MarComm writing style manual

Use the official title, William Greenleaf Eliot Society, on first reference.

Add a regular space before and after the ellipsis.

Use only lowercase letters in email addresses. Do not italicize.

When referring to a group that contains emerita and emeritus individuals, emeriti is used.

The department of the university that provides compliance oversight and consulting help in all areas of safety, health and environmental compliance.

Takes a singular verb. But when members is used with faculty, the verb is plural.

Refer to the dean as the dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences.

Faculty Practice Plan refers to the business unit that runs the School of Medicine’s clinical practice and is acceptable for internal university audiences.

In general, university faculty members are of various departments in or at various schools.

The complete name, or the first reference name, of a fellowship program is capitalized, unless it’s plural.

Use fewer for countables and less for collective quantities.

Two words. Contests are played in the Washington University Field House, which is at the Athletics Complex.

Preferred to financial aid.

Lowercase floor. Spell out one through nine; use figures for 10 and above.

Do not use. Use international students.

Do not italicize or place in quotation marks commonly known foreign words or foreign phrases.

Capitalize The.

No apostrophe.

Spell out and hyphenate amounts less than one. Use figures for amounts larger than one to avoid cumbersome constructions.

See Greek letters.

Use first-year for undergraduate and graduate students who are in their first year of studies.

One word in all cases.

In general, under AP Style, note that gender is not synonymous with sex. Gender refers to a person’s social identity, while sex refers to biological characteristics.

In general, under AP Style, use terms that can apply to any gender.

Per AP Style, acceptable in broad references as a term for people who do not conform to gender expectations.

Capitalize the names of genes; italicize.

On first reference, use The Elizabeth H. and James S. McDonnell III Genome Institute.

See Washington University Genomics and Pathology Services.

See Washington University Genomics and Pathology Services.

On first reference, capitalize and spell out the genus name.

Internet company that runs a search engine and digital advertising network.

The actual Greek letters should be used whenever possible in scientific or medical copy, when appropriate.

One word, no hyphen.

Formerly known as Student Health Services, provides medical and mental health care for undergraduate and graduate students.

Preferred title for leaders of departments at the School of Medicine.

With newspapers, the first word is capitalized; others are lowercased unless style or grammar calls for capitalization.

A term with origins centrally rooted in the word Hispano (A person from — or whose ancestors were from — a Spanish-speaking land or culture), then adapted by a government committee, which was first used for the 1970 census.

Per AP Style, refers to the sexual orientations of gay and/or lesbian.

Capitalize this term used to refer to original inhabitants of a place.

Follow this form: For more information, visit url-here.com, email Joe Smith at joesmith@wustl.edu, or call xxx-xxx-xxxx.

On first reference, use the Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis.

See email; URL; and Web, the.

Do not italicize foreign words or phrases.

Use McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis on first reference.

Always use the full name of the center on first reference in text, and never use an ampersand in the title.

Do not italicize.

Officially, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, but Kemper Art Museum is acceptable in all references.

Use past to avoid confusion in time sequences.

Per AP Style, Latino is often the preferred noun or adjective for a person from, or whose ancestors were from, a Spanish-speaking land or culture or from Latin America. Latina is the feminine form.

See Nobel laureate; Poet Laureate.

Washington University School of Law or Washington University Law are both OK on first reference, but the school’s official name is Washington University School of Law.

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

For ordinal forms, lowercase level and spell out the number.

Studio space for graduate art students, located in University City, Missouri.

Per AP Style, acceptable in all references for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning and/or queer.

The University Libraries system is comprised of 12 libraries: John M. Olin Library and nine distributed libraries on the Danforth Campus; the Bernard Becker Medical Library at the Medical School campus; and the West Campus Library & Conference Center.

Avoid punctuation unless needed to avoid confusion.

Do not italicize.

The Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology is the Department of Radiology for the School of Medicine.

The 15th chancellor of Washington University.

McDonnell Academy is acceptable on second reference.

The official name of this campus is Washington University Medical Center.

Use Washington University Medical Center when the topic involves medical center affiliated institutions.

Use School of Medicine when the topic involves the school only.

See names.

Its course offerings are differentiated by Roman numerals: Mini-Medical School I; Mini-Medical School III, etc.

OK to use MRI or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on first reference.

No hyphen.

Use the full 560 Music Center for the property located at 560 Trinity Ave. in University City.

Named professorships (also known as endowed professorships or chairs) are in a particular discipline.

Refer to the undergraduate programs bulletin or the School of Medicine bulletin for correct spellings.

Acceptable in all references; no need to spell it out.

Do not capitalize unless used with the full name of a particular entity’s national council.

On first reference spell out and include (NIH) in parentheses.

See American Indian.

Acceptable in all references for National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Do not italicize or put in quote marks.

Not an official title; lowercase laureate.

The title to be used for the prize awarded to Douglass C. North in 1993.

Per AP Style, people are nonbinary if their gender identity is not strictly male or female. Not synonymous with transgender. Explain in a story if the context doesn’t make it clear.

The official nondiscrimination statement, amended July 2007, is required in all academic bulletins and recommended in other recruitment materials.

700 Rosedale Ave., 63112 — includes Parking and Transportation Services, Sponsored Projects Accounting, Family Learning Center and other offices.

Never Oak Alley.

The general order of an obituary lead is as follows: name, title, cause of death, day of the week, date, year, place.

Capitalize the word office if it is used as part of an entity’s official name; lowercase otherwise.

Do not use only the word Olin unless it is obvious to what it refers or it is in a direct quote.

Officially the Mr. & Mrs. Spencer T. Olin Fellowships for Women in Graduate Study, but the Olin Fellowship Program is acceptable in all references.

Olin Library has levels, not floors.

Spelling varies depending on the audience and usage.

According to the AP Stylebook, the term is acceptable when necessary in broad references to multiple races other than white.

NOT Department of Performing Arts in Arts & Sciences. PAD on second reference; no need for a (PAD) after the first reference.

Do not italicize.

Capitalize when used as an official title before an individual’s name.