activities. See also capitalization (4.1).
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4.1.42 Communist bloc. See also capitalization (4.1).
4.1.43 Communist Party. See also capitalization (4.1).
4.1.44 Congress. Capitalize congress when referring to the US Congress.
4.1.45 congressional. Lowercase congressional except when it is part of a
particular title or oce: Congressional Record, Congressional Budget
Oce, congressional district.
4.1.46 congressional committees and subcommittees. Capitalize commit-
tee or subcommittee when either word is part of a full title: Committee
on Foreign Aairs, the committee; Subcommittee on Energy and the
Environment, the subcommittee.
4.1.47 congressman, congresswoman. Lowercase congressman and con-
gresswoman except when they precede a persons name. Capitalize
senator and representative when they precede a persons name: Con-
gresswoman Lowey, the congresswoman from New York; Senator
Shelby, the senator from Alabama. See also abbreviations (2.0).
4.1.48 constitutional amendments. Capitalize the full titles of amendments
to the US Constitution: Fih Amendment, 18th Amendment, the
amendment. See also acts, amendments, bills, and laws (4.1.3).
4.1.49 courses, academic. See capitalization (4.1).
4.1.50 Cuban missile crisis
4.1.51 Democratic Party, Democrat(s) (member[s] of the party), democ-
racy. See also capitalization (4.1).
4.1.52 department. See capitalization (4.1).
4.1.53 directions (north, south, east, west, north-northwest [NNW],
north-northeast [NNE], south-southwest [SSW], south-southeast
[SSE]). See also capitalization (4.1).
4.1.54 director, directorate. See capitalization (4.1).
4.1.55 doctorate. Capitalize the name of the degree (Doctor of Philosophy,
Doctor of Education) when it follows someones name (John Smith,
Doctor of Philosophy). Lowercase when referring to the degree in
general terms (John Smith has a doctorate). See also academic de-
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Capitalization
grees and titles (2.9); associates degree (4.1.21); bachelors degree
(4.1.22); masters degree (4.1.96).
4.1.56 earth. In nonscientic writing, lowercase “earth” preceded by “the
or in expressions such as “down to earth.” Capitalize the term used as
the proper name of our planet, usually without “the.
e earths beauty is astounding.
What on earth are you doing?
e probe le Earth on its journey to Mars.
In nonscientic writing, lowercase “sun” and “moon” and their plurals.
He has seen eclipses of both the moon and the sun.
Titan is the largest of Saturns moons.
4.1.57 Earth station
4.1.58 e-mail (n., sing. and pl.; verb)
4.1.59 e-mailer (n.)
4.1.60 empire. See capitalization (4.1).
4.1.61 exercises. Capitalize only the initial letter(s) of the name of the exer-
cise unless the name is an acronym: Desert Strike, REFORGER (re-
turn of forces to Germany). See also operations, names of (4.1.111).
4.1.62 federal, federal government
4.1.63 oor leader. Lowercase oor leader, whether preceding or following
the name:
He consulted oor leader Hugh L. Brown, a Republican.
Rep. Hugh L. Brown, the Republican oor leader, was available for
questions.
4.1.64 foreign military services. See capitalization (4.1).
4.1.65 fort. Spell out and capitalize fort when it is part of a proper name:
Fort Hood.
4.1.66 free world or Free World
4.1.67 führer or fuehrer
4.1.68 general (military rank). See abbreviations (2.0); capitalization (4.1);
military titles and oces (2.296).
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4.1.69 Geneva convention(s)
4.1.70 g-force
4.1.71 global war on terrorism (GWOT)
4.1.72 government, federal government, US government
4.1.73 group. Capitalize group when it is part of a proper name: 42d [or
42nd] Medical Group, the group.
4.1.74 G suit
4.1.75 Gulf War. See also capitalization (4.1); Persian Gulf War (4.1.115).
4.1.76 headquarters. Spell out and capitalize headquarters when referring
to Air Force headquarters and headquarters of major commands:
Headquarters USAF, Headquarters ACC, but the headquarters.
4.1.77 highway. Capitalize highway in proper names, but lowercase the short-
ened form: Alcan Highway, the highway. Use Arabic numerals to des-
ignate state, federal, and interstate highways: Interstate 85, Alabama 41.
4.1.78 Ho Chi Minh Trail
4.1.79 house. Capitalize house when referring to the House of Representa-
tives, in full or shortened form: the House. Lowercase in other con-
texts: the lower house of Congress.
4.1.80 information age
4.1.81 international date line
4.1.82 Internet (the global network of computers)
4.1.83 iron curtain. e term iron curtain is oen capitalized when it refers
to the political, military, and ideological barrier that isolated an area
under control of the former Soviet Union.
4.1.84 jeep. Lowercase jeep when referring to a military vehicle. Capitalize
when referring to the trademark of the civilian vehicle.
4.1.85 joint doctrine
4.1.86 Joint Sta. e sta under the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Sta.
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4.1.87 journals. Capitalize all main words of the title of a journal, and itali-
cize both the full title and its abbreviation: Air and Space Power Jour-
nal, ASPJ. See also italics (4.4); titles of works (4.1.149).
4.1.88 judicial branch. See capitalization (4.1).
4.1.89 Korean conict
4.1.90 Korean War
4.1.91 laws. See acts, amendments, bills, and laws (4.1.3).
4.1.92 legislative bodies, legislative branch. See capitalization (4.1).
4.1.93 localities and regions. Capitalize the popular names of specic lo-
calities and regions: East Side, Sun Belt, Twin Cities. See also capital-
ization (4.1).
4.1.94 Marine Corps, Marine(s), Marine. Capitalize Marine(s) as a syn-
onym for the US Marine Corps: Jim enlisted in the Marines; a Ma-
rine landing. Also capitalize references to individuals (US personnel):
three Marines, a company of Marines. Shortened title: Marine Corps,
the Corps.
4.1.95 Marshall Plan, the plan
4.1.96 master’s degree. Capitalize the name of the degree (Master of Arts,
Master of Science) when it follows someones name (John Smith,
Master of Arts). Lowercase when referring to the degree in general
terms (John Smith has a master of arts degree). See also academ-
ic degrees and titles (2.9); MPMS (2.309); MMOAS (2.300); MSS
(2.313); associates degree (4.1.21); bachelor’s degree (4.1.22); doc-
torate (4.1.55).
4.1.97 medals. Capitalize names of specic medals and awards:
Medal of Honor
Distinguished Flying Cross
Legion of Merit
See also capitalization (4.1).
4.1.98 Middle Ages
4.1.99 MiG(s). Capital M, lowercase i, capital G. Soviet aircra developed by
the design bureau of Gen Artem Mikoyan and Gen Mikhail Gurevich.
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4.1.100 military establishment
4.1.101 military-industrial complex
4.1.102 military terms. Capitalize proper names of armies, navies, air
forces, eets, regiments, battalions, companies, corps, and so forth.
Lowercase the words army, navy, air force, and so forth, standing
alone or when they are not part of a proper name (except when they
refer to US forces):
When questioned about a separate air force, the general saw it as a
matter for the Army to decide.
See also capitalization (4.1).
4.1.103 military titles and oces. See 2.296.
4.1.104 moon. See also earth (4.1.56).
4.1.105 mottoes. Enclose mottoes and similar expressions in quotation
marks, capitalize them as if they were titles, or capitalize the rst
word only:
A penny saved is a penny earned” was his favorite maxim.
e ag bore the motto Dont Tread on Me.
He was fond of the motto All for one and one for all.
4.1.106 naval forces. Lowercase naval forces, but use Navy forces in the con-
text of the US Navy.
4.1.107 naval station. Capitalize naval station only in proper names: Nor-
folk Naval Station, the naval station, the station. Use Navy station to
refer to a US Navy installation.
4.1.108 Navy. Capitalize Navy when referring to the US service. For foreign
naval forces, see capitalization (4.1).
4.1.109 nuclear triad
4.1.110 ocials, government. See capitalization (4.1).
4.1.111 operations, names of. Write the names of operations with ini-
tial capital letters: Operation Hayli, Operation Torch, Operation
Crossroad, Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, Operation
Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom.
4.1.112 organizations. See capitalization (4.1).
4.1.113 panzer, Panzer IV (German tank); panzer division, 17th Panzer
Division (German armored division)
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4.1.114 party (political). See capitalization (4.1).
4.1.115 Persian Gulf War. See also capitalization (4.1); Gulf War (4.1.75).
4.1.116 plans. Capitalize the names of military plans.
Air War Plans Division, Plan 1 (AWPD-1), Munitions Require-
ments of the Army Air Forces
4.1.117 p.m. (post meridiem [aer noon]). Either write the abbreviation
in lowercase with periods or set it in small caps without periods
(choose one style and use it consistently). See also a.m. (ante meri-
diem [before noon]) (4.1.15).
4.1.118 president. Capitalize president only when the term precedes a per-
sons name; otherwise, lowercase it. You may either capitalize and
spell out or capitalize and abbreviate president when it precedes a
full name (choose one style and use it consistently): President John
F. Kennedy or Pres. John F. Kennedy; President Kennedy; the presi-
dent. See also capitalization (4.1); abbreviations (2.0).
4.1.119 RAND or RAND Corporation
4.1.120 regiment. 2d [or 2nd] Armored Cavalry Regiment, the regiment.
See also capitalization (4.1); military units (4.3.17).
4.1.121 regions of the world. See capitalization (4.1).
4.1.122 regular. Capitalize regular when it is part of the name of a compo-
nent: Regular Air Force, Regular Army.
4.1.123 Republican Party, Republican(s) (member[s] of the party). See
also capitalization (4.1).
4.1.124 Reserve(s). Capitalize Reserve(s) if the term is part of the name of
a component: Air Force Reserve, Ready Reserve, Standby Reserve.
Capitalize it as a synonym for Air Force Reserve: the Reserve. But
reserve component, the reserve ocer, the reservist(s) (all generic,
service unspecied). As a guide to capitalization, apply the follow-
ing test: if Air Force Reserve can be logically substituted for reserve,
use R. e same rule applies to other military services.
4.1.125 Sailor (in references to US personnel)
4.1.126 seasons. Do not capitalize the four seasons unless they are personi-
ed: spring, summer, fall, winter. Capitalize them in publication
dates in endnotes for journal references: (Fall 2003). See also capi-
talization (4.1).
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4.1.127 security classication. Capitalize only the initial letter of a term
indicating a specic security classication: Secret, Condential.
4.1.128 Senate. Capitalize this term in references to the US Senate.
4.1.129 senator. You may either capitalize and spell out or capitalize and
abbreviate senator when it precedes a full name (choose one style
and use it consistently); capitalize and spell out the term when it
precedes a surname only; lowercase the term when it follows a
personal name or is used alone in place of a name: Senator Rich-
ard Shelby or Sen. Richard Shelby; Senator Shelby; Richard Shelby,
Republican senator from Alabama; the senator from Alabama. See
also abbreviations (2.0); capitalization (4.1).
4.1.130 service. Lowercase service in references to one of a nations military
forces (e.g., an army or navy).
4.1.131 show of force
4.1.132 Signal Corps, the corps
4.1.133 Smithsonian Institution
4.1.134 Socialist Party, Socialist (member of the party), socialism (the-
ory or school of thought), socialist (advocate of socialism). See
also capitalization (4.1).
4.1.135 Soldier (in references to US personnel)
4.1.136 South. Capitalize in references to a specic geographical region.
See also capitalization (4.1).
4.1.137 space programs. Capitalize but do not italicize the names of space
programs: Project Apollo.
4.1.138 space shuttle
4.1.139 Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Speaker of the
House, the Speaker. Capitalize Speaker to avoid ambiguity.
4.1.140 Spetsnaz
4.1.141 Sputnik. Capitalize this term; italicize when it is part of the name of
a specic satellite: Sputnik II.
4.1.142 squadron. Capitalize squadron in references to a numbered unit,
but lowercase it when used alone: 732d [or 732nd] Bomber Squad-
ron, the squadron.
4.1.143 standby (n., adj.). Capitalize standby in references to the Air Force
Reserve: Standby Reserve. See also Reserve(s) (4.1.124).
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4.1.144 stealth bomber, stealth technology
4.1.145 sun. See also earth (4.1.56).
4.1.146 Supreme Court (of the United States). Shortened form: the Court.
See also capitalization (4.1).
4.1.147 theater, theatre. Shortened form of theater of operations or theater
of war. Lowercase, as in European theater. Either spelling is stan-
dard; choose one and use it consistently.
4.1.148 third world or ird World (n., adj.)
4.1.149 titles of works. Capitalize the rst and last words and all nouns,
pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and subordinating conjunc-
tions in titles and subheadings. Lowercase articles (the, a, an), co-
ordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, for, nor, yet, so), and preposi-
tions, unless they are the rst or last words of the title or subtitle.
Lowercase the to in innitives. Lowercase the word as.
e Problem with Our Airpower Doctrine
Always capitalize the rst element of a hyphenated compound
word in a title; capitalize the other elements unless they are articles,
prepositions, or coordinating conjunctions:
Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Over-the-Hill Gang
Fly-by-Night Businesses
Do not capitalize the second element of a hyphenated prex un-
less it is a proper noun or proper adjective:
Anti-inationary Guidelines
Non-Christian Religions
Capitalize the second element of a hyphenated, spelled-out number:
Lolitas Twenty-First Birthday
Capitalize the nal element of a hyphenated compound at the
end of a title unless it is a hyphenated prex:
Avoiding a Run-In
Haven of Anti-intellectualism
See also italics (4.4).
4.1.150 treaties, pacts, and plans. See capitalization (4.1).
4.1.151 Vietnam War
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4.1.152 wars. Capitalize full titles of wars, but lowercase the shortened
form: Spanish-American War, the war; Korean War, the war; Viet-
nam War, the war.
4.1.153 Warsaw Pact, Warsaw Pact nations
4.1.154 Web (or web) terms. e Chicago Manual of Style recommends
lowercasing “web” (from “World Wide Web”) when it appears
alone or with other generic terms: web, website (one word), web
page. However, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary lists both
lowercased and uppercased forms of the term: Web, Web site (two
words), webcam (oen cap), webcast (oen cap), webmaster (oen
cap). Choose one system and use it consistently. World Wide Web
and Internet remain capitalized.
See also WWW (World Wide Web) (2.525).
4.1.155 West(ern). Capitalize terms that include West(ern) if they are con-
sidered proper names; lowercase such terms if they are not consid-
ered proper names or if they are merely directional: Western world,
the West, Midwest (US), Far West, but western, far western, western
Pacic Ocean. See also capitalization (4.1).
4.1.156 western front (World War I)
4.1.157 Western Hemisphere
4.1.158 white paper. Lowercase white paper unless it is part of a title:
e State Department summarized its ndings in a white paper on
terrorism.
e State Department released its ndings in a report, “A White
Paper on Terrorism.
4.1.159 white (people) (n., adj.). You may either capitalize or lowercase
this term; choose one style and use it consistently. See also black
(people) (4.1.30).
4.1.160 wing. Capitalize wing when it is part of a proper name: 42d [or
42nd] Air Base Wing but the wing.
4.1.161 work order. Lowercase work order when it is used generically. Cap-
italize the term when it is part of a title (e.g., Minor Maintenance
Work Order [AF Form 1827]).
4.1.162 Wright brothers
4.1.163 Xerox (n.), xerox (v.). See also 1.81, 4.1.
4.1.164 zip code or ZIP (zone improvement plan) code. See also 1.83.
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4.2 Spelling and Word Formation
is style guide uses Websters ird New International Dictionary
of the English Language, Unabridged and the 11th edition of Merriam-
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary as authoritative sources for the spell-
ing of common words. ese dictionaries oen identify variations in
spelling that are considered standard usage (e.g., toward or towards;
adviser also advisor; yer variant of ier). Either spelling is acceptable.
Select the one you prefer and use it consistently throughout a particu-
lar piece of writing. For the spelling of place-names, refer to such au-
thoritative sources as the Columbia Gazetteer of North America, e
Times Atlas of the World, Merriam-Websters Geographical Dictionary,
and the section “Geographical Names” in Merriam-Webster’s Colle-
giate Dictionary, 11th edition. Note that the noun forms listed below
can also be used attributively (e.g., African-American population).
4.2.1 African-American (n.)
4.2.2 Afro-American (n.)
4.2.3 aiming point (n.)
4.2.4 air base (n.)
4.2.5 air chief marshal (n.)
4.2.6 aircrew (n.)
4.2.7 airdrop (n.)
4.2.8 air-drop (v.)
4.2.9 air-droppable (adj.)
4.2.10 aireld (n.)
4.2.11 airframe (n.)
4.2.12 airhead (n.)
4.2.13 airland (v.)
4.2.14 AirLand Battle
4.2.15 air lane (n.)
4.2.16 airli (n., v.)
4.2.17 Airman (US personnel) (n.)
4.2.18 air marshal (n.)
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4.2.19 air-minded (adj.)
4.2.20 air-mindedness (n.)
4.2.21 airmobile (adj.)
4.2.22 airpower (n.). But land power, sea power, space power.
4.2.23 airspace (n.)
4.2.24 airspeed (n.)
4.2.25 air strike (n.)
4.2.26 airstrip (n.)
4.2.27 air vice-marshal (n.)
4.2.28 airworthiness (n.)
4.2.29 airworthy (adj.)
4.2.30 al-Qaeda
4.2.31 anti-. Words formed with the prex anti are usually solid: antiaircra,
antisubmarine. Exceptions include capitalized words (anti-Semitic),
repeated vowels (anti-inammatory), and misleading or dicult-to-
read forms (anti-utopia). See also compound words (4.2.52).
4.2.32 Baath Party
4.2.33 battleeld (n.)
4.2.34 battlefront (n.)
4.2.35 battleground (n.)
4.2.36 battle line (n.)
4.2.37 battlespace (n.)
4.2.38 beddown (n.)
4.2.39 bed down (v.)
4.2.40 bin Laden, Osama
4.2.41 biplane (n.)
4.2.42 Brookings Institution
4.2.43 buildup (n.)
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4.2.44 build up (v.)
4.2.45 by-product (n.)
4.2.46 call sign (n.)
4.2.47 cease-re (n.)
4.2.48 choke point (n.)
4.2.49 citizen-soldier (n.)
4.2.50 code name (n.)
4.2.51 code-name (v.)
4.2.52 compound words. ere are three types of compound words: open
(air brake), solid (aircrew), and hyphenated (air-dry). Compounds
are either permanent (included in the dictionary) or temporary (not
included in the dictionary). Use the dictionary’s spelling of perma-
nent compounds. For help in the spelling of compounds, refer to the
hyphenation guide in the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition (7.85).
When in doubt, use open spelling for a temporary compound (e.g.,
war ghter). See also “e Writing of Compounds” in Webster’s ird
New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged.
Words formed with prexes like non-, pre-, and re- are usually solid:
nonnuclear, prearrange, reenlist.
Words with the sux -like are oen used to form new compounds
and are generally solid: childlike, businesslike, lifelike; but bull-like,
Faulkner-like.
Words combined with the sux -fold are solid unless they are
formed with numerals: threefold, multifold, 20-fold.
A few noun compounds are always open: those beginning with re-
lationship words, such as Mother Nature, fellow traveler, sister ship,
and parent company, and most compounds ending with general, such
as attorney general, adjutant general, and comptroller general (but
governor-general).
Adjective compounds consisting of adverbs ending in -ly plus par-
ticiples or adjectives are le open: poorly written story, rapidly devel-
oping area. Compounds formed from unhyphenated proper names
are le open: Methodist Episcopal Church, Southeast Asian country.
Chemical names are open: carbon monoxide poisoning, hydrochloric
acid bottle. Words naming colors are hyphenated before a noun but
open aer: sea-green gown, grayish-blue car; the gown is sea green,
the car is grayish blue.
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Close up permanent compounds that contain combining forms,
such as “electrocardiogram” and “socioeconomic,” but hyphenate
temporary compounds, such as “network-centric.” See also hyphen-
ated compound words (3.2.8) and “Words Formed with Prexes,” in
the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition, pp. 383–84.
4.2.53 copilot (n.)
4.2.54 cost-eective (adj.)
4.2.55 cost-eectiveness (n.)
4.2.56 counter-. Compound words with the prex counter are usually solid:
counterair, countermeasure, counterblow, counterclockwise. See also
compound words (4.2.52).
4.2.57 countries. Spell out the names of countries in text. See also abbre-
viations (2.0); United States (1.66); US (United States) (2.487); USSR
(Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) (2.508).
4.2.58 court-martial (n., v.), courts-martial (n., plural)
4.2.59 coworker (n.)
4.2.60 crew member (n.)
4.2.61 cross-train (v.)
4.2.62 cyber-. Use the dictionary’s spelling of permanent compounds with
cyber—for example, cyberbully, cyberbullying, cybercafe, cyberciti-
zen, cybercultural, cyberculture, cybernation, cybernaut, cyberneti-
cian, cyberneticist, cybernetics, cyberporn, cyberpunk, cybersecurity,
cybersex, cyberspace, cyberspeak, cybersurfer, and cyberterrorism.
Spell temporary compounds (those not in the dictionary) with open
styling: cyber attack, cyber power, cyber war. See also compound
words (4.2.52).
4.2.63 database (n., v.)
4.2.64 data link (n.)
4.2.65 data-link (v., adj.)
4.2.66 daytime (n.)
4.2.67 D-day (n., adj.)
4.2.68 decision maker (n.)
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4.2.69 decision making (n.)
4.2.70 decision-making (adj.)
4.2.71 de-emphasize (v.)
4.2.72 dive-bomb (v.)
4.2.73 dive-bomber (n.)
4.2.74 downsize (v.)
4.2.75 drawdown (n.)
4.2.76 draw down (v.)
4.2.77 e-mail (n., sing. and pl.; verb); e-mails (n., pl.)
4.2.78 e-mailer (n.)
4.2.79 endgame (n.)
4.2.80 endnotes. See notes (5.5).
4.2.81 end state (n.)
4.2.82 end-state (adj.)
4.2.83 en masse (adv.)
4.2.84 en route (adv., adj.)
4.2.85 ensure. To make sure or certain, guarantee. See also insure (4.2.131).
4.2.86 fact nder (n.)
4.2.87 fact-nding (n., adj.)
4.2.88 fait accompli (n. sing.), faits accomplis (n. pl.) (a thing accomplished
and presumably irreversible).
4.2.89 feedback (n.)
4.2.90 eld marshal (n.)
4.2.91 eld test (n.)
4.2.92 eld-test (v.)
4.2.93 ghter-bomber (n.)
4.2.94 ghter pilot (n.)
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4.2.95 rearm (n.)
4.2.96 rebomb (n., v.)
4.2.97 repower (n.)
4.2.98 rsthand (adj., adv.)
4.2.99 ight crew (n.)
4.2.100 ight line (n.)
4.2.101 ight-line (adj.)
4.2.102 ight path (n.)
4.2.103 ight suit (n.)
4.2.104 ight-test (v.)
4.2.105 followership (n.)
4.2.106 follow-on (n.)
4.2.107 follow-up (n.)
4.2.108 follow up (v.)
4.2.109 footnote (n.). See notes (5.5).
4.2.110 foreword (n.). See also foreword (1.31).
4.2.111 front line (n.)
4.2.112 frontline (adj.)
4.2.113 führer or fuehrer
4.2.114 full time (n.)
4.2.115 full-time (adj., adv.)
4.2.116 Gadha, Muammar
4.2.117 geo-. Most compounds with the prex geo are solid: geoeconomics,
geomagnetic, geonavigation, geopolitics.
4.2.118 g-force (n.)
4.2.119 G suit (n.)
4.2.120 half-. Most adjective compounds with the prex half are hyphen-
ated; a few are closed: half-blooded, half-cocked, half-witted, half-
hearted, halfway. See also compound words (4.2.52); hyphenated
compound words (3.2.8).
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4.2.121 half century (n.)
4.2.122 high-. Most adjective compounds with the prex high are hyphen-
ated before the noun: high-level meeting. Aer the noun, write
them open (but hyphenate aer the noun if doing so will prevent
ambiguity). Some compounds with this prex are closed: highbrow,
highfalutin, highland. See also compound words (4.2.52); hyphen-
ated compound words (3.2.8).
4.2.123 home page (n.)
4.2.124 Hussein, Saddam
4.2.125 ill-. See hyphenated compound words (3.2.8).
4.2.126 inbrief (v.)
4.2.127 inbrieng (n., v.)
4.2.128 in depth (adv.)
4.2.129 in-depth (adj.)
4.2.130 in-process (v.)
4.2.131 insure. is term is oen synonymous with ensure (i.e., to make
certain by taking necessary measures and precautions). Insure also
carries the distinctive sense of providing or obtaining insurance.
See also ensure (4.2.85).
4.2.132 inter-. e prex inter nearly always occurs in solid compounds:
interrelated, interaction, international. Add a hyphen when the
second element is capitalized: inter-American. See also compound
words (4.2.52); hyphenated compound words (3.2.8).
4.2.133 in-theater (adj., adv.)
4.2.134 -keeper. Compound words with the sux keeper are usually writ-
ten solid: bookkeeper, scorekeeper, timekeeper, hotelkeeper; but
tollgate keeper. See also compound words (4.2.52).
4.2.135 Koran. Quran and Qur’an are secondary variants, belonging to
standard usage but occurring less frequently than Koran. Select
one of these three variants and use it consistently throughout your
manuscript.
4.2.136 landmass (n.)
4.2.137 land power (n.)
4.2.138 log in (v.)
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4.2.139 log-in (n.)
4.2.140 logistic or logistical (adj.)
4.2.141 log o (v.)
4.2.142 log-o (n.)
4.2.143 log on (v.)
4.2.144 log-on (n.)
4.2.145 long term (n.)
4.2.146 long-term (adj.)
4.2.147 longtime (adj.)
4.2.148 man-. e prex man occurs in solid, hyphenated, and open com-
pound words: mankind, man-hour(s), man jack. See also com-
pound words (4.2.52); hyphenated compound words (3.2.8); sexist
language (1.56); work hour(s) (4.2.287).
4.2.149 man-hour(s) (n.). See also sexist language (1.56); work hour(s)
(4.2.287).
4.2.150 Marine(s) (US personnel) (n.)
4.2.151 material, matériel (or materiel) (n.) Material refers to any matter
or substance from which something is made. Materiel refers more
specically to apparatus or equipment (e.g., military supplies).
4.2.152 microcomputer (n.)
4.2.153 mid-. Adjective compounds with the prex mid are usually solid
unless the second element begins with a capital letter: midair colli-
sion, mid-Atlantic tempest. Noun compounds with this prex are
usually solid; if the second word is a proper noun, the compound
may be either open or hyphenated: midsummer, mid Atlantic, mid-
Victorian, mid-1944 (all of the following are acceptable: mid- to
late 1944, mid-to-late 1944, mid to late 1944). See also compound
words (4.2.52); hyphenated compound words (3.2.8).
4.2.154 militia (sing.), militias (pl.)
4.2.155 Milošević, Slobodan
4.2.156 mind-set (n.)
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4.2.157 minelayer (n.)
4.2.158 mine laying (n.)
4.2.159 mine-laying (adj.)
4.2.160 minesweeper (n.)
4.2.161 minesweeping (n., v.)
4.2.162 missileman (n.)
4.2.163 multi-. Words with the prex multi are usually solid: multibreak,
multicylinder, multiengine. See also compound words (4.2.52).
4.2.164 must-read (n.)
4.2.165 nation-state (n.)
4.2.166 near real time (n.)
4.2.167 near-real-time (adj.)
4.2.168 near term (n.)
4.2.169 near-term (adj.)
4.2.170 network-centric (adj.). See also compound words (4.2.52).
4.2.171 nighttime (n.)
4.2.172 non-. Words with the prefix non are usually solid: nonviolent,
nonoperating, nonnegotiable, nonparty. But non-English-speaking
world. See also compound words (4.2.52).
4.2.173 o-line (adj., adv.)
4.2.174 o-load (v.)
4.2.175 onboard (adj.). An onboard computer.
4.2.176 on board (adv.). Aboard. He is on board the ship.
4.2.177 ongoing (adj.)
4.2.178 online (adj., adv.)
4.2.179 onload (v.)
4.2.180 on-station (adj.)
4.2.181 on station (adv.)
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4.2.182 outbrief (v.)
4.2.183 outbrieng (n., v.)
4.2.184 out-process (v.)
4.2.185 over-. Compound words with the prex over are usually solid:
overage, overproduction, overeager, override. See also compound
words (4.2.52).
4.2.186 part-time (adj., adv.)
4.2.187 part-timer (n.)
4.2.188 peacekeeper (n.)
4.2.189 peacekeeping (n.)
4.2.190 peacemaker (n.)
4.2.191 peacemaking (n.)
4.2.192 peacetime (n.)
4.2.193 per annum (adv.)
4.2.194 per capita (adv., adj.)
4.2.195 Philippines
4.2.196 policy maker (n.)
4.2.197 policy making (n.)
4.2.198 policy-making (adj.)
4.2.199 post-. Compound words with the prex post are usually solid: postwar,
postaxial, postmortem, but post-cold-war world or post–Cold War
world. See also compound words (4.2.52).
4.2.200 pre-. Compound words with the prex pre are usually solid: preex-
isting, predetermined, prejudge, preempt. But pre-latency-period
development. See also compound words (4.2.52).
4.2.201 pro-. Compound words with the prex pro are usually solid:
progovernment, pronuclear. See also compound words (4.2.52).
4.2.202 proactive (adj.)
4.2.203 proactively (adv.)
4.2.204 problem solver (n.)
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4.2.205 problem solving (n.)
4.2.206 problem-solving (adj.)
4.2.207 re-. Compound words with the prex re are usually solid: reedit,
reeducate, reelect, reenlist, reequip, reexamine, reunify. See also
compound words (4.2.52).
4.2.208 reachback (n.)
4.2.209 real time (n.)
4.2.210 real-time (adj.)
4.2.211 real-world (adj.)
4.2.212 risk taking (n.)
4.2.213 risk-taking (adj.)
4.2.214 road map (n.)
4.2.215 Sailor (US personnel)
4.2.216 sea-lane (n.)
4.2.217 seali (n., v.)
4.2.218 sea power (n.)
4.2.219 self-. Most self- compounds are hyphenated: self-reliant, self-
sustaining, but seless, selfsame. See also hyphenated compound
words (3.2.8).
4.2.220 semi-. Compound words with the prex semi are usually spelled
solid: seminal, semiocial, but semi-indirect. See also compound
words (4.2.52).
4.2.221 semiannual. See also 1.55.
4.2.222 sharia. Islamic law based on the Koran. Sharia, shariah, and shari’ah
are secondary variants, belonging to standard usage but occurring
less frequently than sharia. Select one of these four variants and use
it consistently throughout your manuscript. (All variants are oen
capitalized.)
4.2.223 Shiite
4.2.224 short-range (adj.)
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4.2.225 short term (n.)
4.2.226 short-term (adj.)
4.2.227 Soldier (US personnel)
4.2.228 space-. Compounds with this term are solid, open, and hyphen-
ated: spaceman, spaceship, spaceight, spacewalk (v.), space suit,
space station, space walk (n.), space age, space power, space shuttle,
space-age (adj.), space-time. See also compound words (4.2.52);
hyphenated compound words (3.2.8).
4.2.229 space li (n.)
4.2.230 space-li (v., adj.)
4.2.231 space power
4.2.232 standby (n., adj., adv.)
4.2.233 stand by (v.)
4.2.234 stando (n.)
4.2.235 stand o (v.)
4.2.236 state of the art (n.)
4.2.237 state-of-the-art (adj.)
4.2.238 sub-. Compound words with the prex sub are usually written sol-
id: subcommittee, subcontract, substandard, but sub-Saharan Af-
rica. See also compound words (4.2.52).
4.2.239 superpower (n.)
4.2.240 takeo (n.)
4.2.241 take o (v.)
4.2.242 takeover (n.)
4.2.243 take over (v.)
4.2.244 test-y (v.)
4.2.245 theater, theatre. Shortened form of theater of operations or theater
of war. Lowercase, as in European theater. Either spelling is stan-
dard; choose one and use it consistently.
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4.2.246 third-. Compound words with this term occur in all three stylings:
third base (n.), third baseman (n.), third class (n.), third-class (adj.),
third degree (n.), third-degree (adj.), third grader, thirdhand (adj.,
adv.). See also compound words (4.2.52); hyphenated compound
words (3.2.8).
4.2.247 trans-. Words formed with the prex trans are generally closed:
transship, transcontinental, transoceanic. Compounds whose sec-
ond element is a capitalized word are hyphenated: trans-America,
but transatlantic. See also compound words (4.2.52); hyphenated
compound words (3.2.8).
4.2.248 tri-. Compound words with the prex tri are usually closed: tri-
color, trilingual, tristate. See also compound words (4.2.52).
4.2.249 U-boat
4.2.250 ultra-. Most compounds with the prex ultra are solid: ultramod-
ern, ultrasonic, but ultra-atomic, ultra-German. See also com-
pound words (4.2.52); hyphenated compound words (3.2.8).
4.2.251 un-. Most compounds with the prex un are solid: unbiased, un-
solved, unused. See also compound words (4.2.52).
4.2.252 under-. Most compounds with this term are solid: underbid, un-
derdevelop, underestimate, underground, undersea, undersecre-
tary, underreport. See also compound words (4.2.52).
4.2.253 underway (adj.)
4.2.254 under way (adv.)
4.2.255 vice-. Compounds with this term can be open, solid, or hyphen-
ated: vice admiral, vice-chairman, vice-chancellor, vice-chief,
vice-commander, vice-consul, vice-marshal, vice-minister, vice
president, viceroy, vice squad. Hyphenate if the word is not in the
dictionary. See also compound words (4.2.52); hyphenated com-
pound words (3.2.8).
4.2.256 vice versa (adv.)
4.2.257 Vietcong (n., sing. and pl.)
4.2.258 Vietminh (n., sing. and pl.)
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4.2.259 walk-. Most compounds with this term are either hyphenated or sol-
id: walk-on (n.), walkout (n.), walkover (n.), walk-up (n.). See also
compound words (4.2.52); hyphenated compound words (3.2.8).
4.2.260 war-. Compounds with this term occur in all three stylings: war
chest, war power, war room, war zone, warlike, warpath, warplane,
warship, wartime, war-game (v.). See also compound words
(4.2.52); hyphenated compound words (3.2.8).
4.2.261 war ghter (n.)
4.2.262 war ghting (n.)
4.2.263 war-ghting (adj.)
4.2.264 war game (n.)
4.2.265 war-game (v.) (e.g., to war-game an invasion)
4.2.266 war gamer (n.)
4.2.267 war gaming (n.)
4.2.268 war-gaming (adj.)
4.2.269 warhead (n.)
4.2.270 war making (n.)
4.2.271 war-making (adj.)
4.2.272 warplane (n.)
4.2.273 warship (n.)
4.2.274 wartime (n.)
4.2.275 wavelength(s) (n.)
4.2.276 well-. Most compounds formed with well are either hyphenated or
solid: well-being (n.), well-dened (adj.), well-grounded (adj.), well-
intentioned (adj.), well-known (adj.), well-read (adj.), well-spoken
(adj.), well-timed (adj.), wellborn (adj.), wellness (n.). Generally, you
should hyphenate compounds with well before the noun: A well-
known man came to my house. Hyphenate if another adverb modi-
es the compound as a whole: very well-read child. Do not hyphenate
when the compound follows the word it modies: She is well known
for her recipes. See also hyphenated compound words (3.2.8).
4.2.277 weltanschauung (n., oen capitalized). Worldview.
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4.2.278 wide-. Compounds beginning with this term occur in all three stylings:
wide receiver (n.), wideawake (n.), widemouthed (adj.), widespread
(adj.), wide-awake (adj.), wide-eyed (adj.), wide-spreading (adj.). See
also compound words (4.2.52); hyphenated compound words (3.2.8).
4.2.279 -wide. Compounds ending in this term are written solid unless
they are long and cumbersome (i.e., if the sux follows most words
of three or more syllables) or unless they include a proper noun:
countrywide, nationwide, servicewide, statewide, theaterwide,
worldwide, but university-wide, Chicago-wide, Air Force–wide.
e hyphenated forms remain hyphenated both before and aer
the words they modify: e rule applied university-wide. See also
compound words (4.2.52); hyphenated compound words (3.2.8).
4.2.280 wingspan (n.)
4.2.281 wiretap (n., v.)
4.2.282 wiretapper (n.)
4.2.283 work-. Compounds with this term occur in all three stylings: work
ethic, workday, work-up (n.). See also compound words (4.2.52);
hyphenated compound words (3.2.8).
4.2.284 work-around (n.)
4.2.285 work around (v.)
4.2.286 workforce (n.)
4.2.287 work hour(s) (n.). See also man-hour(s) (4.2.149).
4.2.288 workload (n.)
4.2.289 worldview (n.). See also weltanschauung (4.2.277).
4.2.290 worldwide (adj., adv.)
4.2.291 year-. Compounds beginning with this term occur in all three styl-
ings: year of grace, yearbook, year-end. See also compound words
(4.2.52); hyphenated compound words (3.2.8).
4.2.292 zero (n. sing.), zeros (n. pl.), also zeroes (standard but used less
frequently) (n. pl.). See also zero, zeros (1.82).
4.2.293 zero hour (n.)
4.2.294 zero-sum (adj.)
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4.3 Numbers
Spell out whole numbers zero through nine. Use numerals for
those greater than nine:
Katie read three books in two months.
e convention center can hold 5,000 people.
You may use numerals followed by million, billion, and so forth, to
express large numbers:
China has more than one (or 1) billion people.
By the end of the year, the corporation was in debt by $2.3 million.
An exception to the general rule applies if several numbers appear
in the same sentence, some normally spelled out and some normally
represented by numerals. For the sake of consistency, if you must use
numerals for one of the numbers, use numerals for all of them. In
the rst sentence, 3 and 6 would usually be spelled out. In the second
sentence, 4 would normally be spelled out:
By late summer 2012, the rebels’ equipment probably included 15–25
ZU-23s, 3–6 57 mm towed air defense artillery guns (or others), and
15–30 SA-7 man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS).
Alex had 4 g trees and 12 rose bushes in his backyard.
However, both numerals and spelled-out numbers may appear to-
gether if they fall into dierent categories, as in the next example,
which includes two sets of parallel numbers. Again, if you must use
numerals for one of the numbers in a set, use numerals for all in that
set. In the following sentence, 7 and 9 would normally be spelled out:
Amandas Girl Scout troop held its annual cookie sale: two girls sold
7 boxes, ve sold 9, and eight sold 15.
If you must use numerals for one of the numbers in the other set, use
numerals for all in that set. e numbers 2 and 5 would normally be
spelled out:
Amandas Girl Scout troop held its annual cookie sale: 2 girls sold 7
boxes, 5 sold 9, and 10 sold 15.
e general rule for spelling numbers also applies to ordinal num-
bers. Either use d for both second and third or use nd and rd for second
and third, respectively (placed on the line rather than written as super-
scripts). Choose one style and use it consistently.
Sergeant Adams conducted the 92d through 103d hours of the drill.
e 122nd and 123rd days of the strike were marked by renewed violence.
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Spell out any number that starts a sentence:
Twelve people applied for the job.
Apply to adjective modiers the rules for spelling out whole num-
bers zero through nine and for expressing large numbers:
four-mile hike 11-mile hike
ve-day week 40-hour week
ve-ton truck 9,000-ton ship
two (or 2)-million-member union 10-million-vote margin
four-year-old boy zero-based budgeting
In mathematical, statistical, technical, or scientic text, express
physical quantities such as distances, lengths, areas, volumes, pres-
sures, and so forth, in numerals:
60 miles 110 volts
15 yards 10 tons
40 acres 3 meters
3 1/3 cubic feet 45 pounds
In ordinary text, apply the basic rule for the spelling of numbers:
Doris lost ve pounds in a week.
Johns car can barely go 60 miles an hour.
Spell out common fractions in text:
More than one-third of the class failed the exam.
My brothers and I live within three and one-half miles of each other.
Use numerals to express a combination of mixed numbers and
whole numbers:
He typed the report on 8½-by-11-inch paper.
If you abbreviate a unit of measure, express the quantity with a
numeral:
9 mi. 35 mm
30 lb. 20 km
For two or more quantities, the symbol or abbreviation is repeat-
ed if it is closed up to the number, but not if it is separated from the
number:
35%–50% 2 x 5 cm
Use numerals with symbols:
5½" 8˚ F
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Use numerals for decimal fractions:
He multiplied the number by 3.17.
In text, use the word percent preceded by numerals; in a table or
chart, or in scientic or statistical text, you may use the symbol %.
1 percent
50 percent
Spell out or use numerals for amounts of money in US currency
in accordance with the basic rule. If you spell out the number, spell
out the unit of currency; if you use numerals, use the symbols $ or ¢:
e commission raised the tax four cents.
e club raised a total of $425.
Use a dollar sign, numerals, and spelled-out units of millions or
billions to express large sums of money:
Jim signed with the Atlanta Falcons for $3 million.
Use numerals for fractional amounts over one dollar, like other
decimal fractions. When you use whole-dollar amounts in the same
context with fractional amounts, set the whole-dollar amounts with
zeros aer the decimal point:
e music store sold CDs for $12.00 to $15.98.
In text, indicate inclusive years as follows: 1900–1901; 2007–8;
1968–72 or from 1968 to 1972 (never from 1968–72). If you are com-
posing a book title that includes dates, repeat all digits: My High
School Incarceration, 1965–1968. However, do not alter a published
title that includes abbreviated dates: Clarksons Antagonism, 1946–51.
In chapter titles, subheadings, and captions, use the abbreviated form
(in chapter 4, “From Meeting to Marriage, 1932–38”).
Spell out references to particular centuries; spell out or use numer-
als and apostrophes for references to decades:
the twentieth century
during the sixties and seventies
the ’60s and ’70s
If you identify decades by their century, use numerals:
the 1880s and 1890s
Spell out times of day in even, half, and quarter hours:
We went to the theater at a quarter aer seven.
e service starts at ve oclock.
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Use numerals to emphasize an exact time:
e program is televised at 8:35 in the morning.
If you use the 24-hour system, do not punctuate between the hours
and minutes:
e oce opens at 0815.
Our duty hours are from 0730 to 1100 and from 1130 to 1600.
Except in the 24-hour system, do not use numerals to indicate
noon or midnight (e.g., the ambiguous 12:00 p.m.).
ad ate lunch at noon.
Annie regularly stays up past midnight.
Use the following style for inclusive numbers:
First Number Second Number Examples
Less than 100 Use all digits 3–10, 71–72, 96–117
100 or multiple of 100 Use all digits 100–104, 600–613,
2100–2123
101 through 109 Use changed part 107–8, 505–17,
(in multiples of 100) only, omitting 2002–6
unneeded zeros
110 through 199 Use two digits, or 321–25, 415–32,
(in multiples of 100) more if needed 1536–38, 1496–504,
14325–28,
11564–78,
13792–803
To avoid ambiguity, do not condense inclusive Roman numerals:
cvi–cix
Use an initial ordinal number (spelled out if ninth or less) to desig-
nate particular dynasties, governments, and governing bodies:
First Continental Congress 98th Congress
ird Reich 18th Dynasty
Sixth International Fih Republic
Use ordinal numbers to designate political divisions. e rule for
spelling out numbers applies:
Fih Congressional District
12th Precinct
Second Election District
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Numbers
Form the plurals of spelled-out numbers just as you would form
the plurals of other nouns; add s (no apostrophe) to form the plurals
of numerals:
Hickocks hand contained two pairs: aces and eights.
e grades for the class included six 98s and three 100s; the rest were
below 89.
In numerals of 1,000 or more (except page numbers), use a comma
to set o groups of three digits, counting from the right:
2,000 34,000
In spelled-out fractional numbers, connect the numerator and the
denominator with a hyphen unless either contains a hyphen:
three-fourths
six and seven-eighths
four and one-half years
seven and twenty-one thirty-seconds
4.3.1 air force (numbered). See 4.3.19.
4.3.2 caliber (of weapons). Use whole numbers or decimals, depending
on the type of weapon: .38-caliber revolver, Colt .45, 9 mm automatic
(no hyphen between a numeral and an abbreviation), 105 mm howit-
zer, 12-gauge shotgun.
4.3.3 centuries and decades. Spell out (in lowercase letters) references to
particular centuries: eighth century, twentieth century. Use numerals
if decades are identied by their century: the 1880s and 1890s. See
also numbers (4.3).
4.3.4 chapter (numbers). Use Arabic numerals for chapter numbers, even
if the chapter numbers in the work cited are spelled out or in Roman
numerals: chapter 4. e same principle holds true for other divisions
of a book: part 1, section 3, book 7, volume 2.
4.3.5 currency. See money (4.3.18); numbers (4.3).
4.3.6 dates. Write exact dates in the sequence day-month-year, without
commas. Spell out the month, use numerals for the day, and use a
four-digit year. When you use only the month and year, no commas
are necessary.
FDR referred to 7 December 1941 as a day that would live in infamy.
e date March 2003 was special to her.
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You may use 9/11 when referring to the terrorist attacks of 11 Sep-
tember 2001. For inclusive numbers, see 4.3.
4.3.7 decades. Use numerals if decades are identied by their century: the
1880s and 1890s. Spell out or use numerals and apostrophes for par-
ticular decades: the eighties, the ’80s. See also numbers (4.3).
4.3.8 dollars. See money (4.3.18); numbers (4.3).
4.3.9 Earth satellites. Use Arabic numerals in designations of articial sat-
ellites: Skylab 2, Voyager 2. Earlier spacecra used Roman numer-
als: Gemini II. Names of specic spacecra and articial satellites are
italicized. See also spacecra (4.4.21).
4.3.10 gures. See numbers (4.3) or illustrations (1.36), as appropriate.
4.3.11 fractions. See numbers (4.3).
4.3.12 highway (numbered). Use Arabic numerals to designate state, fed-
eral, and interstate highways: Interstate 85, Alabama 41.
4.3.13 hundreds. See numbers (4.3).
4.3.14 Mach 2 (etc.). Use numerals with “Mach.
4.3.15 measurements. Numerals precede abbreviations for units of measure:
3 mi. 50 lb.
55 mph 35 mm lm
See also abbreviations (2.0); hyphenated compound words (3.2.8);
numbers (4.3).
4.3.16 military time. Measured in hours numbered 0 to 23 (e.g., 0100, 0800,
1600, 2300), from one midnight to the next; midnight is 0000, not
2400. No internal punctuation. See also numbers (4.3).
4.3.17 military units. Air Force units. Use Arabic numerals to designate
units up to and including wings. Spell out the names of numbered air
forces:
74th Air Control Squadron
9th Air Expeditionary Group
1st Fighter Wing
Twenty-ird Air Force
Army units. Use Arabic numerals to designate units up to and in-
cluding divisions. Write corps names with Roman numerals, and des-
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ignate Army groups with Arabic numerals. Spell out the names of
numbered armies:
256th Infantry Brigade
10th Mountain Division
XVIII Airborne Corps
599th Transportation Group
First US Army
Navy units. Use Arabic numerals to designate the number of task
forces; spell out eet numbers:
Task Force 58
Fih Fleet
Marine Corps units. Use the same designations as Army units:
1st Tank Battalion
2nd Marine Division
3rd Marine Logistics Group
II Marine Expeditionary Force
If you abbreviate the names of military units, use cardinal rather
than ordinal numbers with the abbreviations: 56th Airli Squadron /
56 AS; 182nd Fighter Squadron / 182 FS; 163rd Air Refueling Group
/ 163 ARG; 97th Air Mobility Wing / 97 AMW.
For writing ordinal numbers (e.g., 2d or 2nd), see 4.3.
4.3.18 money. Use a dollar sign, numerals, and spelled-out units of millions
or billions to express large sums of money. See also numbers (4.3).
Both companies agreed on a price of $2 million.
4.3.19 numbered air force. Spell out names of numbered air forces: Eighth
Air Force, Twenty-ird Air Force. Use numerals for a smaller unit:
15th Air Group. See also military units (4.3.17).
4.3.20 percent. Always spell out percent in humanistic text, and precede it
with Arabic numerals: a 3 percent increase. You may use the % symbol
in tables and in scientic or statistical text. See also numbers (4.3).
4.3.21 quantities. See measurements (4.3.15); numbers (4.3).
4.3.22 satellites. See Earth satellites (4.3.9).
4.3.23 temperature. See numbers (4.3).
4.3.24 time. See military time (4.3.16); numbers (4.3).
4.3.25 units of measure. See measurements (4.3.15).
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4.3.26 weights and measurements. See measurements (4.3.15); numbers (4.3).
4.3.27 year. Use numerals to designate specic years unless the sentence be-
gins with the year:
Nineteen forty-ve was an eventful year.
World War II ended in 1945.
In informal contexts, you may abbreviate the full number of a par-
ticular year: the spirit of ’76.
If you use the month with the year, do not use internal punctuation:
e study began in May 1979. See also dates (4.3.6); numbers (4.3).
4.3.28 zero, zeros (also zeroes [standard but used less frequently]). Use a
0 in tables to denote zero amount instead of using a dash or leaving
the space blank.
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Italics
4.4 Italics
Italicize titles and subtitles of published books, periodicals, pam-
phlets, reports, brochures, manuals, proceedings and collections,
newspapers, and sections of newspapers published separately, as well
as abbreviations of those publications (e Art of War, e United
States Strategic Bombing Survey, USSBS, Air and Space Power Journal,
ASPJ, etc.). If you are marking a manuscript by hand, use underlining
to indicate italics.
Italicize titles of motion pictures, continuing television and radio
series, long poems and musical compositions, plays, and computer/
video games. Put titles of TV shows, songs, and radio programs in ro-
man type and enclose them in quotation marks. Put general titles of
websites in roman without quotation marks. Italicize titles of websites
that are counterparts of or equivalent to printed publications (e.g.,
books, journals, etc.). Enclose titled sections of websites in quotation
marks. Italicize the titles of blogs.
Casablanca Handels Messiah
public television’ s Masterpiece eatre e Andy Grith Show
public radio’ s All ings Considered “In the Mood”
Paradise Lost radios “Christmas ’99 at the
Tomb Raider: Chronicles Kennedy Center
Wikipedia Air Force Magazine (website)
GlobalSecurity Library of Congress Online Catalog
e Anomalys Fortress (blog) Alabamalama (blog)
CNN (website [not CNN.com])
Operation Odyssey Dawn” (section of GlobalSecurity website)
“Daily Report” (section of Air Force Magazine website)
If you use the names of newspapers, titles of books, or other itali-
cized names in the plural, set the plural inection in roman type:
ere were ve Journals and two Tribunes on the shelf.
e font for punctuation should be the same as that of the sur-
rounding text unless the punctuation is part of a title.
Smith played the title role in Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear; aer
his nal performance, he announced his retirement. [the commas
and the semicolon aer the names of the plays are in roman]
A History of the United States Air Force, 1907–1957 [the comma is in
italics]
Many editors admire Wired Style: it is both elegant and easy to use.
[the colon is in roman]
An Apache Life-Way: e Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions
of the Chiricahua Indians [the colon and the commas are in italics]
What is meant by random selection? [the question mark is in roman]
She is the author of Whats Next? [the question mark is in italics (it is
part of the title)]
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For light entertainment, he reads King Lear! [the exclamation point
is in roman]
e manual Online! is always at my elbow. [the exclamation point is
in italics (it is part of the title)]
When a proper name is set in italics, the possessive ending (in-
cluding the apostrophe) should be in roman:
the Pueblos captain
e font for parentheses and brackets should be the same as that
of the surrounding text:
e Asian long-horned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) attacks
maples. [the parentheses are in roman]
e letter stated that my check had been “recieved [sic] with thanks.
[the brackets are in roman]
Parentheses or brackets enclosing text on a line by itself appear in
the same font as the text:
[To be concluded] [the brackets are in italics]
Italicize the proper names of specic ships and submarines but not
the accompanying abbreviations (e.g., USS, SS, HMS): HMS Shan-
non, SS United States, CSS Alabama, Kiev-class aircra carrier. Capi-
talize but do not italicize the make of aircra and ships and the names
of space programs: Boeing 707, Project Apollo, ICBM, U-boat, DC-3.
Do not italicize titles of forms or put them in quotation marks.
Instead, capitalize the main words: AF Form 673, Air Force Publica-
tion / Form Action Request; AU Form 1071, Inspection/Maintenance
Record.
Italicize terms singled out as terms and words referred to as words
(see also quotation marks [3.2.14]):
e standard meaning of the term leist is an adherent of the le
wing of a party or movement.
Gladys cringed whenever anyone said ain’t.
Italicize terms from languages other than English: Leutnant, sic
transit gloria mundi, aux armes. However, if foreign terms have be-
come familiar enough to be included in a standard English diction-
ary, do not italicize them: weltschmerz, schadenfreude, ad hoc, n de
siècle, blitzkrieg, détente, déjà vu, perestroika, raison dêtre, vis-à-vis.
Isolated foreign proper nouns are not italicized, even when cited
as foreign terms:
Moscow (in Russian, Mockba) has been the capital of the Russian
national state since the late fourteenth century.
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In text, translations of unpublished titles appear in parentheses
with headline-style capitalization set in roman; use italics for pub-
lished titles:
Leonardo Fioravantis Compendio de i secreti rationali (Compendium
of Rational Secrets) became a best-seller.
Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of ings Past)
was the subject of her dissertation.
Use italics for the names of legal cases mentioned in text (includ-
ing the abbreviation “v.” [versus]). Use roman for such names when
they appear in notes, but italicize shortened forms in subsequent ci-
tations:
Have you ever read Brown v. Board of Education?
3. Brown v. Board of Education, 347 US Reports, 17 May 1954.
7. Brown. [shortened form]
Italicize the shortened case name in subsequent references in the text:
Miranda or the Miranda case
You may occasionally use italics (not boldface or all caps) to em-
phasize a point:
Eective intelligence is essential to military operations.
is device should be used sparingly. If your text is well written, the
reader should have no problem determining what you consider im-
portant. See also emphasis (4.4.4).
If a term that normally appears in italics, such as the name of an
aircra or a ship, a foreign word, and so forth, is part of an italicized
title (or other text in italics), set it in roman (reverse italics). If an
italicized title appears within a title (or other text in italics), retain the
italics and enclose it in quotation marks.
History Wars: e Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past
Decoding Clausewitz: A New Approach to “On War”
4.4.1 aircra. Do not italicize the class designation and class name of air-
cra: F-22 Raptor, B-2 Spirit, Boeing 747. Italicize the name of a par-
ticular aircra: Spirit of St. Louis, Enola Gay. See also italics (4.4).
4.4.2 doctrine publications, instructions, manuals, pamphlets, and pol-
icy directives. Italicize the title of the publication: Air Force Doctrine
Document (AFDD) 2, Operations and Organization (subsequent tex-
tual reference: AFDD 2); Air Force Instruction (AFI) 90-201, Inspec-
tor General Activities (subsequent textual reference: AFI 90-201); Air
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Force Manual (AFMAN) 37-104, Managing Information to Support
the Air Force Mission (subsequent textual reference: AFMAN 37-104);
Army Field Manual (FM) 27-10, e Law of Land Warfare (subse-
quent textual reference: FM 27-10); Air Force Pamphlet (AFPAM)
36-106, Supervisor’s Records (subsequent textual reference: AFPAM
36-106); Air Force Policy Directive (AFPD) 36-4, Air Force Civilian
Training, Education, and Development (subsequent textual reference:
AFPD 36-4).
4.4.3 Earth satellites. Specic names of spacecra and articial satellites
are italicized: Skylab 2, Voyager 2, Gemini II.
4.4.4 emphasis. If you use italics to emphasize a word or words in a quota-
tion, indicate that you have done so by adding a phrase such as “em-
phasis added” or “italics added” in parentheses following the quota-
tion, as in this block quotation:
Today we know that in wartime, even in a conventional war of lim-
ited duration, the two superpowers would ght a battle of attrition in
space until one side or the other had wrested control. And the winner
would use the surviving space system to decide the contests on land and
sea (emphasis added).
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Similarly, you may use an appropriate phrase to show that an itali-
cized part of a quotation is not your doing but appears in the original,
as in this run-in quotation:
Gen Muir S. Fairchild noted that “each nation diers from all other
nations, not only in its degree of vulnerability to air attack, but also in
the kind of vulnerability” (emphasis in original).
21
In a quotation with a mixture of original and added italics, use
bracketed phrases immediately following the italicized passages to
dierentiate between them, as in this block quotation:
Whether the means of protecting satellites will be adequate to ensure
the survivability [emphasis added] of particular space-based BMD
systems will depend in part on the kinds of systems deployed and
in part on future Soviet antisatellite capabilities. Insucient informa-
tion is now available to resolve the survivability question [emphasis in
original].
24
4.4.5 epigraph. Do not enclose an epigraph in quotation marks. Set it in
italics in the same sized type as the text or in roman a size smaller.
I will cash any check my ACCE writes.
—Lt Gen Mike Hostage
COMUSAFCENT
See also 1.29.
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Italics
4.4.6 foreign terms. See italics (4.4).
4.4.7 forms (titles of). See italics (4.4).
4.4.8 instructions. See doctrine documents, instructions, manuals, pam-
phlets, and policy directives (4.4.2).
4.4.9 journals. Capitalize all main words of the title of a journal, and itali-
cize both the full title and its abbreviation: Air and Space Power Jour-
nal, ASPJ.
4.4.10 legal cases. See italics (4.4).
4.4.11 Luwae. No italics.
4.4.12 magazines. See italics (4.4); journals (4.4.9).
4.4.13 manuals. See doctrine documents, instructions, manuals, pamphlets,
and policy directives (4.4.2).
4.4.14 newspapers. Italicize the names of newspapers: Christian Science
Monitor, Chicago Sun-Times. In text, lowercase the and set it in roman
type: John read the Wall Street Journal religiously. Omit the denite
article in note references to newspapers.
4.4.15 pamphlets. See doctrine documents, instructions, manuals, pam-
phlets, and policy directives (4.4.2).
4.4.16 periodicals. See italics (4.4); journals (4.4.9).
4.4.17 policy directives. See doctrine documents, instructions, manuals,
pamphlets, and policy directives (4.4.2).
4.4.18 see, see also. Italicize these terms in an index but not in documenta-
tion (e.g., endnotes). Capitalize only when they begin a sentence.
4.4.19 ships, names of. See italics (4.4).
4.4.20 sic (so; thus; in this manner). Use this term, italicized and bracketed,
to indicate misspelling or improper usage in original text:
e newscaster announced that “the pilot got out of his plane and laid
[sic] down on the ground aer his harrowing ight.
See also italics (4.4).
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Italics
4.4.21 spacecra. Italicize specic names of spacecra and articial satel-
lites: Gemini II, Apollo 11. Also italicize names of particular space
vehicles or components: Eagle (Apollo 11 lunar module), Columbia
(Apollo 11 command module or space shuttle), and Friendship 7
(Alan Shepards Mercury capsule).
4.4.22 Spetsnaz. No italics.
4.4.23 words as words. Place words referred to as words in either italics or quo-
tation marks: Tom wasnt sure whether airpower was one word or two.
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Display Dots
4.5 Display Dots
Display dots are typographical devices used to emphasize specic
items; they are not organizational devices used to subordinate textual
elements. Use them when one item is no more important than the
others or when the items do not show a sequence. Entries may be
either complete or incomplete sentences but should be syntactically
parallel and no longer than two or three sentences. Since display dots
are used primarily for emphasis, use them sparingly and keep the in-
formation as short as possible. Indent each entry, and align run-over
lines with the rst word aer the dot.
A special court-martial tries intermediate, noncapital oenses. It may be
convened by any of the following:
•  Any person who may convene a general court-martial.
•  A commander empowered by the secretary of the Air Force un-
less otherwise directed.
•  A commander of a wing, group, or separate squadron of the Air 
Force unless otherwise directed.
Specically, the Oce of Antiterrorism is charged with the following
measures:
•  Helping the newly formed Air Force Antiterrorism Council keep 
pace with related developments. Members of the council include
senior ocers of various deputy and assistant chiefs of sta, the
Oce of Security Police, the Oce of the Judge Advocate Gen-
eral, and other agencies.
•  Developing  policy  and  guidance  concerning  security  measures 
and precautions.
•  Monitoring terrorist trends and providing information on such 
matters to interested agencies and commands.
e Camp David accords provide a process to facilitate the implementation 
of Resolution 242:
•  a ve-year transitional period for the West Bank and Gaza, pro-
viding full autonomy to the inhabitants;
•  negotiations on the nal status of the West Bank and Gaza and on 
a peace treaty between Jordan and Israel, to begin no later than
three years into the transitional period;
•  a framework for peace negotiations between Israel and Egypt; and
•  principles for peace treaties between Israel and its other neigh-
boring states.
e following agencies have been established:
134 4.0 MECHANICS
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•  e Cryptologic-Equipment Engineering-Data Support Center
•  e Nuclear-Ordnance Engineering-Data Support Center
•  e Air and Space Guidance and Metrological Engineering-Data 
Support Center
•  e Communications-Electronics Engineering-Data Support Center
In classied reports, material emphasized by display dots is con-
sidered part of the paragraph that introduced it, not as a separate
paragraph.
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5.0 Documentation (is guide uses the notes and bibliography
system rather than the author-date reference system.)
5.1 bibliography. A bibliography is a list of books, articles, and other
works used in preparing a manuscript. It immediately precedes the
index and may be arranged alphabetically or divided into the kinds of
materials used (books, theses and papers, government publications,
periodicals, etc.) (especially in a lengthy bibliography). Whatever the
arrangement, do not list any source more than once. It may include
only selected titles that may or may not be annotated.
You may annotate the bibliography to direct the reader to other
works or to briey explain the contents, relevance, or value of specic
sections of the book.
Invert the names of authors (i.e., last name rst) and separate the
various components of information with periods.
An alphabetical list is the most common type of bibliography. Ar-
range all sources alphabetically by the last names of the authors, in a
single list. When no author is given, use the rst word of the title as
the key word for alphabetizing. If a publication issued by an organiza-
tion carries no authors name, use the name of the organization as the
author, even if the organization is also the publisher. Note the follow-
ing points from the Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.) regarding the
alphabetizing of bibliography entries (Chicago section cited in paren-
theses). Otherwise, the principles for alphabetizing an index (see 1.37
of this guide) also apply to a bibliography.
(14.61) A single-author entry precedes a multiauthor entry begin-
ning with the same name. Only the name of the rst author is in-
verted.
Kogan, Herman. e First Century: e Chicago Bar Association,
1874–1974. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1974.
Kogan, Herman, and Lloyd Wendt. Chicago: A Pictorial History. New
York: Dutton, 1958.
(14.62) Successive entries by two or more authors in which only
the rst authors name is the same are alphabetized according to the
coauthors’ last names.
Brooks, Daniel R., and Deborah A. McLennan. e Nature of Diver-
sity: An Evolutionary Voyage of Discovery. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2002.
Brooks, Daniel R., and E. O. Wiley. Evolution as Entropy. 2nd ed. Chi-
cago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
(14.67) Titles by the same author are normally listed alphabetical-
ly. Rather than repeat the author’s name in an immediately following
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entry, use a three-em dash. An initial the, a, or an is ignored in the
alphabetizing. Note that all works by the same person (or by the same
persons in the same order)—whether that person is editor, author,
translator, or compiler—appear together, regardless of the added ab-
breviation.
Ginger, Ray. e Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1949.
——— . Six Days or Forever? Tennessee v. John omas Scopes. Chi-
cago: Quadrangle Books, 1969.
Mulvany, Nancy C. “Copyright for Indexes, Revisited.ASI Newsletter
107 (November–December 1991): 11–13.
——— , ed. Indexing, Providing Access to Information—Looking
Back, Looking Ahead: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the
American Society of Indexers. Port Aransas, TX: American Society
of Indexers, 1993.
——— . “Soware Tools for Indexing: What We Need.Indexer 17
(October 1990): 108–13.
e following are examples of citations in bibliographic format:
AFPD 36-4. Air Force Civilian Training, Education, and Development,
12 February 2004.
Clausewitz, Carl von. On War. Edited and translated by Michael How-
ard and Peter Paret. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976.
Cressey, George B. Chinas Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the
Land and Its People. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1934.
Curtis E. Lemay Center for Doctrine Development and Education. Volume
I, Basic Doctrine, 14 October 2011.
https://doctrine.af.mil/download.jsp?lename=Volume-1-Basic
-Doctrine.pdf.
Cuskey, Walter R., Arnold William Klein, and William Krasner. Drug-
Trip Abroad: American Drug-Refugees in Amsterdam and London.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972.
Drew, Col Dennis M. “Joint Operations: e World Looks Dier-
ent from 10,000 Feet.Airpower Journal 2, no. 3 (Fall 1988): 4–16.
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj88/drew
.html. [provide beginning and ending page numbers for journal
articles]
Fairbank, John K. “e Peoples Middle Kingdom.Foreign Aairs 58
(June 1964): 943–68.
Hall, Col Brian K. “Air Expeditionary Access: e African Connec-
tion. Air and Space Power Journal 17, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 47–56.
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj03/fal03
/fal03.pdf.
Schurman, Franz. China Today. New York: Vintage Books, 1970.
——— . Imperial China: e Decline of the Last Dynasty and the Ori-
gins of Modern China. New York: Vintage Books, 1967.
Spencer, Scott. “Childhood’s End.Harper’s, May 1979, 16–19.
Stevenson, Adlai E., III. e Citizen and His Government. Austin: Uni-
versity of Texas Press, 1984.
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See appendix B and page 185 of this guide (“Bibliography”), as well
as the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, for more examples
and specic rules for developing a bibliography.
5.2 block quotations. Use a block quotation for passages easily set apart
from the text, eight or more typed lines, 100 words or more, or ex-
ceeding one paragraph. Indent from both sides and single-space. Do
not use quotation marks to enclose the block quotation. Use double
quotation marks to enclose a direct quotation within a block quo-
tation. Do not indent the rst paragraph, but do indent subsequent
paragraphs. Do not insert a space between paragraphs. e block
quotation should reect the paragraphing of the original.
In volume one of AFM 1-1, Basic Aerospace Doctrine of the United
States Air Force (March 1992), Gen Merrill A. McPeak remarks,
e guidance this manual provides will be valuable to those in
eld units and to those in headquarters, to those in operations and
to those in support areas, to those who understand air and space
power and to those who are just learning. In short, this manual
will be valuable to the entire force.
I expect every airman and, in particular, every noncommis-
sioned and commissioned ocer to read, study, and understand
volume I and to become fully conversant with volume II. e con-
tents of these two volumes are at the heart of the profession of
arms for airmen.
1
e sentence that introduces a block quotation may end with a period.
is assumes that the costs of undertaking the rst part of the conict
are “sunk” once the decision for armed intervention is made. One
conict scenario in particular illustrates this point.
Regime change is forced during the course of the initial conict.
Additional marginal losses occur in both the military and civilian
populations. Postconict losses are minimal but still happen due
to incidents that arise during nation-building eorts. e costs of
nation building are signicant, but the total expense is likely to be
less than that of the other scenarios.
22
5.3 classied sources. If your document will be available to the general
public, do not cite classied information or the titles of classied doc-
uments (whether in the text, notes, bibliography, etc.).
5.4 credit line. Identify the source of an illustration (see 1.36) with a
credit line. Place it at the end of the caption (see 1.20), in parentheses
or in dierent type (or both), introduced by reprinted from or adapted
from, depending upon whether you have copied the illustration or
modied it, respectively:
Figure 3. Competitive eects on general and administrative costs.
(Adapted from Maj Paul G. Hough, “Financial Management for the
New World Order,Airpower Journal 6, no. 3 [Fall 1992]: 51.)
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Place the photographer’s name underneath a photograph and use the
word “courtesy” for a photo obtained free of charge:
Photograph courtesy of Col Mike Schrieve
Mayor Lunsford at the groundbreaking ceremony for the industrial
plant, September 2002. Courtesy of Cathi Fredericks.
Photographs from Air Force or other government sources do not re-
quire a credit line although you may include one if you wish (e.g.,
USAF photo). If all photos derive from a single source, you may omit
individual credit lines and simply include an appropriate statement
on the disclaimer page (e.g., e photographs in this book are from
US Air Force sources.).
Unless fair use applies (see appendix C), copyrighted illustrations
require permission. (Generally, AU Press authors must obtain per-
mission for all copyrighted illustrations to be reproduced in an AU
Press publication.)
Reproduced by permission from T. R. Fehrenbach, is Kind of War
(Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Brassey’s, 2000), facing 237.
If you reproduce a table from another source, identify it below the
body of the table, introduced by the word Source(s) (oen in italics
and followed by a colon). Or, since the word source lacks specic-
ity, consider using reprinted from or adapted from, depending upon
whether you have copied the table or modied it, respectively. Do
not identify the source by placing a note number aer either the table
number or the table title and then including an endnote in the list of
chapter notes. If you include a note about the entire table, place it af-
ter the source and precede it with the word “Note” and a colon.
Reprinted from Department of the Air Force, Air Force Performance in Des-
ert Storm (Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Government Printing Oce, April
1991); and authors collation of published data.
Note: ese gures represent the most reliable information currently
available.
See also identifying sources of tables (1.62); appendix C.
5.5 notes. Use the numbered-endnote and bibliography system of doc-
umentation rather than the author-date reference system. Number
the notes consecutively—beginning with 1—throughout a document
and throughout the list of notes at the end of chapters or journal ar-
ticles. Do not place note numbers aer epigraphs or chapter titles. In
text, put a superior (superscript) number at the end of a sentence or
at least at the end of a clause, following any punctuation mark (except
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a dash) or a closing parenthesis. In the note itself, place the number
(full-sized, not superscript) on the line and follow it with a period.
Strategic considerations were oen discussed,
6
and Arnold urged
abandonment of the “old ‘island to island’ theory.
Russia agreed to stop sales to Brazil—a longtime practice—at the urg-
ing of the State Department.
7
(When General Franks gave Bush a probable number of casualties,
the president approved the attack.)
8
3. Joseph S. Nye Jr., e Paradox of American Power: Why the
Worlds Only Superpower Can’t Go It Alone (New York: Oxford Uni-
versity Press, 2002), 8.
Include the following items in a full note reference to a book: (1)
authors or editors full name (as it appears on the title page), rst
name rst, including military rank (abbreviated) or academic title
if included on title page, or name of institution responsible for writ-
ing the book (alternatively, the editor’s name may follow the title of
the book [see (3)]); (2) title of the book, including subtitle, in ital-
ics; (3) editor, compiler, or translator, if any; (4) edition, if not the
rst; (5) number of volumes (if referring to a multivolume work as
a whole); (6) volume number of multivolume work (if referring to
one specic volume); (7) title of volume, if applicable; (8) series, if
any, and number in the series; (9) facts of publication—city where
published, publisher, and date of publication, all in parentheses; (10)
volume number (if citing a multivolume work, all of whose volumes
have the same title), followed by a colon; (11) page number(s) of the
specic citation; and (12) a URL (or, preferably, a DOI, if available)
for Internet sources or some indication of the medium cited (e.g.,
DVD, CD-ROM).
1. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (Philadelphia: David McKay,
1891), 29, http://www.whitmanarchive.org/archive1/works/leaves/1891
/text/frameset.html.
2. Col Phillip S. Meilinger, ed., e Paths of Heaven: e Evolution
of Airpower eory (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1997), 47.
3. Carl von Clausewitz, On War, ed. and trans. Michael Howard
and Peter Paret (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976), 13.
4. Desmond King-Hele, Shelley: His ought and Work, 2nd ed.
(Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1971), 311.
5. Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate, eds., e Army Air
Forces in World War II, 7 vols. (1948–1958; new imprint, Washington,
DC [or D.C.]: Oce of Air Force History, 1983).
6. Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate, eds., e Army Air
Forces in World War II, vol. 2, Europe: Torch to Pointblank, August
1942 to December 1943 (1949; new imprint, Washington, DC [or D.C.]:
Oce of Air Force History, 1983), 288–95.
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7. Edward Hubler, e Sense of Shakespeares Sonnets, Princeton
Studies in English, no. 33 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
1952), 117.
8. George A. Simcox, A History of Latin Literature from Ennius to
Boethius (New York: Harper, 1883), 2: 438.
Include the following items in a full reference to an article in a
periodical: (1) author’s full name, rst name rst, including military
rank (abbreviated) or academic title if included in byline of article;
(2) title of the article in quotation marks; (3) title of the periodical
in italics; (4) volume number (no abbreviation for volume) and issue
number (use no. for number) of the periodical; (5) date of the volume
or of the issue (enclosed in parentheses and followed by a colon if vol-
ume and/or issue number are given; otherwise, the date is set o with
a pair of commas); (6) page number(s) of the particular citation; and
(7) a URL (or, preferably, a DOI, if available) for online periodicals.
2. Steven Bachrach et al., “Intellectual Property: Who Should
Own Scientic Papers?,Science 281, no. 5382 (4 September 1998):
1459, doi:10.1126/science.281.5382.1459.
For subsequent references to a source, use only (1) the last name of
the author; (2) a shortened form of the title (preferably up to the rst
four words of the title or up to four key words elsewhere in the title,
if more appropriate), omitting an initial “A” or “e”; (3) a comma;
and (4) the page number(s) of the reference. Dierentiate between
authors with the same last name.
3. Edward M. Coman, e War to End All Wars: e American
Military Experience in World War I (Madison: University of Wiscon-
sin Press, 1986), 215.
4. Hunter Liggett, Ten Years Ago in France (New York: Dodd,
Mead, 1928), 84.
5. Dr. Robin Higham and Dr. Mark P. Parillo, “Management Margin:
Essential for Victory,Aerospace Power Journal 16, no. 1 (Spring 2002):
22, http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj02/spr02
/spr02.pdf.
6. Maj David W. Coman, Operational Art and the Human Di-
mension of Warfare in the 21st Century (Newport, RI: Naval War Col-
lege, 1999), 17.
7. Liggett, Ten Years Ago, 80.
8. Edward M. Coman, War to End All Wars, 220.
9. Higham and Parillo, “Management Margin,” 23.
e abbreviation ibid. (ibidem, “in the same place”) refers to a sin-
gle work cited in the note immediately preceding. Never use ibid. if
more than one work is cited in the preceding note. Do not italicize
this abbreviation in your notes. Do not use op. cit. (opere citato, “in
the work cited”) or loc. cit. (loco citato, “in the place cited”). Instead,
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use a shortened form of the citation. You may use ibid. within the
note to indicate successive references to the same work.
7. Richard G. Davis, Carl A. Spaatz and the Air War in Europe
(Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Oce of Air Force History, 1993), 331.
8. Ibid., 301.
9. Gen Richard B. Myers, “A Word from the Chairman: Shi to a
Global Perspective,Air and Space Power Journal 17, no. 3 (Fall 2003):
5, http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj03/fal03
/fal03.pdf. “By shiing our view from a regional to a global perspec-
tive, we will better comprehend and respond to Americas security
needs in the twenty-rst century” (ibid., 8).
In subsequent references in one note to works by the same author,
repeat the author’s last name.
10. Col Dennis M. Drew, “Inventing a Doctrine Process,Airpow-
er Journal 9, no. 4 (Winter 1995): 43, http://www.airpower.maxwell.af
.mil/airchronicles/apj/drew.pdf; and Drew, “Educating Air Force Of-
cers, Airpower Journal 11, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 38, http://www
.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/sum97/drew.pdf.
A shortened form is permissible for a rst citation in a chapter’s
notes if the full citation has occurred in a previous chapter. If the notes
are far apart, use a cross-reference.
11. Liggett, Ten Years Ago, 90 (see chap. 2, n. 2).
Always use Arabic numerals for volume numbers even when they
appear as Roman numerals in the book or journal itself.
Examples of full and shortened references:
3. Franz Schurman, Imperial China: e Decline of the Last Dy-
nasty and the Origins of Modern China (New York: Vintage Books,
1967), 206–8.
4. John K. Fairbank, “e Peoples Middle Kingdom,Foreign Af-
fairs 58 (1964): 943–68.
5. Capt Gerald G. O’Rourke, “Our Peaceful Navy,” US Naval In-
stitute Proceedings, April 1989, 79–83.
6. Franz Schurman, Japan Today (New York: Vintage Books,
1970), 97–100.
7. Schurman, Imperial China, 174. [Shortened form of note 3
with dierent page number.]
8. Ibid., 176. [All information the same as in the preceding note
(7) except page number.]
9. Carl von Clausewitz, On War, ed. and trans. Michael Howard
and Peter Paret (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976), 25.
10. James N. Stevens, e Foundations of Communist China, 2
vols. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1969), 1:150.
11. Ibid., 2:96. [All information the same as in the preceding note
(10) except volume number and page number.]
12. Ibid., 147. [e same volume number as in the preceding
note (11).]
13. Ibid. [e same page number as in the preceding note (12).]
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You may use shortened forms for all notes in a work only if the
bibliography includes all of the sources cited in the notes. Otherwise,
use full notes for rst citations. For the benet of the reader, you may
wish to include a brief explanatory statement preceding the rst set
of notes.
Bibliographic entry:
Reynolds, Col Richard T. Heart of the Storm: e Genesis of the Air Cam-
paign against Iraq. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1995.
First note citation to the Reynolds book in a work with full bibliog-
raphy:
Notes
(All notes appear in shortened form. For full details, see the appropri-
ate entry in the bibliography.)
1. Reynolds, Heart of the Storm, 55.
First note citation in a work without full bibliography:
Notes
1. Col Richard T. Reynolds, Heart of the Storm: e Genesis of the
Air Campaign against Iraq (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press,
1995), 55.
Include an explanation of the circumstances regarding citations of
individuals who wish to remain anonymous.
10. US embassy ocial, interview by the author, 10 August 1999.
Information obtained under conditions of nonattribution.
See appendix A of this guide or the 16th edition of the Chicago
Manual of Style for citations of public documents and unpublished
materials.
5.6 plagiarism. If you use someone elses writing as if it were your own,
you have committed plagiarism. is serious oense not only can
lead to a lawsuit but also can bring about severe professional reper-
cussions. If you use another persons wording or if you put another
persons idea into your own words, you should identify the borrowed
passage and credit the author in a note.
Strategy [is] the art of distributing and applying military means to
fulll the ends of policy.
—B. H. Liddell Hart, Strategy
If you use Liddell Hart’s denition of strategy in your text with
the intention of leading readers to believe that it is your own, you are
guilty of plagiarism. Using another writer’s exact wording is permis-
sible only if you identify the passage in your text by enclosing it in
quotation marks and including an endnote:
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Documentation
Perhaps strategy is more properly dened as “the art of distributing
and applying military means to fulll the ends of policy.
2
You should then credit your source by including a proper citation
in your list of notes:
2. B. H. Liddell Hart, Strategy, rev. ed. (New York: Frederick Praeger,
1954), 335.
Similarly, you should identify and credit other peoples writing that
you put in your own words (paraphrase). Paraphrasing, however, is
not simply a matter of changing or rearranging a few words here and
there; you must recast the passage:
unacceptable paraphrase:
Strategy is the art of applying and distributing military means to
achieve the objectives of policy.
2
acceptable paraphrase:
B. H. Liddell Hart envisioned a country’s military as an instrument
for carrying out national policy. e purpose of strategy, then, is de-
ciding how to use the military toward this end.
2
Ideally, you should introduce your paraphrase so that the reader
has no question about where your own commentary ends and where
your paraphrase begins, as is the case in the example above (i.e., men-
tioning the author’s name marks the beginning of the paraphrase,
and the endnote number shows where it ends). See also quotations
(5.7) and appendix C.
5.7 quotations. Certain rules apply when you quote directly from the
work of other writers. You should credit your source by identifying
it in an endnote. If you quote at length from a copyrighted work, you
should obtain written permission from the holder of the copyright
(see also appendix C of this guide). According to the Chicago Manual
of Style (16th ed., sec. 13.7),
Although in a direct quotation the wording should be
reproduced exactly, the following changes are generally
permissible to make a passage t into the syntax and ty-
pography of the surrounding text. . . .
1. Single quotation marks may be changed to double,
and double to single; . . . punctuation relative to question
marks should be adjusted accordingly. . . . Guillemets
and other types of quotation marks in a foreign language
may be changed to regular single or double quotation
marks. . . .
2. e initial letter may be changed to a capital or a low-
ercase letter. . . .
144 5.0 DOCUMENTATION
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3. A nal period may be omitted or changed to a comma
as required, and punctuation may be omitted where el-
lipsis points are used. . . .
4. Original note reference marks (and the notes to
which they refer) may be omitted unless omission would
aect the meaning of the quotation. If an original note
is included, the quotation may best be set o as a block
quotation . . . with the note in smaller type at the end, or
the note may be summarized in the accompanying text.
Authors may, on the other hand, add note references of
their own within quotations.
5. Obvious typographic errors may be corrected silently
(without comment or sic; . . .) unless the passage quoted is
from an older work or a manuscript source where idiosyn-
crasies of spelling are generally preserved. If spelling and
punctuation are modernized or altered for clarity, readers
must be so informed in a note, in a preface, or elsewhere.
You may incorporate quotations in the text as part of a sentence
and enclose them in quotation marks or set them o from the text as
a block quotation (see 5.2). If the quoted matter is 8 or more lines or
more than 100 words, you should usually set it o from the text.
Integrate short quotations into the text. When you use a quotation
as part of a sentence, lowercase the initial letter and omit or change
the end punctuation (if appropriate), even though the original is a
complete sentence beginning with a capital letter. When the quota-
tion is not dependent on the rest of the sentence, capitalize the initial
letter (a comma rather than a colon is oen used aer said, replied,
asked, and similar verbs). If a quotation that is only part of a sentence
in the original forms a complete sentence as quoted, you may change
a lowercase letter to a capital.
Colonel Green emphasized that “the military plays an important role
in the political arena.
7
Colonel Green said, “e military plays an important role in the po-
litical arena.
7
Colonel Green made the following statement: “Military [services
play] an important role in the political arena.
7
If you include a quotation in a note, place the source aer the quotation:
23. Intellectual property is “the group of legal rights to things people
create or invent. Intellectual property rights typically include patent,
copyright, trademark and trade secret rights.” “Glossary,” SitePoint, ac-
cessed 21 October 2010, http://www.sitepoint.com/glossary.php?q=I.
Note Citations
APPENDIX A
Note Citations
APPENDIX A 147
Note Citations
Examples of several categories of notes appear below. For other examples,
see the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. Place notes at the end
of each chapter, journal article, or paper/monograph not divided into chap-
ters—not at the bottom of the page or at the end of the book. For subsequent
references, use ibid. or a shortened form of the note. Use ibid. to refer to the
note immediately preceding (do not use ibid. if the preceding note contains
more than one citation). You may use ibid. within the note to indicate succes-
sive references to the same work.
7. Richard G. Davis, Carl A. Spaatz and the Air War in Europe (Wash-
ington, DC [or D.C.]: Oce of Air Force History, 1993), 331.
8. Ibid., 301.
9. Gen Richard B. Myers, “A Word from the Chairman: Shi to a
Global Perspective,Air and Space Power Journal 17, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 5,
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj03/fal03/fal03
.pdf. “By shiing our view from a regional to a global perspective, we
will better comprehend and respond to Americas security needs in the
twenty-rst century” (ibid., 8).
For subsequent references to a source, use only (1) the last name of the
author; (2) a shortened form of the title (preferably up to the rst four words
of the title or up to four key words elsewhere in the title, if more appropriate),
omitting an initial “A” or “e”; (3) a comma; and (4) the page number(s) of
the reference. Dierentiate between authors with the same last name.
3. Edward M. Coman, e War to End All Wars: e American Mili-
tary Experience in World War I (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,
1986), 215.
4. Hunter Liggett, Ten Years Ago in France (New York: Dodd, Mead,
1928), 84.
5. Dr. Robin Higham and Dr. Mark P. Parillo, “Management Margin: Es-
sential for Victory,Aerospace Power Journal 16, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 22, http://
www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj02/spr02/spr02.pdf.
6. Maj David W. Coman, Operational Art and the Human Dimension
of Warfare in the 21st Century (Newport, RI: Naval War College, 1999), 17.
7. Liggett, Ten Years Ago, 80.
8. Edward M. Coman, War to End All Wars, 220.
9. Higham and Parillo, “Management Margin,” 23.
You may use shortened forms for all notes in a work only if the bibliogra-
phy includes all of the sources cited in the notes. Otherwise, use full notes for
rst citations. For the benet of the reader, you may wish to include a brief
explanatory statement preceding the rst set of notes.
Bibliographic entry:
Reynolds, Col Richard T. Heart of the Storm: e Genesis of the Air Cam-
paign against Iraq. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1995.
148 APPENDIX A
Note Citations
First note citation to the Reynolds book in a work with full bibliography:
Notes
(All notes appear in shortened form. For full details, see the appropriate
entry in the bibliography.)
1. Reynolds, Heart of the Storm, 55.
First note citation in a work without full bibliography:
Notes
1. Col Richard T. Reynolds, Heart of the Storm: e Genesis of the Air
Campaign against Iraq (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1995), 55.
A shortened form is permissible for a rst citation in a chapter’s notes if the
full citation has occurred in a previous chapter. If the notes are far apart, use
a cross-reference.
11. Liggett, Ten Years Ago, 90 (see chap. 2, n. 2).
Books
One author
1.
Gen William C. Westmoreland, A Soldier Reports (Garden City, NY:
Doubleday & Co., 1976), 112, 195–96. [Reproduce the authors name as it ap-
pears on the title page.]
Two authors
1.
John W. Masland and Laurence I. Radway, Soldiers and Scholars: Mili-
tary Education and National Policy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
1957), 117–21. [List the authors’ names in the order in which they appear on
the title page.]
ree authors
1.
Robert Strausz-Hupe, William R. Kintner, and Stefan T. Possony, A For-
ward Strategy for America (New York: Harper & Bros., 1961), 117. [List the
authors’ names in the order in which they appear on the title page.]
More than three authors
1.
Gerald Pomper et al., e Election of 1976 (New York: McKay, 1977), 61.
[Give the name of the author listed rst on the title page followed by “et al.
or “and others.”]
2.
Chris Hendrickson et al., “Economic Input-Output Models for Environ-
mental Life-Cycle Assessment,Environmental Science and Technology 32, no.
7 (1 April 1998): 185.
3.
Pomper et al., Election of 1976, 60. [shortened form]
APPENDIX A 149
Note Citations
No author given
1. Soviet Military Power (Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Government Printing
Oce, 1983), 13–18. [Do not use Anonymous or Anon.]
Editor, compiler, or translator
1.
Alfred Goldberg, ed., A History of the United States Air Force, 1907–1957
(Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand, 1957), 7. [Use the name of the editor, com-
piler, or translator in place of the author when no author’s name appears on
the title page.]
2.
J. P. Mayer, Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America, trans. George
Lawrence (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1969), 648. [When the author’s name
appears on the title page, place the name of the editor, compiler, or transla-
tor aer the title, preceded by ed. (edited by), comp. (compiled by), or trans.
(translated by).]
3.
Carl von Clausewitz, On War, ed. and trans. Michael Howard and Peter
Paret (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976), 145–47.
4.
Marshal Foch, e Principles of War, trans. Hilaire Belloc (London:
Chapman & Hall, 1918), 7, 18–19.
5.
Goldberg, History, 10. [shortened form; omit the abbreviation for editor]
Multivolume works and series
1.
Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate, eds., e Army Air Forces in
World War II, vol. 2, Europe: Torch to Pointblank, August 1942 to December
1943 (1949; new imprint, Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Oce of Air Force His-
tory, 1983), 288–95. [One volume in the series.]
2.
Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate, eds., e Army Air Forces in
World War II, 7 vols. (1948–1958; new imprint, Washington, DC [or D.C.]:
Oce of Air Force History, 1983). [Entire series.]
3.
Winston S. Churchill, e Second World War, vol. 4, e Hinge of Fate
(Boston: Houghton Miin, 1948), 521.
4.
Warren A. Trest, Military Unity and National Policy: Some Past Eects
and Future Implications, CADRE Paper Special Series: e Future of the Air
Force, no. AU-ARI-CPSS-91-7 (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, De-
cember 1991), 12.
Association or institution as author
1.
Gates Commission, e Report of the Presidents Commission on an All-
Volunteer Armed Force (Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Government Printing Of-
ce, 1970), 3–9.
2.
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Work in America (Cam-
bridge, MA: MIT Press, 1973), 104–6.
150 APPENDIX A
Note Citations
Work of one author in a work edited by another
1.
Col John A. Warden III, “Air eory for the Twenty-First Century,” in
Challenge and Response: Anticipating US Military Security Concerns, ed. Dr.
Karl P. Magyar et al. (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, August 1994),
320–21. [If you are citing the entire chapter or contribution, include the rst
and last page numbers of the chapter/contribution.]
2.
Dr. Lewis B. Ware, “Regional Study 1: Conict and Confrontation in the
Post-Cold-War Middle East,” in Magyar et al., Challenge and Response, 49.
[When you cite a dierent chapter/contribution in the same book as previ-
ously cited, include a shortened citation for that book.]
3.
Capt John T. Folmar, “Desert Storm Chapstick,” in From the Line in the
Sand: Accounts of USAF Company Grade Ocers in Support of Desert Shield /
Desert Storm, ed. Capt Michael P. Vriesenga (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air Univer-
sity Press, March 1994), 19–20.
4.
Warden, “Air eory,” 325. [shortened form]
Edition
1.
John N. Hazard, e Soviet System of Government, 5th ed. (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1980), 23–25.
2.
Norbert Weiner, e Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and So-
ciety, 2d [or 2nd] ed. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951), 68–71.
3.
Hazard, Soviet System of Government, 24. [shortened form]
Reprint editions
1.
Neil Harris, e Artist in American Society: e Formative Years, 1790–
1860 (1966; repr., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), 43–44.
2.
Giulio Douhet, e Command of the Air, trans. Dino Ferrari (1942; new
imprint, Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Oce of Air Force History, 1983), 67.
Periodicals
Volume number not shown
1.
“Congress Sends Nixon a Message,Newsweek, 19 November 1973, 39.
2.
TSgt Jim Katzaman, “Basics of Bombing,Airman, June 1986, 8–12.
3.
“Unions Are Alien to Our Defense System,Retired Ocer, May 1976, 25.
4.
“Currents in the News,U.S. News and World Report, 11 February 1980, 5.
5.
Jay Finegan, “Struggling with Ination,Times Magazine (supplement to
Air Force Times), 1 September 1980, 4.
APPENDIX A 151
Note Citations
Volume number shown
1.
Col Richard F. Rosser, “American Civil-Military Relations in the 1980s,
Naval War College Review 24, no. 10 (June 1972): 14–15.
2.
Donald S. Zagoria, “Chinas Quiet Revolution,Foreign Aairs 62, no. 4
(Spring 1984): 879–904.
3.
Philip Handler, “e American University Today,American Scientist
64, no. 3 (May–June 1976): 254–57.
4.
Franklin D. Margiotta, “A Military Elite in Transition: Air Force Leaders
in the 1980s,Armed Forces and Society 2, no. 2 (Winter 1976): 155–84.
5.
Rosser, “American Civil-Military Relations,” 14. [shortened form]
Newspaper Items
Editorial
1.
Editorial, Atlanta Constitution, 19 June 1986. [Omit the initial the from
titles of English language newspapers.]
News story
1.
S. Fred Singer, “What Is Happening to World Oil?,Wall Street Journal,
10 March 1982.
2.
William Robbins, “Big Wheels: e Rotary Club at 75,New York Times,
Sunday, 17 February 1980, sec. 3.
3.
Lt Gen Murphy A. Cheaney, “Military’s Quality Medical Care for a
Healthy Army,Washington Times, 16 December 1985, nal edition.
Encyclopedia/Dictionary Articles
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed., s.v. “canning, commercial.” [Cite the
item, preceded by s.v. (sub verbo, “under the word”).]
2.
Dictionary of American Biography, s.v. “Wadsworth, Jeremiah.
Historical Studies
1. Robert T. Finney, History of the Air Corps Tactical School, 1920–1940,
USAF Historical Study 100 (Maxwell AFB, AL: USAF Historical Division, Air
University, 1955), 35–38.
2.
R. Earl McClendon, Autonomy of the Air Arm (Maxwell AFB, AL: Doc-
umentary Research Division, Air University, 1954), 16–21.
3.
Chase C. Mooney and Martha E. Layman, Organization of Military
Aeronautics, 1907–1935, Army Air Forces Historical Study 25 (Washington,
DC [or D.C.]: Army Air Forces Historical Division, 1944), 29–32.
152 APPENDIX A
Note Citations
4. Herman S. Wolk, USAF Plans and Policies: Logistics and Base Construc-
tion in Southeast Asia, 1967 (Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Oce of Air Force
History, 1968), 36–39.
5.
omas H. Greer, e Development of Air Doctrine in the Army Air Arm,
1917–1941, USAF Historical Study 89 (Maxwell AFB, AL: USAF Historical
Division, Air University, 1955), 9–10.
Sta Studies
1. Evaluation Division, Air University, To Analyze the USAF Publications
System for Producing Manuals, sta study, 13 July 1948.
2.
Col Herbert V. Staudenmaier, CONUS Aeromedical Evacuation Study,
sta study, 31 March 1983.
3.
Col Charles G. Williamson, chief, Status of Operations Division, Di-
rectorate of Bombardment, Headquarters Army Air Forces, to Directorate of
Bombardment, Headquarters Army Air Forces, Status of Operations Report,
sta study, 3 March 1943.
4.
Staudenmaier, CONUS Aeromedical Evacuation Study. [shortened form]
Unit and Sta Oce Histories
1. History, Deputy Chief of Sta for Plans and Programs, Directorate of
Plans, Headquarters USAF, July–December 1958, 114, 163–64.
2.
History, Research Studies Institute, July–December 1959, 1.
3.
History of the Oce of the Inspector General USAF, Directorate of Spe-
cial Investigations, 1 January–30 June 1963, 45–47.
4.
History, Tactical Air Command, 1 July–31 December 1953, 193–94.
Reports
Published
1.
Department of Commerce, Management of Internet Names and Address-
es, US government white paper (Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Department of
Commerce, June 1998), 2.
2.
United States Department of State, e China White Paper, August 1949
(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, [1967]), 7. [brackets indicate that
the date of publication does not appear in the report]
3.
John Erickson, e Soviet Military, Soviet Policy, and Soviet Politics,
USSI Report 73-3 (Washington, DC [or D.C.]: United States Strategic Insti-
tute, 1973), 5.
4.
Richard V. L. Cooper, Military Manpower and the All-Volunteer Force,
RAND Report R-1450-ARPA (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, September 1977),
86–94.
APPENDIX A 153
Note Citations
5. Comptroller General of the United States, Report to the Congress: Student
Attrition at the Five Federal Service Academies (Washington, DC [or D.C.]:
General Accounting Oce, 1976), 16–23.
6.
Nancy Guinn, Identication of Service Irritants, AFHRL-TR-75-52
(Brooks AFB, TX: Air Force Systems Command, 1973).
7.
James E. Dougherty and Diane K. Pfaltzgra, Eurocommunism and the
Atlantic Alliance, special report (Cambridge, MA: Institute for Foreign Policy
Analysis, 1977), 6.
8.
Department of Defense, Annual Report of the Secretary of Defense and the
Annual Reports of the Secretary of the Army, Secretary of the Navy, and Secre-
tary of the Air Force, July 1, 1958 to June 30, 1959 (Washington, DC [or D.C.]:
Government Printing Oce, 1960), 44.
9.
Maj Mark A. Cochran, Unit-Level Automation for Air Force Contingen-
cy Operations in Low-Intensity Conict, Research Report no. AU-ARI-91-4
(Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, June 1992), 21.
Unpublished
1.
Maj John B. Hungerford Jr., “Organization for Military Space: A Histori-
cal Perspective,” Research Report no. 82-1235 (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air Com-
mand and Sta College, 1982), 9–19.
2.
Report of Air Corps Board, “Revision of Field Service Regulations,
study no. 45, 15 November 1983, 2.
3.
Report of the General Headquarters Air Force (Provisional) 1933, ca.
20 July 1933.
Unpublished Papers
1. Richard K. Betts, “Soldiers, Statesmen, and Resort to Force: American
Military Inuence in Crisis Decisions, 1945–1976” (PhD diss., Harvard Uni-
versity, 1975), 78–86.
2.
Dorothy Ross, “e Irish-Catholic Immigrant, 1880–1900: A Study in
Social Mobility” (master’s thesis, Columbia University, n.d.), 142–55.
3.
Betts, “Soldiers, Statesmen,” 80. [shortened form]
4.
P. omas, “Utilization of Enlisted Women in the Military” (paper pre-
sented at the RAND Conference on Defense Manpower, Santa Monica, CA,
February 1976), 8.
5.
Deborah D. Lucki and Richard W. Pollay, “Content Analyses of Advertis-
ing: A Review of the Literature” (working paper, History of Advertising Ar-
chives, Faculty of Commerce, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1980).
6.
omas, “Utilization of Enlisted Women,” 7. [shortened form]
154 APPENDIX A
Note Citations
Manuscript Collections
For material cited, include title, date, series title (if applicable), name of the
collection, and name of the depository. e following examples come from
the Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.), 14.240.
1.
James Oglethorpe to the Trustees, 13 January 1733, Phillipps Collection
of Egmont Manuscripts, 14200:13, University of Georgia Library.
2.
Memorandum by Alvin Johnson, 1937, le 36, Horace Kallen Papers,
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York.
3.
George Creel to Colonel House, 25 September 1918, Edward M. House
Papers, Yale University Library.
4.
Undated correspondence between French Strother and Edward Lowry,
container 1-G/961 600, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, IA.
5.
Joseph Purcell, “A Map of the Southern Indian District of North Ameri-
ca” [ca. 1772], MS 228, Ayer Collection, Newberry Library, Chicago.
6.
Louis Agassiz, report to the Committee of Overseers . . . [28 December
1859], Overseers Reports, Professional Series, vol. 2, Harvard University
Archives.
Legal Citations
e examples of legal citations included here assume inclusion in a non-
legal work and, therefore, have been adapted to the style of documentation
presented in this appendix. us, the format for citations of legal books/trea-
tises and articles in periodicals is the same as that shown in the appropriate
sections of this appendix.
1. AT&T Corporation v. Iowa Utilities, in United States Supreme Court Reports,
vol. 525 (1999), 366.
2. Old Chief v. United States, in Supreme Court Reporter, vol. 117 (1997), 644.
3. United States v. Dennis, in Federal Reporter, vol. 183 (2d [or 2nd] US
Circuit Court of Appeals, 1950), 201.
4. Brown v. Board of Education, in Federal Supplement, vol. 98 (US Dis-
trict Court, Kansas, 1951), 797.
5. Lugosi [plainti] v. Universal [defendant], in California Reports, 3d [or
3rd] series, vol. 25 (California Supreme Court, 1976), 813.
6. Daniels v. Weigum, in California Appellate Reports, 2d [or 2nd] series,
vol. 194 (California Court of Appeals, 1961), 620.
7. Dennis, 202. [shortened form (italicized)]
APPENDIX A 155
Note Citations
Public Documents
An endnote citing congressional hearings and other public documents
should include the following information:
1.
Author (name of house, committee, and subcommittee if any)
2.
Title of document
3.
Number of Congress and session number
4.
Date of publication (year)
5.
Part and number of report or document, if applicable
6.
Page number(s)
Sometimes you may need to include additional information. Take all infor-
mation from the title page of the document.
Bills, reports, and miscellaneous documents
1.
House, A Bill to Require Passenger-Carrying Motor Vehicles Purchased
for Use by the Federal Government to Meet Certain Safety Standards, 86th
Cong., 1st sess., 1959, H.R. 1341, 1–4.
2.
House, Organization and Management of Missile Programs, Eleventh Re-
port by the Committee on Government Operations, 86th Cong., 1st sess., 1959,
H.R. 1121, 154–56.
3.
House, Passenger-Carrying Motor Vehicles, 3. [shortened form]
4.
House Committee on Education and Labor, White House Conference on
Aging: Report to Accompany S. J. Res. 117, 90th Cong., 2d [or 2nd] sess., 1 May
1968, 5.
5.
Senate, Report of the Federal Trade Commission on Utility Corporations,
70th Cong., 1st sess., 1935, S. Doc. 92, pt. 71A.
6.
House, United States Defense Policies in 1958, 86th Cong., 1st sess., 1959,
H. Doc. 227, 114.
7.
H.R. Rep. 871, 78th Cong., 1st sess., 1943, 49.
8.
Senate, Documents on the International Aspects of the Exploration and
Use of Outer Space, 1954–1962, 88th Cong., 1st sess., 1963, S. Doc. 18, 55–56.
9.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Foreign Policy,
86th Cong., 2d [or 2nd] sess., 1960, Committee Print, 1:729.
10.
House Committee on Foreign Aairs, Central America, 1981: Report
to the Committee on Foreign Aairs, prepared by Hon. Gerry E. Studds, 97th
Cong., 1st sess., 1981, Committee Print, 31.
11.
House Committee on Education and Labor, White House Conference,
3. [shortened form]
12.
Department of State, American Foreign Policy, Current Documents,
1958 (Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Government Printing Oce, 1962), 1413.
156 APPENDIX A
Note Citations
Hearings
1.
Senate, Study of Air Power: Hearings before the Subcommittee on the Air
Force of the Committee on Armed Services, 84th Cong., 2d [or 2nd] sess., 1956, 52.
2.
Senate, Investigation of Governmental Organization for Space Activities:
Hearings before the Subcommittee on Governmental Activities of the Commit-
tee on Aeronautical and Space Science, 86th Cong., 1st sess., 1959, 379–80.
3.
Senate, Study of Air Power, 1727. [shortened form]
4.
House, Department of Defense Appropriations for 1954: Hearings before
the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, 83d [or 83rd] Cong.,
1st sess., 1953, 317.
5.
House, Inquiry into Operations of the United States Air Services: Hearings
before the Select Committee on Inquiry into Operations of the United States Air
Services, 69th Cong., 2d [or 2nd] sess., 1925, pt. 4:2269–70.
6.
House, Department of Defense Appropriations, 289–91. [shortened form]
Congressional bills and resolutions
Known as public laws or statutes, bills and resolutions rst appear in the
Congressional Record, then in United States Statutes at Large, oen in the Unit-
ed States Code Annotated, and nally in the United States Code.
1.
Food Security Act of 1985, H.R. 2100, 99th Cong., 1st sess., Congressio-
nal Record 131 (8 October 1985): H8461.
2.
Homeland Security Act of 2002, H.R. 5005, 107th Cong. (2002).
3.
S. Res. 218, 83d [or 83rd] Cong., 2d [or 2nd] sess., 1954.
4.
Atomic Energy Act of 1946, Public Law 585, 79th Cong., 2d [or 2nd]
sess. (1 August 1946), 12, 19.
5.
Atomic Energy Act of 1946, US Statutes at Large 60 (1947): 767, 774.
[Citations to the statutes are to volume, year, and page number.]
6.
Declaratory Judgment Act, US Code, vol. 28, secs. 2201–2 (1952). [Cita-
tions to the code are always to section number, not page.]
7.
Atomic Energy Act, 12. [shortened form]
Executive department documents
1.
Department of Defense, Prole of American Youth: 1980 Administration
of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (Washington, DC [or D.C.]:
Oce of the Assistant Secretary of Defense [Manpower, Reserve Aairs, and
Logistics], March 1982), 19.
2.
Department of Defense, Ocial Guard and Reserve Manpower Strengths
and Statistics, Fiscal Year 1985 Summary (Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Assis-
tant Secretary of Defense [Reserve Aairs], n.d.), 8.
3.
Department of Defense, Prole of American Youth, 23. [shortened form]
APPENDIX A 157
Note Citations
Presidential proclamations, executive orders, other documents
1. President, Proclamation, “Supplemental Quota on Imports of Long-
Staple Cotton,Federal Register 15, no. 196 (10 October 1950): 127, microche.
2.
Executive Order (EO) 9877, Functions of the Armed Services, 26 July
1947.
3.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhow-
er, 1957 (Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Government Printing Oce, 1958), 796.
4.
EO 9877, Functions. [shortened form]
5.
Public Papers: Eisenhower, 274–90. [shortened form]
6.
Statement of the President, 26 January 1968, in Weekly Compilation of
Presidential Documents 4, no. 4 (29 January 1968): 133.
7.
UN General Assembly, Resolution 1721 (XVI), “International Coopera-
tion in the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space,” 20 December 1961.
Classied Sources
If your document will be available to the general public, do not cite clas-
sied information or the titles of classied documents (whether in the text,
notes, bibliography, etc.). If arrangements have been made to publish your
work as a classied document, then any references you make to other clas-
sied documents should include the classication of the title (immediately
following the title) and the overall classication of the document (at the end
of the publication data), as follows (note that U=unclassied):
1.
[document number], [title of document] (U), [date]. ([level of classica-
tion, e.g., Secret])
2.
[originating oce], [title of document] (U), [date], supporting docu-
ment [number of supporting document]. ([level of classication, e.g., Top
Secret])
3.
[name of author], [title of document] (U) ([place of publication]: [pub-
lisher], [date]), [page no(s)]. ([level of classication, e.g., Secret])
Declassied Sources
1. Central Intelligence Agency, National Intelligence Estimate Number 11-
5-57 (Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Central Intelligence Agency, 1957), 62. Doc-
ument is now declassied.
Letters, E-Mails, and Endorsements
1. Lt Col C. C. Culver to chief of Air Corps, letter, 9 June 1928; 1st end.
[endorsement], Maj L. W. McIntosh, executive, Oce of the Chief of Air
Corps, to commandant, Air Corps Tactical School, 1 September 1928.
158 APPENDIX A
Note Citations
If you wish, you may include the subject of the letter/e-mail.
2.
Maj W. G. Kilner, executive, Oce of Chief of Air Service, to comman-
dant, Air Service Tactical School, letter, subject: Proposed Revision of the
Policy of the Army and Navy Relating to Aircra, 12 April 1925.
3.
Adjutant general to commanding generals, all corps areas et al., letter,
31 December 1934.
4.
Maj John Smith, chief, Oce of Public Aairs, Maxwell AFB, AL, to the
author, e-mail, 20 November 2005.
5.
Kilner to commandant, letter. [shortened form]
6.
Capt Harry A. Johnson, Command and General Sta School, to chief,
Air Corps, letter, 18 January 1935; 2d [or 2nd] end., Lt Col H. A. Pratt, chief,
Air Corps, Materiel Division, to chief, Air Corps, 16 February 1935; 3d [or
3rd] end., Col A. G. Fisher, president, Air Corps Board, to chief, Air Corps,
15 July 1945.
7.
Smith to the author, e-mail. [shortened form]
Memorandums
Regular memorandum
1.
Lt Col G. W. Bundy, War Plans Division, War Department General Sta,
to Lt Col Clayton J. Bissell, War Plans Division, memorandum, 18 July 1941.
If you wish, you may include the subject of the memorandum.
2.
Col William W. Momyer, deputy commandant for evaluation, Air War
College, to Maj Gen John DeF. Barker, deputy commanding general, Air Uni-
versity, memorandum, subject: Progress of the Manual Program, 17 Septem-
ber 1952.
3.
Bundy to Bissell, memorandum. [shortened form]
Dra memorandum
1. Chief, Air Corps, to chief of sta, Army, dra memorandum, 28 March
1938.
Memorandum of understanding
1.
Secretary of the Army to secretary of the Air Force, memorandum of
understanding, 2 October 1951.
Memorandum for record
1.
Gen Nathan F. Twining, vice-chief of sta, US Air Force, memorandum
for record, 17 November 1950.
APPENDIX A 159
Note Citations
Messages
1. Message, TST-587, Joint Chiefs of Sta, to commanding general, Strate-
gic Air Command, 13 April 1949.
2.
Message, AFCVC-51413, US Air Force to commanding general, Far
East Air Forces, 14 August 1950.
3.
Message, 281415Z OCT 90, US Air Force to commanding general, Far
East Air Forces, 28 October 1990.
Doctrine Publications, Manuals,
Instructions, Directives, and Others
1. Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education,
Volume I, Basic Doctrine, 14 October 2011, 25, https://doctrine.af.mil
/download.jsp?lename=Volume-1-Basic-Doctrine.pdf.
2.
War Department, Field Service Regulations, United States Army (Wash-
ington, DC [or D.C.]: Government Printing Oce, 1924), 11, 21–24.
3. War Department, Field Service Regulations, 23. [shortened form]
4.
War Department Training Regulation (WDTR) 440-15, Employment of
the Air Forces of the Army, 15 October 1935, 2.
5.
Air Force Instruction (AFI) 90-901, Operational Risk Management, 1
April 2000, 4.
6.
WDTR 440-15, Employment, 1. [shortened form]
7.
Air Force Pamphlet (AFPAM) 36-106, Supervisor’s Records, 20 Decem-
ber 1993, 4.
8.
Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education,
e Air Force Core Values,” in Volume II, Leadership, 4 November 2011, 5,
https://doctrine.af.mil/download.jsp?lename=Volume-2-Leadership.pdf.
9.
DOD Directive (DODD) 5015.2, DOD Records Management Program,
6 March 2000, 5.
10.
Air Force Manual (AFMAN) 36-505, Skill Coding, 1 August 1996, 3.
11.
Maj Gary Ambrose, Sta Summary Sheet, Memorandum of Agreement
on USAF Air Refueling Support for Navy Operations, 13 December 1985.
12.
Air Force Policy Letter for Commanders: Supplement, February 1970, 2–6.
13. Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education,
Annex 3-2, Irregular Warfare,” 15 March 2013, 2, https://doctrine.af.mil
/download.jsp?lename=3-2-Annex-IRREGULAR-WARFARE.pdf.
Source Cited/Quoted in Another Source
1. Quoted in George E. Lowe, e Age of Deterrence (Boston: Little, Brown
& Co., 1964), 232.
2.
Quoted in Samuel P. Huntington, “Democracy Fights a Limited War:
Korea, 1950–1953,” in Major Crises in American History: Documentary Problems,
160 APPENDIX A
Note Citations
ed. Merrill F. Peterson and Leonard W. Levy (New York: Harcourt, Brace and
World, 1962), 2:481.
3.
Quoted in Lowe, Age of Deterrence, 234. [shortened form]
4.
Letter of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to Cong. Robert Mill-
er, 3 November 1961, in House, Sundry Legislation Aecting the Naval and
Military Establishment, 1963: Hearings before the Committee on Armed Ser-
vices, 88th Cong., 1st sess., 1963, 2729–30.
5.
Statement of F. Trubee Davison in “U.S. President’s Air Policy Commis-
sion,” unclassied testimony before the Presidents Air Policy Commission
(Washington, DC [or D.C.]: 1 December 1947, mimeographed), 6:2644–49.
6.
Statement of Lt Gen Paul Gorman, director for plans and policy, Orga-
nization of the Joint Chiefs of Sta, in Senate, Department of Defense Autho-
rization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1982: Hearings before the Subcom-
mittee on Sea Power and Force Projection of the Committee on Armed Services,
97th Cong., 1st sess., 1981, pt. 4:89.
7.
Davison, “Air Policy Commission,” 6:2648. [shortened form]
Diaries, Minutes, Chronologies,
Summaries, Digests, Notes, and So Forth
1. Diary of Fleet Adm William D. Leahy, 8 February 1946, William D. Leahy
Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC [or D.C.].
2.
Minutes of the War Department Board of Ordnance and Fortication,
24 October 1905, quoted in Jones Aviation Chronology, 1900–1906, 61.
3.
Minutes of monthly meetings of Army Air Forces Board, 2 January 1945.
4.
Minutes of the Patch Sword II Conference conducted at Headquarters
AFSC, Andrews AFB, MD, October 1981, 26.
5.
Chronology, Astronautics and Aeronautics (NASA, 1966), 252, 305, 373.
6.
Air Sta Summary Sheet, Lt Col Andrew C. Barbee, Policy and Plans
Group, Report of Air Force Support of National Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration, 20 March 1967.
7.
Daily Sta Digest, Headquarters USAF, 13 November 1967.
8.
Notes, Fih Air Force Planning Conference, 12 December 1951.
9.
Brieng, 6127th Air Terminal Group, subject: Air Terminal Detach-
ments in Korea, 1 March 1951.
10.
Brig Gen Mervin E. Gross, chief, Requirements Division, Aviation Sec-
tion, Signal Corps, Oce of the Chief of Research, Army Air Forces, record and
routing (R&R) sheet, subject: Centralization of Certain Literature-Producing
Functions at Orlando, FL, 27 November 1944.
11.
FM 90-14, “Rear Battle,” nal dra, 19 November 1984, i.
12.
Gross, R&R sheet. [shortened form]
APPENDIX A 161
Note Citations
Lectures and Addresses
1. Maj Gen Mason M. Patrick, “e Army Air Service” (lecture, Army War
College, Carlisle Barracks, PA, 9 November 1925).
2.
Gen Curtis E. LeMay, chief of sta, US Air Force (address, Air Force As-
sociation Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 21 September 1961).
3.
Patrick, “Army Air Service.” [shortened form]
4.
Gen Earle G. Wheeler (graduation address, Industrial College of the
Armed Forces, Washington, DC [or D.C.], 11 June 1963).
5.
Sir Robert Saundby, “British Air Doctrine” (lecture, Air War College,
Maxwell AFB, AL, 10 November 1953).
Interviews
1. Jerry Gibson (MCI Communications Corp.), interview by the author, 7
March 1983.
2.
Gerald Sorbet (vice president, Fred’s Frozen Foods, Bismarck, ND), in
discussion with the author, 21 October 2003.
3.
Richard Voit, Warren Brasselle, and Kerry Deimer, interview by the au-
thor during visit to MCI Communications Corp., Southern Region, Atlanta,
GA, 22 April 1983.
4.
Maj Gen C. E. McKnight Jr. (US Army Communications Command,
Fort Huachuca, AZ), interview by the author, 24 February 1983.
5.
Sorbet, discussion. [shortened form]
6.
Lt Col Jerry A. Singleton, interview by Dr. James C. Hasdor, 30 October
1992, transcript, p. 24, US Air Force Academy Library, Colorado Springs, CO.
7.
McKnight, interview. [shortened form]
8.
McGeorge Bundy, interview by Robert MacNeil, MacNeil/Lehrer News-
Hour, PBS, 7 February 1990.
9.
Interview with colonel from Air Combat Command, 7 February 2004.
[unattributed interview]
Video Recordings
1. Morris Massey, What You Are Is, CBS-Fox video, 30 min., 1983, video-
cassette.
2.
Louis J. Mihalyi, Landscapes of Zambia, Central Africa (Santa Barbara,
CA: Visual Education, 1975), 35 mm slides.
3.
“Dogght with Soviet Jets,Top Gun, directed by Tony Scott (Holly-
wood, CA: Paramount, 2004), DVD.
162 APPENDIX A
Note Citations
Translation Services
1. Sergey Agafonov, “Japan in Russias Financial Market: Bank of Tokyo to
Open in Moscow,Izvestiya, 9 June 1992, 7, in FBIS [Foreign Broadcast Infor-
mation Service] Report: Central Eurasia, FBIS-USR-92-079, 29 June 1992, 4.
2.
A. Boldinyuk, “e Karelian Issue: Does It Exist, and If So, in What
Form?,Pravda, 11 June 1992, 3, in FBIS-USR-92-079, 2. [subsequent refer-
ence to same FBIS issue]
3.
Robert Minasov, “Gosznak Is Not Equal to the Task,Rossiyskaya Gaze-
ta, 18 June 1992, 1, in FBIS-USR-92-080, 1 July 1992, 6. [subsequent reference
to dierent FBIS issue but same coverage (i.e., Central Eurasia)]
4.
“Opposition Parties Oppose Election Postponement,Korea Times, 25
June 1992, 2, in FBIS Report: East Asia, FBIS-EAS-92-123, 25 June 1992, 23.
Electronic Publications
(Examples taken from the Chicago Manual of Style [16th ed.] include a paren-
thetical reference to that source.)
Electronic books
When citing electronic books available online, include as much of the in-
formation as can be determined that would also apply to printed books (au-
thor, title, volume, place of publication, publisher, date of publication, and so
forth). Include the URL (or, preferably, a DOI if available) as part of the cita-
tion. You need not include the date accessed (e.g., “accessed 11 March 2011”)
unless the material has no date of publication or revision. If you do include
an access date, place it before the URL or DOI, preceded and followed by a
comma.
1.
Col Richard T. Reynolds, Heart of the Storm: e Genesis of the Air Cam-
paign against Iraq (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1995), 19, http://
aupress.maxwell.af.mil/Books/b-55/heartstm.pdf.
2.
Joseph Sirosh, Risto Miikkulainen, and James A. Bednar, “Self-Organization
of Orientation Maps, Lateral Connections, and Dynamic Fields in the Primary
Visual Cortex,” in Lateral Interactions in the Cortex: Structure and Function,
ed. Joseph Sirosh, Risto Miikkulainen, and Yoonsuck Choe (Austin, TX: UTCS
Neural Networks Research Group, 1996), under “Dynamic Receptive Fields,
http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/web-pubs/htmlbook96/. (Chicago, 14.167)
3.
William T. Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, 2nd ed.,
rev. and corrected, vol. 1 (1869; Project Gutenberg, 2006), chap. 1, http://
www.gutenberg.org/les/4361/4361-h/p1.htm.
APPENDIX A 163
Note Citations
As an aid to readers, you may indicate that a work is also available in forms
other than the printed one:
4.
Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, eds., e Founders Constitution
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), also available online at http://
press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/ and as a CD-ROM.
Identify the format of non-Internet sources:
5.
omas H. Davenport and John C. Beck, e Attention Economy: Un-
derstanding the New Currency of Business (Harvard Business School Press,
2001), TK3 Reader e-book.
6.
Rodney J. Hicks, Nuclear Medicine: From the Center of Our Universe
(Victoria, Austral.: ICE T Multimedia, 1996), CD-ROM. (Chicago, 14.168)
7.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, ed. Tony Tanner (New York: Oxford Uni-
versity Press, 1998), Kindle edition, chap. 1.
Electronic journals
When citing electronic journals available online, include as much of the
information as can be determined that would also apply to the printed version
(author, title of article, volume, issue number, date, and so forth). Include the
URL (or, preferably, a DOI if available) as part of the citation. You need not
include the date accessed (e.g., “accessed 11 March 2011”) unless the material
has no date of publication or revision. If you do include an access date, place it
before the URL or DOI, preceded and followed by a comma. Include specic
page numbers if available; if not, add a descriptive locator (such as “e Con-
sequences of Fear” in note 2 below) if you think it would be helpful to readers.
1.
Gen Richard B. Myers, “A Word from the Chairman: Shi to a Global
Perspective, Air and Space Power Journal 17, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 5, http://www
.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj03/fal03/fal03.pdf.
2.
Mark Warr and Christopher G. Ellison, “Rethinking Social Reactions to
Crime: Personal and Altruistic Fear in Family Households,American Journal
of Sociology 106, no. 3 (2000), under “e Consequences of Fear,” http://www
.journals.uchicago.edu/AJS/journal/issues/v106n3/050125.html.
Online magazines
When citing online magazines, include as much of the information as can
be determined that would also apply to the printed version (author, title of
article, date, and so forth). Include the URL (or, preferably, a DOI if available)
as part of the citation. You need not include the date accessed (e.g., “accessed
11 March 2011”) unless the material has no date of publication or revision. If
you do include an access date, place it before the URL or DOI, preceded and
followed by a comma. Include specic page numbers if available.
164 APPENDIX A
Note Citations
1. Jessica Reaves, “A Weighty Issue: Ever-Fatter Kids,” interview with James
Rosen, Time, 14 March 2001, http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599
,102443,00.html.
2. Lawrence Osborne, “Poison Pen,” review of e Collaborator: e Trial
and Execution of Robert Brasillach, by Alice Kaplan, Salon, 29 March 2000,
http://www.salon.com/books/it/2000/03/29/kaplan/index.html.
Online newspapers, news services, and other news sites
When citing online newspapers or news articles posted by news services,
include as much of the information as can be determined that would also ap-
ply to the printed version (author, title of article, date, and so forth). Include
the URL (or, preferably, a DOI if available) as part of the citation. You need
not include the date accessed (e.g., “accessed 11 March 2011”) unless the ma-
terial has no date of publication or revision. If you do include an access date,
place it before the URL or DOI, preceded and followed by a comma.
1. Alison Mitchell and Frank Bruni, “Scars Still Raw, Bush Clashes with Mc-
Cain,New York Times, 25 March 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/25
/politics/25MCCA.html.
2. Richard Stenger, “Tiny Human-Borne Monitoring Device Sparks Pri-
vacy Fears,CNN, 20 December 1999, http://www.cnn.com/1999/TECH
/ptech/12/20/implant.device/.
3. Sami Aboudi, “Al Qaeda Releases Posthumous bin Laden Audio Re-
cording,” Reuters, 19 May 2011, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/19
/us-binladen-audio-idUSTRE74I0DJ20110519.
4. Robert Burns, “Chinese Military Chief s Visit Is First in 7 Years,” Associat-
ed Press, 16 May 2011, http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_US_CHINA
_MILITARY?SITE=NDBIS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT.
5. Donna Miles, “Gates Stresses U.S. Support Role in Libya,” American Forces
Press Service, 17 May 2011, http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123256207.
For citations whose URLs are no longer active or for citations to subscription
services, include only the URL of the home page.
6. Reuters, “Russian Blasts Kill 21, Injure More an 140,Yahoo! News, 24
March 2001, http://dailynews.yahoo.com/.
Databases
If you cite a resource such as a journal article from a database, include
a “stable” URL. Otherwise, include the name of the database and an iden-
tication number, the latter in parentheses, if one has been assigned to the
resource.
APPENDIX A 165
Note Citations
1. David M. Konisky, “Inequities in Enforcement? Environmental Justice
and Government Performance,Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
28, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 110, http://www.jstor.org/stable/i29738980.
2. Adam Clulow, “Statecra and Spectacle in East Asia: Studies in Taiwan-
Japan Relations,Japanese Studies 30, no. 1 (May 2010): 2, Academic Search
Premier (49085871).
Electronic mailing lists
Include the name of the list, date of the posting, and URL. You need not
include the date accessed (e.g., “accessed 11 March 2011”) unless the material
has no date of publication or revision. If you do include an access date, place
it before the URL, preceded and followed by a comma.
1. John Powell to Grapevine mailing list, 23 April 1998, no. 83, http://
www.electriceditors.net/grapevine/archives.php. (Chicago, 14.223)
Website content
Include author of the material (or owner of site if there is no author), title
of the page, title or owner of the site, and URL.
1. Evanston Public Library Board of Trustees, “Evanston Public Library Stra-
tegic Plan, 2000–2010: A Decade of Outreach,” Evanston Public Library, accessed
19 July 2008, http://www.epl.org/library/strategic-plan-oo.html. (Chicago, 15.51)
2. “Resolution Comparison: Reading License Plates and Headlines,” Fed-
eration of American Scientists, 30 December 1997, http://www.fas.org/irp
/imint/resolve5.htm.
3. Steve Herman, “Seoul Still Quiet aer Spying Debacle,” GlobalSecu-
rity.org, 4 May 2011, http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/2011
/intell-110504-voa01.htm.
4. Donatella Rovera, “Revenge Killings and Reckless Firing in Opposition-
Held Eastern Libya,” Amnesty International, 13 May 2011, http://livewire
.amnesty.org/2011/05/13/revenge-killings-and-reckless-ring-in-opposition
-held-eastern-libya/.
5. “Northrop Grumman Wins Task Orders for Peacekeeping Eorts in Af-
rica,” news release, Northrop Grumman, 4 January 2011, http://www.irconnect
.com/noc/press/pages/news_releases.html?d=210193.
6. Marc Selinger, “Apache, X-51A, Stephens Honored by Aviation Week,
Boeing, 2 May 2011, http://www.boeing.com/Features/2011/05/bds_laureate
_05_02.html.
Use descriptive phrases for informal sites.
166 APPENDIX A
Note Citations
7. Camp Taconic Alumni, 1955 photo gallery, http://www.taconicalumni
.org/1955.html.
8. Biography,” on Pete Townshends ocial website [or Web site], ac-
cessed 15 December 2001, http://www.petetownshend.co.uk/petet_bio.html.
If the site no longer exists, indicate that fact parenthetically at the end of the
citation.
9. Biography,” on Pete Townshends ocial website [or Web site], ac-
cessed 15 December 2001, http://www.petetownshend.co.uk/petet_bio.html
(site discontinued). (Chicago, 14.245)
Blogs
Include the author (even if the name is an alias) of the entry, title of the
entry in quotation marks, title of the blog in italics followed by the word
“blog” in parentheses, date, and URL. Comments on entries should include
the name of the person making the comment, date of the comment, the words
comment on,” and the blog entry.
1. John Eyster, “Should Religious Values Inuence Public Policies?,
GazetteXtra (blog), 20 February 2011, http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/we
-people/2011/feb/20/should-religious-values-inuence-public-policies/.
2. DavidG, 20 February 2011 (11:20 a.m.), comment on Greg Peck,
More oughts on Events at the Capitol,GazetteXtra (blog), 18 February
2011, http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/opinion-matters/2011/feb/18/more
-thoughts-on-events-at-the-capitol/.
3. Prounion, 25 February 2011 (8:41 a.m.), comment on Eyster, “Religious
Values.” [shortened form]
Reference works online
Cite online versions of encyclopedias and dictionaries in the same way you
would cite the printed versions. Include an access date with an undated entry.
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, s.v. “Sibelius, Jean,” accessed 19 July
2008, http://original.britannica.com/eb/article-9067596. (Chicago, 14.248)
2. e New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, s.v. “Sibelius, Jean,
by James Hepokoski, accessed 3 January 2002, http://www.grovemusic.com/.
Online multimedia
Include such information as the name of the composer, writer, performer,
or person responsible for the content; the title, in italics; the name of the re-
cording company or publisher; the identifying number of the recording; the
URL (or, preferably, a DOI if available); and the type of medium. You need
APPENDIX A 167
Note Citations
not include the date accessed (e.g., “accessed 11 March 2011”) unless the ma-
terial has no date of publication or revision. If you do include an access date,
place it before the URL or DOI, preceded and followed by a comma.
1. A. E. Weed, At the Foot of the Flatiron (American Mutoscope and Bio-
graph Co., 1903), 35 mm lm, from Library of Congress, e Life of a City:
Early Films of New York, 1898–1906, MPEG video, 2:19, http://lcweb2.loc
.gov/ammem/papr/nychome.html. (Chicago, 14.280)
Use the following form for sound or video les associated with a journal article:
2. “Ghost Dancing Music,Naraya no. 2, MP3 audio le, cited in Richard
W. Stoe et al., “Ghost Dancing the Grand Canyon,Current Anthropology
41, no. 1 (2000), doi:10.1086/300101. (Chicago, 14.198)
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM
1. Complete National Geographic: 110 Years of National Geographic Maga-
zine, Mindscape, 2000 CD-ROM.
2. e Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2003), CD-ROM, 1.4. (Chicago, 14.168)
Bibliographic Entries
APPENDIX B
Bibliographic Entries
APPENDIX B 171
Bibliographic Entries
Examples of several categories of bibliographic citations appear below. For
other examples, see the entry bibliography (5.1) and chapter 14 of the Chicago
Manual of Style (16th ed.).
Books
One author
Westmoreland, Gen William C. A Soldier Reports. Garden City, NY: Double-
day & Co., 1976.
Two authors
Masland, John W., and Laurence I. Radway. Soldiers and Scholars: Military Edu-
cation and National Policy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1957.
ree authors
Strausz-Hupe, Robert, William R. Kintner, and Stefan T. Possony. A Forward
Strategy for America. New York: Harper & Bros., 1961.
More than three authors
Pomper, Gerald, William G. Mayer, Marjorie Randon Hershey, and Kathleen
A. Frankovic. e Election of 1976. New York: McKay, 1977. [For 4 to 10
authors or editors, include all names; for more than 10 authors, list the
rst 7 followed by et al.]
No author given
Soviet Military Power. Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Government Printing Of-
ce, 1983.
Editor, compiler, or translator
Clausewitz, Carl von. On War. Edited and translated by Michael Howard and
Peter Paret. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976.
Goldberg, Alfred, ed. A History of the United States Air Force, 1907–1957.
Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand, 1957.
Mayer, J. P. Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America. Translated by George
Lawrence. New York: Doubleday & Co., 1969.
Multivolume works and series
Craven, Wesley Frank, and James Lea Cate, eds. e Army Air Forces in World
War II. 7 vols., 1948–1958. New imprint, Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Of-
ce of Air Force History, 1983.
172 APPENDIX B
Bibliographic Entries
———. e Army Air Forces in World War II. Vol. 2, Europe: Torch to Pointblank,
August 1942 to December 1943. 1949. New imprint, Washington, DC [or
D.C.]: Oce of Air Force History, 1983.
Trest, Warren A. Military Unity and National Policy: Some Past Eects and
Future Implications. CADRE Paper Special Series: e Future of the Air
Force, no. AU-ARI-CPSS-91-7. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press,
December 1991.
Association or institution as author
Gates Commission. e Report of the President’s Commission on an All-Vol-
unteer Armed Force. Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Government Printing
Oce, 1970.
Work of one author in a work edited by another
Warden, Col John A., III. “Air eory for the Twenty-First Century.” In Chal-
lenge and Response: Anticipating US Military Security Concerns, edited by
Dr. Karl P. Magyar, Lt Col Maris McCrabb, Lt Col Albert U. Mitchum Jr.,
and Dr. Lewis B. Ware, 351–75. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press,
August 1994.
Edition
Hazard, John N. e Soviet System of Government. 5th ed. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1980.
Reprint editions
Harris, Neil. e Artist in American Society: e Formative Years, 1790–1860.
1966. Reprint, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Periodicals
Volume number not shown
Congress Sends Nixon a Message.Newsweek, 19 November 1973, 39.
Volume number shown
Rosser, Col Richard F. “American Civil-Military Relations in the 1980s.Na-
val War College Review 24, no. 10 (June 1972): 14–20. [rst and last page
numbers of article]
APPENDIX B 173
Bibliographic Entries
Newspaper Items
Usually, bibliographies do not include newspaper citations. However, if you
wish to include a bibliographic entry, use the following format:
Konz, Antoinette. “District Results Released.Montgomery Advertiser, 11 Au-
gust 2005.
Encyclopedia Articles
Well-known reference books are usually not listed in bibliographies.
Historical Studies
Finney, Robert T. History of the Air Corps Tactical School, 1920–1940. USAF
Historical Study 100. Maxwell AFB, AL: USAF Historical Division, Air
University, 1955.
Sta Studies
Evaluation Division, Air University. To Analyze the USAF Publications Sys-
tem for Producing Manuals. Sta Study, 13 July 1948.
Staudenmaier, Col Herbert V. CONUS Aeromedical Evacuation Study. Sta
Study, 31 March 1983.
Unit and Sta Oce Histories
History. Deputy Chief of Sta for Plans and Programs, Directorate of Plans,
Headquarters USAF, July–December 1958.
———. Tactical Air Command, 1 July–31 December 1953.
Reports
Published
Erickson, John. e Soviet Military, Soviet Policy, and Soviet Politics. USSI Re-
port 73-3. Washington, DC [or D.C.]: United States Strategic Institute, 1973.
Management of Internet Names and Addresses. US government white paper.
Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Department of Commerce, June 1998.
Unpublished
Hungerford, Maj John B., Jr. “Organization for Military Space: A Historical
Perspective.” Research Report no. 82-1235. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air Com-
mand and Sta College, 1982.
174 APPENDIX B
Bibliographic Entries
Unpublished Papers
Betts, Richard K. “Soldiers, Statesmen, and Resort to Force: American Mili-
tary Inuence in Crisis Decisions, 1945–1976.” PhD diss., Harvard Uni-
versity, 1975.
Ross, Dorothy. “e Irish-Catholic Immigrant, 1880–1900: A Study in Social
Mobility.” Masters thesis, Columbia University, n.d.
omas, P. “Utilization of Enlisted Women in the Military.” Paper presented
at the RAND Conference on Defense Manpower. Santa Monica, CA, Feb-
ruary 1976.
Manuscript Collections
Dinkel, Joseph. Description of Louis Agassiz written at the request of Elizabeth
Cary Agassiz. Agassiz Papers. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Egmont Manuscripts. Phillipps Collection. University of Georgia Library.
[Specic items are not included in a bibliography unless only one item
from a collection is cited.]
House, Edward M. Papers. Yale University Library.
Johnson, Alvin. Memorandum, 1937. File 36. Horace Kallen Papers. YIVO
Institute, New York.
Legal Citations
AT&T Corporation v. Iowa Utilities. In United States Supreme Court Reports.
Vol. 525, 1999.
Lugosi v. Universal. In California Reports. 3d [or 3rd] series. Vol. 25. Califor-
nia Supreme Court, 1976.
Public Documents
Bills, reports, and miscellaneous documents
House. A Bill to Require Passenger-Carrying Motor Vehicles Purchased for Use
by the Federal Government to Meet Certain Safety Standards. 86th Cong.,
1st sess., 1959. HR 1341.
Senate. Documents on the International Aspects of the Exploration and Use of
Outer Space, 1954–1962. 88th Cong., 1st sess., 1963. S. Doc. 18.
———. Report of the Federal Trade Commission on Utility Corporations. 70th
Cong., 1st sess., 1935. S. Doc. 92.
Hearings
Senate. Study of Air Power: Hearings before the Subcommittee on the Air Force of
the Committee on Armed Services. 84th Cong., 2d [or 2nd] sess., 1956.
APPENDIX B 175
Bibliographic Entries
Congressional bills and resolutions
Atomic Energy Act of 1946. Public Law 585. 79th Cong., 2d [or 2nd] sess., 1
August 1946.
———. US Statutes at Large 60 (1947): 755–75.
Declaratory Judgment Act. US Code. Vol. 28, secs. 2201–2 (1952).
Food Security Act of 1985. HR 2100. 99th Cong., 1st sess., Congressional Re-
cord, 131 (8 October 1985): H8461.
Executive department documents
Department of Defense. Prole of American Youth: 1980 Administration of the
Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Of-
ce of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower, Reserve Aairs and
Logistics), March 1982.
Presidential proclamations, executive orders, other documents
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States:
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957. Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Government
Printing Oce, 1958.
Executive Order 9877. Functions of the Armed Services, 26 July 1947.
President. Proclamation. “Supplemental Quota on Imports of Long-Staple
Cotton.Federal Register 15, no. 196 (10 October 1950): 127. Microche.
Classied Sources
If your document will be available to the general public, do not cite classied
information or the titles of classied documents (whether in the text, notes,
bibliography, etc.). If arrangements have been made to publish your work as
a classied document, then any references you make to other classied docu-
ments should include the classication of the title (immediately following the
title) and the overall classication of the document (at the end of the publica-
tion data), as follows (note that U=unclassied):
[originating oce]. [title of document] (U). Supporting document [number
of supporting document]. ([level of classication, e.g., Top Secret])
[name of author (last name rst)]. [title of document] (U). [place of publica-
tion]: [publisher], [date]. ([level of classication, e.g., Secret])
[document number]. [title of document] (U), [date]. ([level of classication,
e.g., Secret])
176 APPENDIX B
Bibliographic Entries
Declassied Sources
Central Intelligence Agency. National Intelligence Estimate Number 11-5-57.
Washington, DC [or D.C.]: Central Intelligence Agency, 1957. Document
is now declassied.
Letters, E-Mails, and Endorsements
Culver, Lt Col C. C. To chief of Air Corps. Letter, 9 June 1928. 1st end. [en-
dorsement] Maj L. W. McIntosh, executive, Oce of the Chief of Air
Corps. To commandant, Air Corps Tactical School, 1 September 1928.
Kilner, Maj W. G., executive, Oce of Chief of Air Service. To commandant,
Air Service Tactical School. Letter. Subject: Proposed Revision of the Pol-
icy of the Army and Navy Relating to Aircra, 12 April 1925.
Smith, Maj John, chief, Oce of Public Aairs, Maxwell AFB, AL. To the au-
thor. E-mail, 20 November 2005.
Memorandums
Regular memorandum
Momyer, Col William W., deputy commandant for evaluation, Air War Col-
lege. To Maj Gen John DeF. Barker, deputy commanding general, Air
University. Memorandum. Subject: Progress of the Manual Program, 17
September 1952.
Dra memorandum
Chief, Air Corps. To chief of sta, Army. Dra memorandum, 28 March 1938.
Memorandum of understanding
Secretary of the Army. To secretary of the Air Force. Memorandum of under-
standing, 2 October 1951.
Memorandum for record
Twining, Gen Nathan F., vice-chief of sta, US Air Force. Memorandum for
record, 17 November 1950.
Messages
Message. 281415Z OCT 90. US Air Force. To commanding general, Far East
Air Forces, 28 October 1990.
APPENDIX B 177
Bibliographic Entries
Doctrine Publications, Manuals,
Instructions, Directives, and Others
Air Force Instruction (AFI) 90-901. Operational Risk Management, 1 April
2000.
Air Force Manual (AFMAN) 36-505. Skill Coding, 1 August 1996.
Air Force Pamphlet (AFPAM) 36-106. Supervisor’s Records, 20 December
1993.
Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education. “Annex
3-72, Nuclear Operations,” 14 December 2011.
https://doctrine.af.mil/download.jsp?lename=Volume-2-Leadership.pdf.
———.Volume I, Basic Doctrine, 14 October 2011. https://doctrine.af.mil
/download.jsp?lename=Volume-1-Basic-Doctrine.pdf.
Department of Defense (DOD) Directive 5015.2. DOD Records Management
Program, 6 March 2000.
Sources Cited/Quoted in Another Source
McNamara, Robert, secretary of defense. To Cong. Robert Miller. Letter, 3
November 1961. In House. Sundry Legislation Aecting the Naval and
Military Establishment, 1963: Hearings before the Committee on Armed
Services. 88th Cong., 1st sess., 1963.
Diaries, Minutes, Chronologies, Summaries,
Digests, Notes, and So Forth
Barbee, Lt Col Andrew C., Policy and Plans Group. Air Sta Summary Sheet.
Report of Air Force Support of National Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
tration, 20 March 1967.
Brieng. 6127th Air Terminal Group. Subject: Air Terminal Detachments in
Korea, 1 March 1951.
Chronology. Astronautics and Aeronautics (NASA, 1966).
Daily Sta Digest. Headquarters USAF, 13 November 1967.
Field Manual (FM) 90-14. “Rear Battle.” Final dra, 19 November 1984.
Gross, Brig Gen Mervin E., chief, Requirements Division, Aviation Section,
Signal Corps, Oce of the Chief of Research, Army Air Forces. Record
and Routing (R&R) sheet. Subject: Centralization of Certain Literature-
Producing Functions at Orlando, FL, 27 November 1944.
Leahy, Fleet Adm William D. Diary. William D. Leahy Papers. Manuscript
Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC [or D.C.].
Minutes. War Department Board of Ordnance and Fortication, 24 October
1905. In Jones Aviation Chronology, 1900–1906.
Notes. Fih Air Force Planning Conference, 12 December 1951.
178 APPENDIX B
Bibliographic Entries
Lectures and Addresses
LeMay, Gen Curtis E., chief of sta, US Air Force. Address. Air Force Associa-
tion Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 21 September 1961.
Patrick, Maj Gen Mason M. “e Army Air Service.” Lecture. Army War Col-
lege, Carlisle Barracks, PA, 9 November 1925.
Wheeler, Gen Earle G. Graduation address. Industrial College of the Armed
Forces, Washington, DC [or D.C.], 11 June 1963.
Interviews
It is not necessary to include interviews in a bibliography. You may wish to
include a transcript of an interview, however.
Singleton, Lt Col Jerry A. Interview by Dr. James C. Hasdor, 30 October
1992. Transcript. US Air Force Academy Library. Colorado Springs, CO.
Video Recordings
Massey, Morris. What You Are Is. CBS-Fox video. 30 min., 1983. Videocassette.
Mihalyi, Louis J. Landscapes of Zambia, Central Africa. Santa Barbara, CA:
Visual Education, 1975. Slides.
Translation Services
Agafonov, Sergey. “Japan in Russias Financial Market: Bank of Tokyo to Open
in Moscow.Izvestiya, 9 June 1992. In FBIS [Foreign Broadcast Informa-
tion Service] Report: Central Eurasia. FBIS-USR-92-079, 29 June 1992.
Electronic Publications
Electronic books
Davenport, omas H., and John C. Beck. e Attention Economy: Under-
standing the New Currency of Business. Harvard Business School Press,
2001. TK3 Reader e-book.
Hicks, R. J. Nuclear Medicine, from the Center of Our Universe. Victoria, Aus-
tral.: ICE T Multimedia, 1996. CD-ROM.
Sirosh, J., R. Miikkulainen, and J. A. Bednar. “Self-Organization of Orien-
tation Maps, Lateral Connections, and Dynamic Fields in the Primary
Visual Cortex.” In Lateral Interactions in the Cortex: Structure and Func-
tion, ed. J. Sirosh, R. Miikkulainen, and Y. Choe. Austin, TX: UTCS Neu-
ral Networks Research Group, 1996. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/nn
/web-pubs/htmlbook96/.
APPENDIX B 17 9
Bibliographic Entries
Electronic journals
Myers, Gen Richard B. “A Word from the Chairman: Shi to a Global Per-
spective. Air and Space Power Journal 17, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 5–10. http://
www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj03/fal03/fal03.pdf.
Online magazines
Reaves, Jessica. “A Weighty Issue: Ever-Fatter Kids.” Interview with James
Rosen. Time, 14 March 2001. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article
/0,8599,102443,00.html.
Online newspapers, news services, and other news sites
Mitchell, Alison, and Frank Bruni. “Scars Still Raw, Bush Clashes with McCain.
New York Times, 25 March 2001. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/25
/politics/25MCCA.html.
Reuters. “Russian Blasts Kill 21, Injure More an 140.Yahoo! News, 24
March 2001. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/.
Stenger, Richard. “Tiny Human-Borne Monitoring Device Sparks Privacy
Fears.CNN, 20 December 1999. http://www.cnn.com/1999/TECH/ptech
/12/20/implant.device/.
Databases
Clulow, Adam. “Statecra and Spectacle in East Asia: Studies in Taiwan-Japan
Relations.Japanese Studies 30, no. 1 (May 2010): 1–2. Academic Search
Premier (49085871).
Konisky, David M. “Inequities in Enforcement? Environmental Justice and
Government Performance.Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
28, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 102–21. http://www.jstor.org/stable/i29738980.
Electronic mailing lists
Powell, John. E-mail to Grapevine mailing list, 23 April 1998. http://www
.electriceditors.net/grapevine/issues/83.txt.
Site content
Evanston Public Library Board of Trustees. “Evanston Public Library Stra-
tegic Plan, 2000–2010: A Decade of Outreach.” Evanston Public Library.
Accessed 18 July 2002. http://www.epl.org/library/strategic-plan-oo.html.
Federation of American Scientists. “Resolution Comparison: Reading License
Plates and Headlines.” http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/resolve5.htm.
Pete Townshends ocial website (or Web site). “Biography.” http://www.pete
townshend.co.uk/petet_bio.html.
180 APPENDIX B
Bibliographic Entries
Blogs
Eyster, John. “Should Religious Values Inuence Public Policies?” GazetteX-
tra (blog), 20 February 2011. http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/we-people
/2011/feb/20/should-religious-values-inuence-public-policies/.
Online multimedia
Weed, A. E. At the Foot of the Flatiron. American Mutoscope and Biograph
Co., 1903; 2 min., 19 sec.; 35 mm. From Library of Congress, e Life of
a City: Early Films of New York, 1898–1906. MPEG. Accessed 14 August
2001. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/papr/nychome.html.
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM
Complete National Geographic: 110 Years of National Geographic Magazine.
CD-ROM. Mindscape, 2000.
Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. CD-ROM, version 2.0. Oxford University
Press.
Copyright
APPENDIX C
Copyright
APPENDIX C 183
Copyright
In the United States, an “original work of authorship” in tangible form
(including electronic formats) is protected by US copyright laws regardless
of whether or not the work is published and whether or not it is registered
with the United States Copyright Oce. Original works of authorship include
written manuscripts and other literary works, as well as original graphic or
pictorial material, visual art, audiovisual works, motion pictures, and sound
recordings. e owner of a copyright has exclusive rights of reproduction (in-
cluding digital means), adaptation, publication, performance, and display of
the work (including online display). If the work is to be published, the owner
may transfer some or all of these rights to the publisher by formal agreement.
For that reason, if you intend to use another persons work (e.g., text, graphs,
tables, photographs, paintings, lm clips, music clips, etc.) in a work of your
own, you must obtain written permission from the copyright owner, whether
individual or publisher. Two important exceptions to this principle follow.
First, you need not obtain permission if the work is in the public domain.
Such works are considered public property and may be used by anyone. A
work of the United States government (dened as a work prepared by an of-
cer or employee of the United States government as part of that persons o-
cial duties) is in the public domain, as is a work whose copyright has expired.
(For a discussion of the duration of copyright, see the Chicago Manual of Style
[16th ed.], 4.19–32.)
Second, you need not obtain permission if you use material in accordance
with the doctrine of fair use. is doctrine allows you to use another persons
work for purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholar-
ship, or research. For example, you may quote short passages of copyrighted
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porting your own work. e reproduction of copyrighted pictorial material
for critical purposes (e.g., use of a photograph to facilitate commentary on
techniques of photographic composition) may also be considered fair use.
However, the determination that an illustration or graphic falls under fair
use is less straightforward than it is for text, and many presses, including AU
Press, require permission for all illustrations to be reproduced in their pub-
lications. In determining whether a use is fair, courts consider the following
four factors:
1. e purpose and character of the use, including whether such use
is of a commercial nature or is for nonprot educational purposes.
Commercial use generally is presumed to be unfair. On the other
hand, nonprot educational use is not deemed automatically to
be fair, but it is more likely to be so treated, particularly if a public
benet results from the use.
184 APPENDIX C
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Fictional works are aorded more protection than factual ones.
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the copyrighted work as a whole. e doctrine of fair use does not
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INDEX
A4/6 (Education Logistics and Communi-
cations), 2.1
AAA (antiaircra artillery), 2.2
AAM (air-to-air missile), 2.3
a/an, 1.1
AB (air base), 2.4
abbreviations, 2.0
ABCCC (airborne battleeld command and
control center), 2.5
ABD (air base defense), 2.6
ABL (airborne laser), 2.7
ABM (antiballistic missile), 2.8
above, 1.2
academic courses, 4.1
academic degrees and titles, 2.9
ACC (Air Combat Command), 2.10
ACCE (air component coordination ele-
ment), 2.11
access date, 1.3
ACSC (Air Command and Sta College), 2.12
active Air Force, 4.1.1
active duty (adj., n.), 4.1.2
active voice, 3.1.1
acts, 4.1.3
AD (anno Domini), 2.13, 4.1.4
ADCON (administrative control), 2.14
administration, 4.1.5
ADVON (advanced echelon), 2.15
AEF (air and space expeditionary force), 2.16
AEG (air expeditionary group), 2.17
aerospace, 1.4
AETC (Air Education and Training Com-
mand), 2.18
AETF (air and space expeditionary task
force), 2.19
AEW (airborne early warning; air and space
expeditionary wing), 2.20
AFB (Air Force base), 2.21
AFCC (Air Force component commander),
2.22
AFCENT (US Air Forces Central), 2.23
AFCERT (Air Force computer emergency
response team), 2.24
AFDC (Air Force Doctrine Center), 2.25
AFFOR (Air Force forces), 2.27
AFHRA (Air Force Historical Research
Agency), 2.28
AFI (Air Force instruction), 2.29
AFIT (Air Force Institute of Technology),
2.30
AFLC (Air Force Logistics Command), 2.31
AFLNO (Air Force liaison ocer), 2.32
AFMAN (Air Force manual), 2.33
AFMC (Air Force Materiel Command), 2.34
AFOATS (Air Force Ocer Accession and
Training Schools), 2.35
AFOSI (Air Force Oce of Special Investi-
gations), 2.36
AFPAM (Air Force pamphlet), 2.37
AFPD (Air Force policy directive), 2.38
AFRC (Air Force Reserve Command), 2.39
AFRI (Air Force Research Institute), 2.40
African-American, 4.2.1
Afro-American, 4.2.2
AFROTC (Air Force Reserve Ocer Train-
ing Corps), 2.41
AFSOC (Air Force Special Operations
Command), 2.42
AFSPC (Air Force Space Command), 2.43
AFTTP (Air Force tactics, techniques, and
procedures), 2.44
AF/XO (Deputy Chief of Sta for Plans and
Operations, USAF), 2.45
AF/XOI (Air Force Director of Intelligence,
Surveillance, and Reconnaissance), 2.46
agency, 4.1.6
AI (air interdiction), 2.47
AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics), 2.48
AIDS (acquired immune deciency syn-
drome), 2.49
aiming point, 4.2.3
air and space, 1.8
air base, 4.1.7, 4.2.4
air chief marshal, 4.2.5
aircra, 1.5, 4.4.1
aircrew, 4.2.6
airdrop (n.), 4.2.7
air-drop (v.), 4.2.8
air-droppable (adj.), 4.2.9
Index
188 INDEX
INDEX
aireld, 4.2.10
air force (numbered), 4.3.1
air force, 1.6, 4.1.8
Air Force, 1.67
Air Force base, 4.1.9
Air Force One, 4.1.10
Air Force–wide, 1.7
airframe, 4.2.11
airhead, 4.2.12
airland, 4.2.13
AirLand Battle, 4.1.11, 4.2.14
air lane, 4.2.15
airli (n., v.), 4.2.16
Airman, Airmen, 4.1.12, 4.2.17
air marshal, 4.2.18
air-minded, 4.2.19
air-mindedness, 4.2.20
airmobile, 4.2.21
airpower, 4.2.22
airspace, 4.2.23
airspeed, 4.2.24
Air Sta, 4.1.13
air strike, 4.2.25
airstrip, 4.2.26
air vice-marshal, 4.2.27
airworthiness, 4.2.28
airworthy, 4.2.29
ALCM (air launched cruise missile), 2.50
allied, 4.1.14
allies, 4.1.14
ALO (air liaison ocer), 2.51
al-Qaeda, 4.2.30
a.m. (ante meridiem [before noon]), 2.52,
4.1.15
AMC (Air Mobility Command), 2.53
amendments, 4.1.3, 4.1.16
ampersand (&), 2.54
AMRAAM (advanced medium-range air-
to-air missile), 2.55
and/or, 1.9
ANG (Air National Guard), 2.56
antecedents, 3.1.2
anti- (prex), 4.2.31
ANZUS (Australia–New Zealand–United
States Treaty), 2.57
AO (area of operations), 2.58
AOC (air operations center; air and space
operations center [USAF]), 2.59
AOR (area of responsibility), 2.60
apostrophe, 3.2.1
appendix, 4.1.17
appositives, 3.1.3
Arabic terms and names, 1.10
ARM (antiradiation missile), 2.61
armed forces, 4.1.18
arms-control (adj.), 1.12
arms control (n.), 1.11
army, 4.1.19
Army, 1.68
ARNG (Army National Guard), 2.62
art, 1.13
article (part of a document), 4.1.20
artwork, 1.13
ASAP (as soon as possible), 2.63
ASAT (antisatellite weapon), 2.64
ASBC (Air and Space Basic Course), 2.65
associates degree, 4.1.21
ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System), 2.66
ATAF (Allied Tactical Air Force [NATO]), 2.67
ATO (air tasking order), 2.68
AU (Air University), 2.69
AUL (Air University Library), 2.70
AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control
System), 2.71
AWC (Air War College), 2.72
awkward structure of modication, 3.1.4
AWOL (absent without leave), 2.73
Baath Party, 4.2.32
bachelors degree, 4.1.22
back matter, 1.14
base, 2.4, 2.21
battalion, 4.1.23
battle, 4.1.24
battleeld, 4.2.33
Battleeld Airman/Airmen, 4.1.25
battlefront, 4.2.34
battleground, 4.2.35
battle line, 4.2.36
battlespace, 4.2.37
BC (before Christ), 2.75, 4.1.26
BCE (before the common era), 2.76
BDA (battle damage assessment), 2.77
beddown (n.), 4.2.38
bed down (v.), 4.2.39
below, 1.15
INDEX 189
INDEX
Berlin airli, 4.1.27
Berlin Wall, 4.1.28
biannual, 1.16
bibliography, 5.1
biennial, 1.16
bills (congressional), 4.1.3, 4.1.29
bimonthly, 1.17
bin Laden, Osama, 4.2.40
biplane, 4.2.41
biweekly, 1.18
black (people), 1.19, 4.1.30
block quotations, 5.2
blogs, titles of, 4.4
BMD (ballistic missile defense), 2.78
BMDO (Ballistic Missile Defense Organiza-
tion), 2.79
board, 4.1.31
Bosnian crisis, 4.1.32
BPC (building partner/partnership capac-
ity), 2.80
BRAC (base realignment and closure), 2.81
brackets, 3.2.2
Brookings Institution, 4.2.42
building names, 4.1.33
buildup (n.), 4.2.43
build up (v.), 4.2.44
bullets, 3.2.3
bureau, 4.1.34
BVR (beyond visual range), 2.82
by-product, 4.2.45
C2 (command and control), 2.83
C3 (command, control, and communica-
tions), 2.84
C3I (command, control, communications,
and intelligence), 2.85
C4 (command, control, communications,
and computers), 2.86
C4I (command, control, communications,
computers, and intelligence), 2.87
C4ISR (command, control, communica-
tions, computers, intelligence, surveil-
lance, and reconnaissance), 2.88
CALCM (conventional air-launched cruise
missile), 2.89
caliber (of weapons), 4.3.2
call sign (n.), 4.2.46
CAOC (combat [or combined] air opera-
tions center), 2.90
CAP (Civil Air Patrol; combat air patrol;
crisis action planning), 2.91
capitalization, 4.1
caption, 1.20
CAS (close air support), 2.92
CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological,
and nuclear), 2.93
CBU (cluster bomb unit), 2.94
CBW (chemical and biological warfare),
2.95
CCAF (Community College of the Air
Force), 2.96
CCDR (combatant commander), 2.97
CE (of the common era), 2.98
cease-re, 4.2.47
centuries and decades, 4.3.3
CEP (circular error probable), 2.99
CFACC (combined force air component
commander), 2.100
chapter (numbers), 4.3.4
chapter, 2.101
chief of sta, 4.1.35
choke point, 4.2.48
CHOP (change of operational control),
2.102
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 2.103
CINC (commander in chief), 2.104
CIS (Commonwealth of Independent
States), 2.105
citizen-soldier, 4.2.49
civil service, 4.1.36
CJCS (chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Sta),
2.106
classied sources, 1.21, 5.3
click, 1.22
CNA (computer network attack), 2.107
CND (computer network defense), 2.108
CNO (chief of naval operations), 2.109
CO (commanding ocer), 2.110
coalition forces, 4.1.37
COC (combat operations center), 2.111
COCOM (combatant command), 2.112
code name (n.), 4.2.50
code-name (v.), 4.2.51
COG (center of gravity), 2.113
COIN (counterinsurgency), 2.114
190 INDEX
INDEX
cold war or Cold War, 4.1.38
colon, 3.2.4
COMAFFOR (commander, Air Force
forces), 2.115
comma, 3.2.5
comma splice, 3.1.5
committee, 4.1.39
communism, 4.1.40
communist, 4.1.41
Communist bloc, 4.1.42
Communist Party, 4.1.43
comparisons, 3.1.6
compound words, 4.2.52
COMPUSEC (computer security), 2.116
COMSAT (communications satellite), 2.117
Congress, 4.1.44
congressional, 4.1.45
congressional committees and subcommit-
tees, 4.1.46
congressman, 4.1.47
congresswoman, 4.1.47
CONOPS (concept of operations), 2.118
constitutional amendments, 4.1.48
CONUS (continental United States), 2.119
copilot, 4.2.53
copyright, 1.23
Corps, the, 1.69
cost-eective, 4.2.54
cost-eectiveness, 4.2.55
counter- (prex), 4.2.56
countries, spelling of, 4.2.57
courses, academic, 4.1.49
court-martial (n., v.), 3.1.7, 4.2.58
courts-martial (n., plural), 3.1.7, 4.2.58
coworker, 4.2.59
CRAF (Civil Reserve Air Fleet), 2.120
credit line, 5.4
crew member, 4.2.60
cross-train (v.), 4.2.61
CSAF (chief of sta, United States Air
Force), 2.121
CSAR (combat search and rescue), 2.122
Cuban missile crisis, 4.1.50
currency, 4.3.5
Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine
Development and Education, 2.25
CV (aircra carrier; carrier), 2.123
CW (chemical warfare), 2.124
cyber- (prex), 4.2.62
dangling modier, 3.1.8
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Proj-
ects Agency), 2.125
dash, 3.2.6
data, 3.1.9
database, 4.2.63
data-link (adj., v.), 4.2.65
data link (n.), 4.2.64
dates, 1.24, 4.3.6
daytime, 4.2.66
DCGS (distributed common ground/sur-
face system), 2.127
DC or D.C. (District of Columbia), 2.126
D-day (adj., n.), 4.2.67
DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration),
2.128
decades, 4.3.7
decision maker, 4.2.68
decision-making (adj.), 4.2.70
decision making (n.), 4.2.69
de-emphasize, 4.2.71
DEFCON (defense readiness condition),
2.129
democracy, 4.1.51
Democrat(s) (member[s] of the party),
4.1.51
Democratic Party, 4.1.51
department, 4.1
DFAS (Defense Finance and Accounting
Service), 2.130
DHS (Department of Homeland Security),
2.131
DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency), 2.132
directions, 4.1.53
director, directorate, 4.1.54
direct quotations, 1.25
DIRMOBFOR (director of mobility forces),
2.133
DIRSPACEFOR (director of space forces
[USAF]), 2.134
display dots, 4.5
dive-bomb (v.), 4.2.72
dive-bomber, 4.2.73
DMPI (designated [or desired] mean point
of impact), 2.135
INDEX 191
INDEX
DMSP (Defense Meteorological Satellite
Program), 2.136
DMZ (demilitarized zone), 2.137
doctorate, 4.1.55
documentation, 5.0
DOD (Department of Defense), 2.139
DODD (Department of Defense directive),
2.140
DODI (Department of Defense instruc-
tion), 2.141
DOI (digital object identier), 2.142
dollars, 4.3.8
dot-com, 1.26
downsize (v.), 4.2.74
Dr. (doctor), 2.143
drawdown (n.), 4.2.75
draw down (v.), 4.2.76
DRU (direct reporting unit), 2.144
DSN (Defense Switched Network), 2.145
EAF (expeditionary air and space force),
2.146
earth, 4.1.56
Earth satellites, 4.3.9, 4.4.3
Earth station, 4.1.57
East Berlin, 1.27
East Germany, 1.27
EBO (eects-based operation), 2.147
EELV (evolved expendable launch vehicle),
2.148
e.g. (for example), 2.149
ELINT (electronic intelligence), 2.150
ellipses, 3.2.7
e-mail (n., sing. and pl.; v.), 4.1.58, 4.2.77
e-mailer (n.), 4.1.59, 4.2.78
em dash, 3.2.6
EMP (electromagnetic pulse), 2.151
emphasis, 4.4.4
empire, 4.1.60
en dash, 3.2.6
endgame, 4.2.79
endnotes, 4.2.80
end-state (adj.), 4.2.82
end state (n.), 4.2.81
en masse, 4.2.83
en route (adj., adv.), 4.2.84
ensure, 4.2.85
entitle, 1.28
EO (executive order), 2.152
epigraph, 1.29, 4.4.5
et al. (and others), 2.153
etc. (and so forth), 2.154
EU (European Union), 2.155
EW (early warning; electronic warfare),
2.156
exercises, 4.1.61
F2T2EA (nd, x, track, target, engage, and
assess), 2.157
FAC (forward air controller), 2.158
FAC(A) (forward air controller [airborne]),
2.159
fact nder, 4.2.86
fact-nding, 4.2.87
fait accompli (sing.), faits accomplis (pl.),
4.2.88
FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia), 2.160
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 2.161
FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Ser-
vice), 2.162
FEBA (forward edge of the battle area),
2.163
federal, 4.1.62
federal government, 4.1.62, 4.1.72
feedback, 4.2.89
FEMA (Federal Emergency Management
Agency), 2.164
FID (foreign internal defense), 2.165
eld marshal, 4.2.90
eld test (n.), 4.2.91
eld-test (v.), 4.2.92
ghter-bomber, 4.2.93
ghter pilot, 4.2.94
gures, 1.30, 1.36, 4.3.10
rearm, 4.2.95
rebomb (n., v.), 4.2.96
repower, 4.2.97
rst, 3.1.10
rsthand (adj., adv.), 4.2.98
rstly, 3.1.10
First World War, 1.79
ight crew, 4.2.99
ight-line (adj.), 4.2.101
ight line (n.), 4.2.100
ight path, 4.2.102
192 INDEX
INDEX
ight suit, 4.2.103
ight-test (v.), 4.2.104
FLIR (forward-looking infrared), 2.166
oor leader, 4.1.63
FLOT (forward line of own troops), 2.167
FM (eld manual [Army]), 2.168
FMV (full motion video), 2.169
FOA (eld operating agency), 2.170
FOB (forward operating/operations base),
2.171
FOIA (Freedom of Information Act), 2.172
followership, 4.2.105
follow-on (n.), 4.2.106
follow-up (n.), 4.2.107
follow up (v.), 4.2.108
footnote, 4.2.109
foreign military services, 4.1.64
foreign terms, 4.4.6
foreword, 1.31, 4.2.110
forms (titles of), 4.4.7
fort, 4.1.65
FOUO (for ocial use only), 2.173
FP (force protection), 2.174
FPCON (force protection condition), 2.175
fractions, 4.3.11
FRAG (fragmentation code), 2.176
free world or Free World, 4.1.66
frequencies, 2.0, 2.386
frontline (adj.), 4.2.112
front line (n.), 4.2.111
front matter, 1.32
FS (ghter squadron), 2.178
FSCL (re support coordination line), 2.179
führer or fuehrer, 4.1.67, 4.2.113
full-time (adj., adv.), 4.2.115
full time (n.), 4.2.114
FW (ghter wing), 2.180
FY (scal year), 2.181
Gadha, Mu‘ammar, 4.2.116
GAO (Government Accountability Oce),
2.182
GBU (guided bomb unit), 2.183
GCA (ground controlled approach), 2.184
GCI (ground control intercept), 2.185
general (military rank), 2.186, 4.1.68
Geneva convention(s), 4.1.69
GEO (geosynchronous Earth orbit), 2.187
geo- (prex), 4.2.117
g-force, 2.188, 4.1.70, 4.2.118
GHz (gigahertz), 2.189
GIG (Global Information Grid), 2.190
GLCM (ground launched cruise missile),
2.191
global war on terrorism (GWOT), 4.1.71
glossary, 1.33
GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), 2.192
GO (general order), 2.193
government, 4.1.72
GPS (Global Positioning System), 2.194
Great War, 1.79
group, 4.1.73
GSA (General Services Administration),
2.195
G suit, 2.196, 4.1.74, 4.2.119
Gulf War, 4.1.75
GWOT (global war on terrorism), 2.197
half- (prex), 4.2.120
half century, 4.2.121
HARM (high-speed antiradiation missile),
2.198
headings, 1.34
headquarters, 4.1.76
HF (high frequency), 2.199
H-hour (specic time an operation or exer-
cise begins), 2.200
high- (prex), 4.2.122
highway, 4.1.77
highway (numbered), 4.3.12
HIV (human immunodeciency virus),
2.201
HMMWV (high mobility multipurpose
wheeled vehicle), 2.202
HMW (health, morale, and welfare), 2.203
Ho Chi Minh Trail, 4.1.78
home page, 4.2.123
house (Congress), 4.1.79
HRO (humanitarian relief organization),
2.204
HUD (head-up display), 2.205
HUMINT (human intelligence), 2.206
HUMRO (humanitarian relief operation),
2.207
hundreds, 4.3.13
Hussein, Saddam, 4.2.124
INDEX 193
INDEX
hyphenated compound words, 3.2.8
Hz (hertz), 2.208
I, 3.1.14
IA (information assurance), 2.209
IADS (integrated air defense system), 2.210
ibid. (in the same place), 2.211
ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile),
2.212
idem (the same), 1.35
i.e. (that is), 2.213
IED (improvised explosive device), 2.214
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers), 2.215
IFF (identication, friend or foe), 2.216
IG (inspector general), 2.217
ill- , 4.2.125
illustrations, 1.36
IMA (individual mobilization augmentee),
2.218
IMINT (imagery intelligence), 2.219
important, 3.1.11
importantly, 3.1.11
inbrief (v.), 4.2.126
inbrieng (n., v.), 4.2.127
in-depth (adj.), 4.2.129
in depth (adv.), 4.2.128
index, 1.37
INFOCON (information operations condi-
tion), 2.220
information age, 4.1.80
INFOSEC (information security), 2.221
in-process (v.), 4.2.130
INS (inertial navigation system), 2.222
instructions, 2.138, 4.4.8
insure, 4.2.131
INTELSAT (International Telecommunica-
tions Satellite Organization), 2.223
inter- (prex), 4.2.132
international date line, 4.1.81
Internet, 4.1.82
Internet address, 1.38
in-theater (adj., adv.), 4.2.133
IO (information operations), 2.224
I/O (input/output), 2.225
IOC (initial operational capability), 2.226
IOS (International Ocer School), 2.227
IP (internet protocol), 2.228
IR (infrared), 2.229
iron curtain, 4.1.83
ISAF (International Security Assistance
Force), 2.230
Islam (n.), Islamic (adj.), 1.39
Islamism (n.), 1.40
Islamist (n.), 1.41
ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and recon-
naissance), 2.231
IT (information technology), 2.232
it, 3.1.12
italics, 4.4
its and its, 3.1.13
I&W (indications and warning), 2.234
IW (irregular warfare), 2.233
J-1 (manpower and personnel directorate of
a joint sta), 2.235
J-2 (intelligence directorate of a joint sta),
2.236
J-3 (operations directorate of a joint sta),
2.237
J-4 (logistics directorate of a joint sta),
2.238
J-5 (plans directorate of a joint sta), 2.239
J-6 (communications system directorate of a
joint sta), 2.240
J-7 (operational plans and interoperability
directorate of a joint sta), 2.241
J-8 (force structure, resource, and assess-
ment directorate of a joint sta), 2.242
J-9 (civil-military operations directorate of a
joint sta), 2.243
JAG (judge advocate general), 2.244
JAOC (joint air operations center), 2.245
JAOP (joint air operations plan), 2.246
JASSM (joint air-to-surface stando mis-
sile), 2.247
JCS (Joint Chiefs of Sta), 2.248
JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition), 2.249
jeep, 4.1.84
JFACC (joint force air component com-
mander), 2.250
JFC (joint force commander), 2.251
JFLCC (joint force land component com-
mander), 2.252
JFMCC (joint force maritime component
commander), 2.253
194 INDEX
INDEX
JFSOCC (joint force special operations
component commander), 2.254
JOC (joint operations center), 2.255
joint doctrine, 4.1.85
Joint Sta, 4.1.86
JOPES (Joint Operation Planning and
Execution System), 2.256
journals, 4.1.87, 4.4.9
JP (joint publication), 2.257
Jr., 2.258
JROC (Joint Requirements Oversight Coun-
cil), 2.259
JSOW (joint stando weapon), 2.260
JSTARS (Joint Surveillance Target Attack
Radar System), 2.261
JTF (joint task force), 2.262
judicial branch, 4.1.88
-keeper, 4.2.134
kg (kilogram), 2.263
kHz (kilohertz), 2.264
KIA (killed in action), 2.265
km (kilometer), 2.266
Koran, 4.2.135
Korean conict, 4.1.89
Korean War, 4.1.90
kW (kilowatt), 2.267
landmass, 4.2.136
land power, 4.2.137
LANDSAT (land satellite), 2.268
LANTIRN (low-altitude navigation and
targeting infrared for night), 2.269
latitude, 1.42, 2.270
laws, 4.1.3, 4.1.91
lb. (pound), 2.271
legal cases, 2.513, 4.4
legislative bodies, 4.1.92
legislative branch, 4.1.92
LEO (low Earth orbit), 2.272
LF (low frequency), 2.273
LGB (laser-guided bomb), 2.274
LGM (laser-guided missile), 2.275
LGW (laser-guided weapon), 2.276
LIMFAC (limiting factor), 2.277
lists, 1.43
LNO (liaison ocer), 2.278
LO (low observable), 2.279
LOAC (law of armed conict), 2.280
LOC (line of communications), 2.281
localities, 4.1.93
loc. cit. (loco citato), 2.282
log-in (n.), 4.2.139
log in (v.), 4.2.138
logistic or logistical, 4.2.140
logistics (n.), 3.1.15
log-o (n.), 4.2.142
log o (v.), 4.2.141
log-on (n.), 4.2.144
log on (v.), 4.2.143
longitude, 1.42, 2.270
long-term (adj.), 4.2.146
long term (n.), 4.2.145
longtime (adj.), 4.2.147
LORAN (long-range aid to navigation),
2.283
Luwae, 4.4.11
LZ (landing zone), 2.284
MAAP (master air attack plan), 2.285
Mach, 4.3.14
magazines, 4.4.12
MAGTF (Marine air-ground task force),
2.286
MAJCOM (major command), 2.287
man- (prex), 4.2.148
man-hour(s), 4.2.149
MANPADS (man-portable air defense
system), 2.288
manuals, 2.138, 4.4.13
Marine, 4.1.94, 4.2.150
Marine(s), 4.1.94, 4.2.150
Marine Corps, 1.69, 4.1.94
Marshall Plan, 4.1.95
masters degree, 4.1.96
material, 4.2.151
matériel (or materiel), 4.2.151
MAW (Marine aircra wing), 2.289
measurements, 4.3.15
medals, 4.1.97
MEDEVAC (medical evacuation), 2.290
media, 3.1.16
MEO (medium Earth orbit), 2.291
MHz (megahertz), 2.292
MIA (missing in action), 2.293
microcomputer, 4.2.152
mid- (prex), 4.2.153
INDEX 195
INDEX
Middle Ages, 4.1.98
MiG(s), 2.294, 4.1.99
military abbreviations, 2.295
military establishment, 4.1.100
military-industrial complex, 4.1.101
military terms, 4.1.102
military time, 4.3.16
military titles and oces, 2.296, 4.1.103
military units, 4.3.17
militia, militias, 4.2.154
Milošević, Slobodan, 4.2.155
MILSATCOM (military satellite communi-
cations), 2.297
mind-set (n.), 4.2.156
minelayer (n.), 4.2.157
mine-laying (adj.), 4.2.159
mine laying (n.), 4.2.158
minesweeper (n.), 4.2.160
minesweeping (n., v.), 4.2.161
misplaced modiers, 3.1.17
MISREP (mission report), 2.298
missileman, 4.2.162
MITRE Corp. (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Research Corporation), 2.299
MMOAS (master of military operational art
and science [degree, Air Command and
Sta College]), 2.300
MNF (multinational force), 2.301
MOA (memorandum of agreement), 2.302
MOB (main operating base), 2.303
MOE (measure of eectiveness), 2.304
money, 4.3.18
months of the year, 2.305
moon, 4.1.104
MOS (military occupational specialty),
2.306
mottoes, 1.44, 4.1.105
MOU (memorandum of understanding),
2.307
mph (miles per hour), 2.308
MPMS (master of philosophy in military
strategy [degree, School of Advanced Air
and Space Studies]), 2.309
Mr., 2.310
MRE (meal, ready to eat), 2.311
Mrs., 2.310
Ms., 2.310
MSFRIC (Muir S. Fairchild Research Infor-
mation Center), 2.312
MSS (master of strategic studies [degree,
Air War College]), 2.313
MTW (major theater war), 2.314
multi- (prex), 4.2.163
must-read (n.), 4.2.164
NAF (nonappropriated funds; numbered air
force), 2.315
NAS (naval air station), 2.316
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space
Administration), 2.317
nation-state, 4.2.165
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-
tion), 2.318
NAVAID (navigation aid), 2.319
naval forces, 4.1.106
naval station, 4.1.107
NAVSAT (navigation satellite), 2.320
Navy, 1.70, 4.1.108
NBC (nuclear, biological, and chemical), 2.321
NCA (National Command Authorities),
2.322
NCO (noncombat operations; noncommis-
sioned ocer), 2.323
NCOIC (noncommissioned ocer in
charge), 2.324
NDU (National Defense University), 2.325
NEA (Northeast Asia), 2.326
near-real-time (adj.), 4.2.167
near real time (n.), 4.2.166
near-term (adj.), 4.2.169
near term (n.), 4.2.168
Negro, Negroes, 1.45
NEO (noncombatant evacuation opera-
tion), 2.327
NETOPS (network operations), 2.328
network-centric (adj.), 4.2.170
newspapers, 4.4.14
NGA (National Geospatial-Intelligence
Agency), 2.329
NGB (National Guard Bureau), 2.330
NGO (nongovernmental organization),
2.331
nicknames, 1.46
nighttime, 4.2.171
196 INDEX
INDEX
NIPRNET (Nonsecure Internet Protocol
Router Network), 2.332
nm (nautical mile), 2.333
no., 2.334
NOFORN (not releasable to foreign nation-
als), 2.335
non- (prex), 4.2.172
none, 3.1.18
NORAD (North American Aerospace De-
fense Command), 2.336
NOTAM (notice to Airmen), 2.337
notes, 5.5
NRO (National Reconnaissance Oce),
2.338
NSA (National Security Agency), 2.339
NSC (National Security Council), 2.340
nuclear triad, 4.1.109
numbered air force, 4.3.19
numbers, 4.3
NVG (night vision goggle[s]), 2.341
NW (network warfare), 2.342
OCA (oensive counterair), 2.343
OCONUS (outside the continental United
States), 2.344
ocials, government, 4.1, 4.1.110
o-line (adj., adv.), 4.2.173
o-load (v.), 4.2.174
OJT (on-the-job training), 2.345
OL (operating location), 2.346
O&M (operation and maintenance), 2.347
OMB (Oce of Management and Budget),
2.348
omissions, 3.2.7
onboard (adj.), 4.2.175
on board (adv.), 4.2.176
ongoing (adj.), 4.2.177
online (adj., adv.), 4.2.178
onload (v.), 4.2.179
on-station (adj.), 4.2.180
on station (adv.), 4.2.181
OODA (observe, orient, decide, act), 2.349
op. cit. (opere citato), 2.350
OPCON (operational control), 2.351
operations, names of, 4.1.111
OPLAN (operation plan), 2.352
OPM (Oce of Personnel Management),
2.353
OPORD (operation order), 2.354
OPR (oce of primary responsibility),
2.355
OPSEC (operations security), 2.356
OPTEMPO (operating tempo), 2.357
organizations, 4.1, 4.1.112
ORM (operational risk management), 2.358
ORS (operationally responsive space), 2.359
OSD (Oce of the Secretary of Defense),
2.360
OT&E (operational test and evaluation),
2.361
OTS (Ocer Training School), 2.362
outbrief (v.), 4.2.182
outbrieng (n., v.), 4.2.183
out-process (v.), 4.2.184
over- (prex), 4.2.185
PA (public aairs), 2.363
PACAF (Pacic Air Forces), 2.364
pacts, 4.1.150
page numbers, 2.365
pamphlets, 2.138, 4.4.15
panzer, 4.1.113
parallelism, 3.1.19
parentheses, 3.2.10
part-time (adj., adv.), 4.2.186
part-timer (n.), 4.2.187
party (political), 4.1, 4.1.114
passive voice, 3.1.20
PAWS (phased array warning system), 2.366
PCS (permanent change of station), 2.367
peacekeeper, 4.2.188
peacekeeping, 4.2.189
peacemaker, 4.2.190
peacemaking, 4.2.191
peacetime, 4.2.192
per annum, 4.2.193
per capita, 4.2.194
percent, 1.47, 4.3.20
period, 3.2.11
periodicals, 4.4.16
Persian Gulf War, 4.1.115
personal information, 1.48
PGM (precision-guided munition), 2.368
Philippines, 4.2.195
PIREP (pilot report), 2.369
PKO (peacekeeping operation), 2.370
INDEX 197
INDEX
plagiarism, 5.6
plans, 4.1.116, 4.1.150
plurals of aircra designations, 3.1.21
p.m. (post meridiem [aer noon]), 2.371,
4.1.117
PME (professional military education),
2.372
PNT (positioning, navigation, and timing),
2.373
POC (point of contact), 2.374
POL (petroleum, oils, and lubricants), 2.375
policy directives, 2.138, 4.4.17
policy maker (n.), 4.2.196
policy-making (adj.), 4.2.198
policy making (n.), 4.2.197
POM (program objective memorandum),
2.376
possessive, 3.2.12
possessive with a gerund, 3.1.22
post- (prex), 4.2.199
POW (prisoner of war), 2.377
PPBE (Planning, Programming, Budgeting,
and Execution), 2.378
PR (personnel recovery), 2.379
pre- (prex), 4.2.200
preliminaries, 1.49
president, 4.1.118
Prime BEEF (Prime Base Engineer Emer-
gency Force), 2.380
pro- (prex), 4.2.201
proactive (adj.), 4.2.202
proactively (adv.), 4.2.203
problem solver (n.), 4.2.204
problem-solving (adj.), 4.2.206
problem solving (n.), 4.2.205
profanity, 1.50
proofreaders’ marks, 1.51
PSYOP (psychological operation), 2.381
PSYWAR (psychological warfare), 2.382
pub (publication), 2.383
quantities, 4.3.21
question mark, 3.2.13
quotation marks, 3.2.14
quotations, 5.7
RAF (Royal Air Force [United Kingdom]),
2.384
RAND or RAND Corporation, 4.1.119
rank, 2.385
rates of speed, 2.0, 4.3, 4.3.15
RCS (radar cross section), 2.387
R&D (research and development), 2.388
RDA (research, development, and acquisi-
tion), 2.389
RDT&E (research, development, test, and
evaluation), 2.390
re- (prex), 4.2.207
reachback (n.), 4.2.208
real-time (adj.), 4.2.210
real time (n.), 4.2.209
real-world (adj.), 4.2.211
RECCE (reconnaissance), 2.391
RECON (reconnaissance), 2.392
RED HORSE (Rapid Engineers Deployable
Heavy Operations Repair Squadron,
Engineers), 2.393
reexive/intensive pronouns, 3.1.23
regiment, 4.1.120
regions, 4.1.93
regions of the world, 4.1.121
regular, 4.1.122
Republican(s), 4.1.123
Republican Party, 4.1.123
Reserve(s), 4.1.124
retired military personnel, 1.52
risk-taking (adj.), 4.2.213
risk taking (n.), 4.2.212
RMA (revolution in military aairs), 2.394
road map (n.), 4.2.214
ROE (rule of engagement), 2.395
ROK (Republic of Korea), 2.396
ROTC (Reserve Ocer Training Corps), 2.397
RPA (remotely piloted aircra), 2.398
RPG (rocket propelled grenade), 2.399
RPV (remotely piloted vehicle), 2.400
RRF (rapid reaction [or response] force), 2.401
running heads, 1.53
Russia, Russian, 1.54
SA (situational awareness), 2.402
SAASS (School of Advanced Air and Space
Studies), 2.403
SACEUR (Supreme Allied Commander,
Europe), 2.404
SACLANT (Supreme Allied Command,
Atlantic), 2.405
198 INDEX
INDEX
SAF (secretary of the Air Force), 2.406
Sailor (n.), 4.1.125, 4.2.215
Saint, 2.407
SAM (surface-to-air missile), 2.408
SAOC (sector air operations center), 2.409
SAR (search and rescue; synthetic aperture
radar), 2.410
SATCOM (satellite communications), 2.411
satellites, 4.3.22
SBIRS (space-based infrared system), 2.412
SCA (space coordinating authority), 2.413
SCUD (surface-to-surface missile system),
2.414
SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative), 2.415
SEA (Southeast Asia), 2.416
SEAD (suppression of enemy air defenses),
2.417
SEAL (sea-air-land team), 2.418
sea-lane, 4.2.216
seali (n., v.), 4.2.217
sea power, 4.2.218
seasons, 4.1.126
Second World War, 1.80
security classication, 4.1.127
see, see also, 4.4.18
self- (prex), 4.2.219
semi- (prex), 4.2.220
semiannual, 1.55, 4.2.221
semicolon, 3.2.15
Senate, 4.1.128
senator, 4.1.129
series of items, 3.2.16
service, 4.1.130
sexist language, 1.56
SF (security force; security forces [Air Force or
Navy]; special forces; standard form), 2.419
SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied
Powers, Europe), 2.420
sharia, 4.2.222
Shiite, 4.2.223
ships, names of, 4.4.19
short-range, 4.2.224
short-term (adj.), 4.2.226
short term (n.), 4.2.225
show of force, 4.1.131
sic (so; thus; in this manner), 1.57, 4.4.20
SIGINT (signals intelligence), 2.421
Signal Corps, the corps, 4.1.132
SIOP (Single Integrated Operational Plan),
2.422
SIPRNET (Secret Internet Protocol Router
Network), 2.423
SITREP (situation report), 2.424
SJA (sta judge advocate), 2.425
SLAM (stando land attack missile), 2.426
SLAR (side-looking airborne radar), 2.427
slash, 3.2.17
SLBM (submarine-launched ballistic mis-
sile), 2.428
SLCM (sea-launched cruise missile), 2.429
SLOC (sea line of communications), 2.430
Smithsonian Institution, 4.1.133
SO (special order), 2.431
SOC (security operations center; special op-
erations commander; Squadron Ocer
College), 2.432
so-called, 1.58
socialism (theory or school of thought),
4.1.134
socialist (advocate of socialism), 4.1.134
Socialist (member of the party), 4.1.134
Socialist Party, 4.1.134
SOF (special operations forces), 2.433
Soldier, 4.1.135, 4.2.227
SOP (standing [or standard] operating
procedure), 2.434
SORTS (Status of Resources and Training
System), 2.435
SOS (Squadron Ocer School; special
operations squadron), 2.436
South, 4.1.136
SOUTHAF (Southern Command Air
Forces), 2.437
Soviet(s), 1.59
Soviet Union, 1.59
SOW (special operations wing; stando
weapon), 2.438
SP (security police), 2.439
space-, in compounds, 4.2.228
spacecra, 4.4.21
space-li (adj., v.), 4.2.230
space li (n.), 4.2.229
space power, 4.2.231
space programs, 4.1.137
space shuttle, 4.1.138
Speaker (of the House), 4.1.139
INDEX 199
INDEX
spelling and word formation, 4.2
Spetsnaz, 4.1.140, 4.4.22
SPINS (special instructions), 2.440
Sputnik, 4.1.141
squadron, 4.1.142
Sr., 2.441
SROE (standing rule of engagement), 2.442
SSA (space situational awareness), 2.443
SSBN (eet ballistic missile submarine), 2.444
SSM (surface-to-surface missile), 2.445
SSN (attack submarine, nuclear; space sur-
veillance network), 2.446
standby (adj., adv., n.), 4.1.143, 4.2.232
stand by (v.), 4.2.233
stando (n.), 4.2.234
stand o (v.), 4.2.235
state names (abbreviations), 2.0
state-of-the-art (adj.), 4.2.237
state of the art (n.), 4.2.236
stealth bomber, 4.1.144
stealth technology, 4.1.144
STOL (short takeo and landing), 2.448
STOVL (short takeo and vertical landing
aircra), 2.449
sub- (prex), 4.2.238
subheadings, 1.60
subject-verb agreement, 3.1.24
subjunctive mood, 3.1.25
subtitle, 1.61
sun, 4.1.145
superpower, 4.2.239
Supreme Court (of the United States), 4.1.146
SWA (Southwest Asia), 2.450
tables, 1.62
TACAIR (tactical air), 2.451
TACON (tactical control), 2.452
TACP (tactical air control party), 2.453
TACS (tactical [or theater] air control
system), 2.454
TACSAT (tactical satellite), 2.455
TAF (tactical air force), 2.456
takeo (n.), 4.2.240
take o (v.), 4.2.241
takeover (n.), 4.2.242
take over (v.), 4.2.243
TAW (tactical airli wing), 2.457
TBM (tactical [or theater] ballistic missile),
2.458
TBMD (theater ballistic missile defense), 2.459
TDY (temporary duty), 2.460
T&E (test and evaluation), 2.461
temperature, 4.3.23
TERCOM (terrain contour matching), 2.462
test-y (v.), 4.2.244
that, 3.1.26, 3.1.27
the, 1.63. See also index, 1.37
theater or theatre, 4.1.147, 4.2.245
there are, 3.1.28
there is, 3.1.28
third-, in compounds, 4.2.246
third world or ird World, 4.1.148
this, 3.1.29
TIC (troops in contact), 2.463
time, 4.3.24
title (v.), 1.28
titles of persons and oces, 2.464, 4.1
titles of works, 4.1.149
TLAM (Tomahawk land attack missile), 2.465
TLAM/N (Tomahawk land attack missile/
nuclear), 2.466
TMD (theater missile defense), 2.467
TO (technical order), 2.468
TOF (time of ight), 2.469
TOT (time on target), 2.470
TOW (tube launched, optically tracked,
wire guided), 2.471
TPFDD (time-phased force and deployment
data), 2.472
TPFDL (time-phased force and deployment
list), 2.473
trademarks, 1.64
TRADOC (US Army Training and Doctrine
Command), 2.474
trans- (prex), 4.2.247
treaties, 4.1.150
tri- (prex), 4.2.248
TRS (tactical reconnaissance squadron),
2.475
Truman, Harry S., 1.65
TTP (tactics, techniques, and procedures),
2.476
UAS (unmanned aircra system), 2.477
UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), 2.478
200 INDEX
INDEX
U-boat, 4.2.249
UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice), 2.479
UCP (Unied Command Plan), 2.480
UHF (ultrahigh frequency), 2.481
UK (United Kingdom), 2.482
ultra- (prex), 4.2.250
UMD (unit manning document), 2.483
un- (prex), 4.2.251
UN (United Nations), 2.484
under- (prex), 4.2.252
underway (adj.), 4.2.253
under way (adv.), 4.2.254
United States, 1.66
United States Air Force, 1.67
United States Army, 1.68
United States Marine Corps, 1.69
United States Navy, 1.70
units of measure, 4.3.25
UNPROFOR (United Nations protection
force), 2.485
upon, 1.71
URL (uniform [or universal] resource loca-
tor), 2.486
US (United States), 2.487
USA (United States Army), 1.68, 2.488
USAF (United States Air Force), 1.67, 2.489
USAFCENT (US Air Forces Central), 2.490
USAFE (United States Air Forces in Eu-
rope), 2.491
USAFR (United States Air Force Reserve),
2.492
USAFRICOM (United States Africa Com-
mand), 2.493
US Air Force, 1.67
US Army, 1.68
USC (United States Code), 2.494
USCENTAF (United States Central Com-
mand Air Forces), 2.495
USCENTCOM (United States Central
Command), 2.496
USCG (United States Coast Guard), 2.497
USCYBERCOM (United States Cyber Com-
mand), 2.498
USEUCOM (United States European Com-
mand), 2.499
US government, 4.1.72
USJFCOM (United States Joint Forces
Command), 2.500
US Marine Corps, 1.69
USMC (United States Marine Corps), 1.69,
2.501
USN (United States Navy), 1.70, 2.502
US Navy, 1.70
USNORTHCOM (United States Northern
Command), 2.503
USSBS (United States Strategic Bombing
Survey), 2.504
USSOCOM (United States Special Opera-
tions Command), 2.505
USSOUTHAF (United States Air Force,
Southern Command), 2.506
USSOUTHCOM (United States Southern
Command), 2.507
USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics),
1.59, 2.508
USSTRATCOM (United States Strategic
Command), 2.509
USTRANSCOM (United States Transporta-
tion Command), 2.510
USW (undersea warfare), 2.511
UTC (unit type code), 2.512
v. (versus), 2.513
VFR (visual ight rules), 2.514
VHF (very high frequency), 2.515
vice (prep.), 1.72
vice-, in compounds, 4.2.255
vice versa, 4.2.256
Vietcong, 4.2.257
Vietminh, 4.2.258
Vietnamese (adj.; n., sing. and pl.), 3.1.30
Vietnam War, 4.1.151
viz., 2.516
VLF (very low frequency), 2.517
V/STOL (vertical and/or short takeo and
landing), 2.518
VTOL (vertical takeo and landing), 2.519
walk-, in compounds, 4.2.259
war-, in compounds, 4.2.260
war, the, 1.79, 1.80
war ghter (n.), 4.2.261
war-ghting (adj.), 4.2.263
war ghting (n.), 4.2.262
war game (n.), 4.2.264
war-game (v.), 4.2.265
war gamer (n.), 4.2.266
INDEX 201
INDEX
war-gaming (adj.), 4.2.268
war gaming (n.), 4.2.267
warhead, 4.2.269
war-making (adj.), 4.2.271
war making (n.), 4.2.270
WARNORD (warning order), 2.520
warplane, 4.2.272
wars, 4.1.152
Warsaw Pact, 4.1.153
Warsaw Pact nations, 4.1.153
warship, 4.2.273
wartime, 4.2.274
Washington, DC (or D.C.), 2.521
wavelength(s), 4.2.275
we, 3.1.14
weapon system(s), 1.73
weapons system(s), 1.73
Web (or web) address, 1.74
Web (or web) terms, 4.1.154
Web sites (or websites), titles of, 4.4
weights and measurements, 4.3.26
well-, in compounds, 4.2.276
weltanschauung, 4.2.277
West(ern), 4.1.155
West Berlin, 1.75
western front (World War I), 4.1.156
Western Hemisphere, 4.1.157
West Germany, 1.75
what, 3.1.27
whether, 3.1.31
which, 3.1.26, 3.1.27, 3.1.32
while, 1.76
white (people), 1.77, 4.1.159
white paper, 4.1.158
who, 3.1.27
WIA (wounded in action), 2.522
wide-, in compounds, 4.2.278
-wide, in compounds, 4.2.279
wing, 4.1.160
wingspan, 4.2.280
wiretap (n., v.), 4.2.281
wiretapper (n.), 4.2.282
WMD (weapon of mass destruction), 2.523
word division, 1.78
words as words, 4.4.23
work-, in compounds, 4.2.283
work-around (n.), 4.2.284
work around (v.), 4.2.285
workforce, 4.2.286
work hour(s), 4.2.287
workload, 4.2.288
work order, 4.1.161
worldview, 4.2.289
world war, 1.79, 1.80
World War I (or 1), 1.79
World War II (or 2), 1.80
worldwide, 4.2.290
Wright brothers, 4.1.162
WRSK (war readiness [or reserve] spares
kit), 2.524
WWW (World Wide Web), 2.525
Xerox (n.), xerox (v.), 1.81, 4.1, 4.1.163
XO (executive ocer), 2.526
year, 4.3.27
year (punctuation with), 3.2.18
year-, in compounds, 4.2.291
zero, zeros (also zeroes), 1.82, 4.2.292, 4.3.28
zero hour (n.), 4.2.293
zero-sum (adj.), 4.2.294
ZIP (zone improvement plan) code, 1.83,
2.527, 3.2.19, 4.1.164
zip (n.), 1.83, 2.527
zip code (n.), 1.83, 2.527, 4.1.164
zip-code (v.), 1.83, 2.527
ZULU (time zone indicator for Universal
Time or Greenwich Mean Time), 2.528
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gained through ocial duties, then government laws and regulations prohibit
you from accepting payment for your work.
Copyright
If you are a government employee who writes a manuscript as part of your
job, you cannot own a copyright to that manuscript. By law, no copyright ex-
ists, and the manuscript is in the public domain. If you are not a government
employee and AU Press publishes your manuscript, you retain the copyright.
However, the publishing agreement you will sign with AU Press gives the Air
Force unlimited rights to publish and distribute your manuscript in print and
electronically. As copyright owner, you may also give the manuscript to a
commercial publisher, but your agreement with that publisher cannot restrict
the rights of the Air Force to publish and distribute your manuscript. For ad-
ditional details, see the AU Press publishing agreement in appendix A.
Classied and Sensitive Material
As a rule, AU Press does not process or publish classied material. If you
believe that your project merits an exception to this rule, please notify us as
early in the development process as possible.
Before submitting a manuscript to AU Press, make sure it contains no clas-
sied or sensitive information (e.g., inspector general reports or other docu-
ments marked “For Ocial Use Only” [FOUO], Social Security numbers, etc.).
Do not cite classied information or the titles of classied documents (whether
in the text, notes, bibliography, etc.). Do not include extraneous information of
a personal nature (e.g., mentioning the name of your spouse and/or children, 
your place of birth, etc. in the acknowledgments or in a biographical sketch).
Security and Policy Review
AU Press publications must undergo security clearance and policy review
to ensure that they contain no classied and sensitive information and do not
misrepresent current Air Force policy. Normally, the public aairs (PA) oce
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here at Maxwell completes the review, but DOD-aliated authors may have
their manuscript cleared by their local PA oce. If you do so, please provide
us with the clearance/case number assigned by that oce. 
Production Schedule
A number of variables aect our publication process (see the gure on the
next page). ese include the manuscripts length and quality, your availability 
to work with the editor, the workload and priorities of the press team assigned to
your project, and the number of manuscripts already in AU Presss production 
queue. e following schedule shows typical production times once the editing 
process begins:
•  book  -  8 to 12 months
•  AFRI Paper  -  3 to 6 months
•  Drew Paper  -  4 to 5 months
•  Wright Flyer Paper   -  3 to 4 months
•  Walker Paper  -  3 to 4 months
•  Maxwell Paper  -  3 to 4 months
Accepted Manuscripts
If AU Press decides to publish your manuscript, we will notify you to sub-
mit the nal les according to the instructions in the following section. Once
we have received your nal les and conrmed that they meet our submission
specications, we will put your manuscript in our production queue and send 
a publishing agreement (see appendix A) for you to read, sign, and return to
us. is document species, among other things, the obligations of both you
and the Air Force as they pertain to the publication of your work.
An editor will contact you when your manuscript is assigned to him or her.
Most AU Press production teams include a project editor, copy editor, quality 
reviewer, illustrator, and typesetter. e illustrator will prepare your gures
for printing and develop a cover design. e editors will edit the manuscript
according to this style guide and the Chicago Manual of Style. You will then
review those edits and work with the project editor to resolve all editorial is-
sues. is is your last opportunity to make changes to your manuscript. Aer 
this stage, we will correct only errors of fact, grammar, spelling, or typography.
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Author submits
completed manuscript (MS)
Press forms
publication team
Team establishes timeline
Team edits MS, prepares
illustrations/cover, and
coordinates changes
with author
Printing specialist
typesets MS
Editorial team proofreads
page proofs
Author checks final
page proofs
Government
Printing Office
contracts printing
Press makes initial
distribution
Sponsored by
–AU Publication Review Board
–AU school/agency
Team includes
project editor, copy editor,
printing specialist, illustrator,
marketing representative,
print-distribution specialist,
and author
Figure. General work ow
e manuscript will then undergo a quality review and be typeset. Once the
manuscript is typeset, the project editor will thoroughly proofread the typeset page
proofs. You will receive a PDF of the page proofs for review. Normally you will have
only a short time to review the page proofs and submit corrections of fact, gram-
mar, spelling, or typography. Aer all corrections have been made, the manuscript
will be prepared for printing (subject to budgetary constraints). We usually receive
hard copies of a book four to six weeks aer the les are submitted to the printer.
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Submission Instructions
All manuscripts must comply with this style guide, which is based on the
Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition. If you are interested in publishing a 
manuscript through AU Press, please read this section carefully. We cannot
accept manuscripts that are not submitted according to the procedures de-
scribed here.
Submitting a Manuscript to the Publication Review Board
To have a manuscript considered by the AU Publication Review Board,
please send an electronic copy of the manuscript, preferably on a CD, along
with a cover letter that identies your probable audience, describes your proj-
ect’s value to the Air Force, and tells us about your background and expertise, 
to the Acquisition Editor, Air University Press, Air Force Research Institute, 
155 N. Twining Street, Maxwell AFB, AL 36112-6026.
Submitting an Accepted Manuscript for Publication
If we accept your manuscript for publication, we will ask you to assemble all
of your manuscript materials for nal submission. All les should be submit-
ted electronically on two CDs—one for text les and one for images. (Origi-
nal images may be submitted by mail.) Please submit the following items,
which are discussed in detail below.
•  A  complete  manuscript,  properly formatted according to  the  require-
ments of the Air University Style Guide for Writers and Editors
•  Original images or an individual le for each electronic image 
•  An  AU  Press illustrations log (see  appendix C, and download the  log 
from the instructions for authors on the AU Press website)
•  A photo of you for the “About the Author” page and, if desired, the back 
cover
•  Written permission to reproduce any copyrighted material that requires 
permission
•  A distribution list for mailing copies of your publication
•  For books, a seed list for an index
•  Your year of birth (used by the Library of Congress to prepare cataloging-
in-publication data)
Formatting Your Manuscript
•  Submit electronic  les  of the  complete  manuscript on two  CDs—one for 
text les (in a format compatible with Microso Word) and one for images.
210 AIR UNIVERSITY PRESS AUTHOR GUIDE
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•  Label the CDs with your name, the title of your work, and the contents 
of the disk.
•  Do not use templates, embedded styles for the table of contents or index, 
or similar desktop-publishing features.
•  Create a separate le for the front matter (e.g., contents, foreword, pref-
ace, etc.), each chapter, and each part of the back matter (e.g., appen-
dixes, glossary / list of abbreviations, bibliography, etc.).
•  Do not embed illustrations in the text les. Instead, submit them as sep-
arate electronic les (see “Formatting and Submitting Tables and Illus-
trations,” below), and put a caption indicating where they should be
placed in the text. However, you may embed tables in the text les.
•  Use a 12-point font and double spacing. Front matter, notes, and back 
matter should be double spaced as well.
•  Place notes at the end of each chapter (endnotes), not at the bottom of 
each page (footnotes). ey should be double spaced and in 12-point
font. Use your word processor’s “insert endnote” feature to embed” the 
notes to enable automatic renumbering when you add, delete, or move
notes. We will not accept manuscripts whose endnotes are not embedded.
•  Make sure that your hierarchy of subheadings is consistent (see part 1, 
Air University Style Guide for Writers and Editors,” 1.60). Do not use 
numbered subheadings.
•  Check all quotations against the original sources and supply complete 
documentation for endnotes and bibliography.
•  All notes and bibliography entries must be formatted according to this 
style guide (see part 1, “Air University Style Guide for Writers and Edi-
tors,” appendixes A and B).
•  Provide translations or paraphrases of foreign-language passages in pa-
rentheses following the passage. For foreign-language titles in the end-
notes or bibliography, put the translations in brackets.
Formatting and Submitting Tables and Illustrations
•  Failure to follow these instructions may cause signicant delays in the 
production process. If you have any questions or need assistance, please 
call Air University Presss illustrators at commercial 334-953-3041 / DSN 
493-3041 or commercial 334-953-3042 / DSN 493-3042.
•  When you submit your illustrations (graphs, charts, photos, maps, art-
work, etc.), you must submit an AU Press illustrations log (see appendix
C) with all relevant information about each illustration. You can down-
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load the log from the instructions for authors on the AU Press website.
You can put the illustrations log on the same CD as your graphics les.
 S ubmit high-resolution digital images or original images such as photos,
maps, or gures (line art). We will return original images to you. Note
that GIF and BMT les are not normally acceptable for printing because
of their low resolution.
•  If  you  scan  your  own  images,  please  keep  the  following  principles  in 
mind. To ensure that the le contains enough data to reproduce accu-
rately, use high-end black-and-white or color calibrated scanning equip-
ment. Scan all images (color and grayscale) at a resolution between 266 
and 300 pixels per inch, based on an input-to-output (I/O) size ratio of 
1 to 1. All enlargements or reductions applied to images should adjust
the pixels proportionately. For example, a 3-by-5-inch original photo-
graph to be printed at 3-by-5 inches (I/O ratio of one to one) should be 
scanned at 266 to 300 pixels per inch. e same size photo to be printed 
at 6-by-10 inches (I/O ratio of one to two) should be scanned at 532 to 
600  pixels  per  inch.  Save  your  images  either  as  uncompressed  TIFF 
(tagged image le format), native PhotoShop le format (.psd), or EPS
(encapsulated postscript) les. JPEG les may be submitted, provided
they are saved at the highest-quality setting.
 I mages scanned at lower resolutions and then forced or pushed to a higher
resolution to meet printing standards become blurry. is happens, for
example, if you change an image at 150 pixels per inch to 300 pixels per 
inch in your image-editing program. Instead, you should rescan the image
at the target resolution of 300 pixels per inch. Although you can reduce 
digital images to a desired resolution, you should never try to increase
them to a higher resolution to meet printing standards.
•  Do not import images into another document such as Microso Word 
for submission. Submit images as individual les only.
•  Scan all line art as bitmap images with a resolution of between 1,200 and 
2,540 pixels per inch, based on an I/O ratio of 1 to 1. Enlargements and 
reductions are similarly proportional. Save the images either as uncom-
pressed TIFF, native PhotoShop le format, or EPS les.
•  Please send us a current photo of you for the “About the Author” section 
and, if desired, the back cover of your book. More than one pose is per-
missible. e photo for About the Author” should be black and white; 
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the one for the back cover should be color. We will return all original
photographs to you aer we have processed them.
•  Tables  should  be  numbered  consecutively  throughout the  manuscript 
(e.g., Table 1, Table 2, etc.) and embedded in the text le below their cap-
tions. If a credit line is needed, place it below the table.
Table 2. Bomb strikes during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea [place the
caption above the table]
Reprinted from Air Evaluation Board, Southwest Pacic Area, “Battle of
the Bismarck Sea and Development of Masthead Attacks,” 1 July 1945,
47, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, AL. [place
credit line below the table]
See  1.62  of  part  1  of  this  publication,  Air  University  Style  Guide  for 
Writers and Editors,” for information about formatting tables.
•  All illustrations—gures, charts, photos, maps, and the like—should be 
submitted as separate les (one illustration per le), not embedded in
the manuscript. Number the illustrations consecutively throughout the
manuscript and include the illustration number in the title of the le
(e.g., Figure1.psd). Indicate the placement of each illustration by includ-
ing its number and caption in the text (e.g., following the paragraph in
which you refer to the illustration). For example,
Figure 9. Cutaway view of the B-25G. (Reprinted from North American
Aviation, “Train Dispatcher,Saturday Evening Post, 4 November 1944, 107.)
•  If you have a list of illustrations and list of tables, include each list (titled “Il-
lustrations” and Tables” [without the quotation marks]) on a separate page, 
following the table of contents. Cite these items in the table of contents as
“List of Illustrations” and “List of Tables” (without the quotation marks).
•  Our  artists  design  and  create attractive covers  for  our  publications.  Al-
though we reserve the right to make nal artistic decisions about the cover
of your book, if you have ideas about artwork, our illustrators will be happy
to work with you to bring them to fruition. Please send us your notes
and/or sketches and contact our illustrators at commercial 334-953-3041 
/ DSN 493-3041 or commercial 334-953-3042 / DSN 493-3042.
Seed List for Index
•  Most AU Press books (but not research papers) have an index. 
•  Because the author knows best what terms a reader would nd useful in 
an index, the author is responsible for providing a “seed list”: an alpha-
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betized list of key terms that an AU Press editor uses to prepare an index. 
See 1.37 in this style guide for more guidance on indexing.
Permissions
•  When you sign your publishing agreement with us, you guarantee that 
your work is original. erefore, if you use copyrighted text, graphics, or
pictures, you must obtain written permissions from the rights holders
and submit copies to us, along with instructions from the rights holders
concerning credit lines and publication limitations. You are also respon-
sible for the payment of any necessary fees to the rights holders. Aer we 
begin editing your manuscript, if we think you need to obtain additional
permissions, we will contact you as soon as possible.
•  You do not need to obtain permission if the material you use is in the pub-
lic domain or if you comply with the doctrine of fair use of copyrighted
material. For further information on such material, see part 1 of this pub-
lication, “Air University Style Guide for Writers and Editors,” appendix C.
•  Copyright law does not set precise boundaries for fair use. Ultimately the 
author is responsible for not violating copyright law. However, AU Press
has adapted the fair use guidelines that the University of Chicago Press
oers for use of its own publications, available on the University of Chi-
cago Presss website. 
Quotations for the traditional scholarly purposes of criticism, ar-
gument, and illustration are fair use.
However,  reproducing  more  than  5,000  words  from  a  source, 
more than 5 percent of a source, or a complete poem, song, or
other literary work is probably not fair use.
Reproduction of complete graphical units (charts, images, pho-
tos, maps, etc.) requires permission. AU Press will not publish a 
copyrighted graphic unless the author obtains written permission
to reproduce it and supplies a copy of the permission to AU Press.
If you believe a graphic falls under the doctrine of fair use (e.g., a
photograph used to facilitate commentary on techniques of pho-
tographic composition or a single graph, table, or chart that in-
cludes no pictorial elements and merely presents data), you may
ask AU Press to consider an exception to the above policy.
•  In the case of material developed for school course work, the oce of 
primary  responsibility  in  the  using organization  is responsible for re-
viewing permissions and ensuring that the use of the copyrighted mate-
rial adheres to any limitations or requests indicated by the rights holder 
(see Air Force Instruction [AFI] 33-360, Publications and Forms Man-
agement,  25  September  2013; and  AFI  51-303,  Intellectual Property—
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Patents, Patent-Related Matters, Trademarks and Copyrights, 1 Septem-
ber 1998).
•  Because obtaining permissions can take a long time, begin requesting 
them early in the process of preparing your manuscript.
Distribution List
•  We will normally provide you up to 25 copies of your book free of charge. 
We will send them all to you, or you may submit a list of names and ad-
dresses of people or organizations to whom we will send them. However, 
these provisions are subject to budgetary constraints.
Checklist
•  Use  the  author  checklist  in  appendix  B  to  compile  your  submission. 
Please send all materials to the
Acquisition Editor
Air University Press
Air Force Research Institute
155 N. Twining Street
Maxwell AFB, AL 36112-6026
APPENDIX A
Publishing Agreement
APPENDIX A 2 1 7
Publishing Agreement
is is an agreement between the United States Air Force (termed “Air Force
hereaer) and <author’s name here> (termed the “Author” hereaer) to pub-
lish the <type of text here> (termed the “Work” hereaer) titled <title here>.
e Author agrees to abide by the terms and conditions set forth below. e
agreement is eective as of <date here>.
1. Engagement and Relationships: e Air Force agrees to publish and dis-
tribute, and the Author licenses the Air Force to publish and distribute, the
Work under the terms and conditions set forth in this agreement.
2. Compensation: e Author will receive no monetary compensation from
the Air Force unless the Work is completed through a formal contracting pro-
cess (e.g., through the 42d ABW at Maxwell AFB, AL).
3. License: In exchange for publication and distribution of the Work at no
cost to the Author, the Author grants the Air Force a permanent, nonexclu-
sive, royalty-free license to publish and distribute the Work, in whole or in
part, in whatever quantities and at whatever times the Air Force determines
necessary. In addition, the Government Printing Oce may elect to stock and
sell the Work to those persons or institutions determined to be outside the
education scope of the Air Force.
4. Retention of Copyright: Nothing in this agreement shall be interpreted
to transfer the Author’s ownership or copyright of the Work to the Air Force.
e Author shall retain all rights to the Work not transferred to the Air Force
under this agreement. e Air Force agrees to include language in any volume
or other media containing the Work stating that the Author retains owner-
ship of the Work and all rights granted under 17 U.S.C. §106, except those
rights which have been granted to the Air Force under this agreement.
Federal employees who complete manuscripts (“the Work”) as part
of their normal duties (i.e., on government time) cannot by law own the
copyright to that Work. In these cases, no copyright exists. e Air Force,
at its discretion, may license a commercial publisher to sell such a Work.
No royalties for the Air Force will be received in such a case.
Authors who do own the copyright for their Work may engage a com-
mercial publisher to sell this Work, but rights conferred to the commercial
publisher must not restrict or interfere with prior rights licensed to the Air
Force under this agreement. Any agreement between the author and an-
other publisher should include terms specically recognizing the nonex-
clusive royalty-free license hereby provided to the Air Force.
Authors whose Work has been completed under a formal contract-
ing process (e.g., through the 42d ABW at Maxwell AFB, AL) confer to
218 APPENDIX A218
the Air Force the license to negotiate publishing rights with a commercial
publisher when that opportunity suits Air Force needs. No royalties for the
Air Force will be received in such a case. Rights conferred to a commercial
publisher will not restrict or interfere with printing and distribution rights
of the Air Force.
5. Format: e Air Force may, without limitation, publish the Work in print,
electronic, audio, or other media formats and in any language.
6. Publication Costs: e Air Force will pay full costs for the publication of
the Work, including the initial printing of the Work and reprints that the Air
Force, at its discretion, elects to produce.
7. Development of the Work: e Air Force will work interactively with the
Author to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and quality of eort. e Air Force re-
serves the right to edit, or otherwise modify, the Work as the Air Force deems
appropriate to meet established publishing standards and Air Force security
and policy review guidelines. As part of its normal preparation for publica-
tion, the Air Force will typically (1) perform substantive and copy edits of the
manuscript along with other quality control measures to conform to Air Uni-
versity Press standards and style; (2) design front and back covers; (3) create
or further develop graphics to support the narrative content of the Work; (4)
prepare the manuscript for printing in print copy and/or electronic formats;
and (5) distribute the Work.
8. Obligations: e Author agrees to coordinate with the Air Force by re-
sponding promptly to inquiries or requests for materials within 10 working
days of a request from the project editor or supervisor. In unusual circum-
stances, the project editor or supervisor may grant an extension of up to 30
working days. If the author is responsible for 90 working days of delay (cumu-
lative), the Air Force may, at its discretion, terminate the agreement to pub-
lish the Work. Failure to be in compliance with Air Force security or policy
guidelines will be cause for project termination and/or withdrawal from dis-
tribution.
9. Author Armations:
❑  e Work is accurate and based upon sound research.
❑  e Work is original, does not infringe upon copyright protections, and
does not contain plagiarized text or graphics. [Note: Should the Air Force
determine at any time during the publishing cycle that the Work contains
inappropriate material (e.g., plagiarism or other copyright violation), the Au-
thor agrees to remove said material or to obtain permission to include such
material at no expense to the Air Force. Author will provide copies of relevant
permission(s) to the Air Force.]
APPENDIX A 219
Where more than one author is involved in a work, the individual(s) sign-
ing below as author(s) arms that he or she has the authority to sign this
agreement on behalf of any contributor not present to sign.
e Author will provide a completed manuscript at original submission
including relevant front and back matter.
e Author will provide a foreword and/or preface if required for nal
publication.
e Author will provide a comprehensive seed list of relevant terms,
events, and persons for an index if intended for nal publication.
10. Academic Freedom: e Air Force advocates the right of the Author to
exercise full freedom of expression while maintaining accuracy and respect
for the proprietary rights of others. e Air Force encourages and defends
the rights of the Author in accordance with Air University Instruction (AUI)
36-2308, Academic Freedom.
11. Author’s Name and Likeness: e Author agrees that the Air Force shall
have the right to use the Author’s name, likeness, and biographical materials
concerning him/her in the original Work, in revised or derivative editions, or
in Air Force advertisements or promotional materials.
12. Author’s Copies: For book-length manuscripts that are physically print-
ed, the Air Force shall normally provide the Author—without cost—up to 25
copies of the Work. Funds permitting, these copies may be mailed (at no cost
to the author) in accordance with a distribution list provided by the author.
is document constitutes the Agreement between the parties and super-
sedes any predated agreement, oral or written. Addenda to this agreement
must be codied in writing and signed by the Author and the designated Air
Force representative.
_______________________ _______________________
Author’s Signature/Date Project Editor or Branch Chief/Date
Air University Press
_______________________
Chief, Air University Press
Air Force Research Institute
APPENDIX B
Author’s Checklist
APPENDIX A 223
Air University Press
Author’s Checklist
Please ensure that your submission to AU Press includes the following items:
Text
Properly labeled CD(s) of the manuscript.
Notes double-spaced and grouped at the end of each chapter.
Place holders in text for illustrations.
Tables embedded in the text.
Your date of birth for CIP data.
List of key terms for index (book manuscripts).
If necessary, copyright permissions for textual passages, illustrations, ta-
bles, photos, and other graphics; sources properly acknowledged in manuscript.
Distribution list.
Illustrations
AU Press illustrations log completed for all illustrations. (Download the
log from the instructions for authors on the AU Press website.)
Original prints, transparencies, and/or camera-ready copies of illustra-
tions, graphs, maps, and so forth.
Properly labeled CD of illustrations (separate from the manuscript CD).
If necessary, permissions for illustrations; sources properly acknowl-
edged in manuscript.
Double-spaced caption list of illustrations and tables included in table
of contents.
APPENDIX C
Illustrations Log
APPENDIX C 227
Illustrations Log
Author:
Title:
AU Press editor:
Completed by author
Completed by AU
Press editor
Completed
by artist
Fig.
no.
File name
Description (e.g., map of
Vietnam)
File size
(MB)
Source
Reprint
rights*
Color/
B&W
Edited
Needs
artist
revi-
sion
Res
OK
Ready
to print
Insert applicable number:
1 = Received written permission to reprint. (Submit copy of permission to AU Press.)
2 = Created by author. (Even if an author creates a figure, the author still may need to acknowledge the source of data on which the figure is based.)
3 = In the public domain
*