Hansard Association of Canada Style Guide

1 1 Hansard Association of Canada Style GuideTABLE OF CONTENTSSECTION 1 MANUSCRIPT MECHANICS .. 1-33 General .. Ampersand .. Clipped forms .. Et cetera .. Geographic.. Initials with Surname .. Measurements .. Miscellaneous .. Plurals .. 62. Numerical General rules .. Adjacent figures.. Age .. Classifications .. Dates .. Decimals .. Figures of speech .. Fractions.. Grades .. Groups .. Highways .. Idiomatic references .. Inexact numbers .. Initial numbers .. Large numbers .. Money .. Number as No. before numerals .. Percentages.

2 Plural of figures .. Proportions and ratios .. Sequence of numbers .. Units of time .. Weights and measures .. Omission .. Possession .. Possession (Joint) .. Pluralization .. Verb formation .. General .. Acts .. Agreements .. Arts and publishing .. Building, street names .. Classifications .. Courts .. Departments .. Education .. Family titles .. Geographical terms .. Headlines and slogans .. Ministers .. Numbered labels .. Organizations and their members .. Police and military .. Private businesses .. Religion.. School courses.

3 Sports .. Titles .. Surnames.. Trade names used generically .. Ambiguity .. Compound adjectives .. Compound nouns .. Compound numbers .. Inclusive numbers or dates .. Prefixes .. Prefixes before proper nouns .. Complementary elements .. Emphasis .. Lists .. Questions .. Quotations .. Scriptural references .. Summaries .. Titles .. Adjectives .. Antithetical elements .. Appositives .. Complementary elements .. Compound sentences .. Dates .. Direct address .. Elliptical construction .. Enumerations .. Essential and nonessential phrases and clauses.

4 Expressions introduced by the word that .. Interrupting expressions .. Introductory phrases and clauses .. Numbers .. Phrases and clauses in a compound sentence .. Place-names .. Rhetorical comments .. Series .. That is, , namely .. Too .. Transitional expressions and independent comments .. Enumerations .. Interruptions, pauses, afterthoughts, clarificationsand emphasis .. Omissions .. Use in Hansard .. Direct questions .. Requests .. Series of queries .. 26 Indirect questions.. Accuracy .. Direct discourse .. Interruptions.

5 Quotation marks with other marks of punctuation .. Words .. Independent clauses .. Series .. Enclosed material .. Enumeration .. Foreign plurals .. Proper nouns .. General rule .. False starts .. That .. of Subject and General rule .. Collective nouns as subjects .. Compound subject .. Indefinite pronouns .. Number .. Postponed subject .. Quantity .. Relative pronouns as subjects in adjective clauses .. Sentences .. of Pronoun and General rule .. Indefinite pronouns.. Who and whom .. Which and that .. Hypotheticals.. That-clauses.

6 Verbs .. Affect and Effect .. Lie and Lay .. 33 SECTION 2 -- PROCEDURE .. 34-42 SECTION 3 -- HANSARDICTIONARY .. 43-76 SECTION 1 -- MANUSCRIPT pe riods in uppe rcase a bbreviations fo rmed fro m the initia l letters of a g roup o fwords or from syllables in a complex word:EKG (electrocardiogram)UN (United Nations)NDP (New Democratic Party)AG (Attorney General) only as part of a verified title:Alberta Pensioners & Senior Citizens OrganizationProcter & formsUse a period after clipped forms only when there is a danger of misreading:ag rephigh techleg. officesporn ceteraEt cetera is not use periods with no (United States) (British Columbia) (People's Republic of China) (United Kingdom) with surnameUppercase and use periods between initials used with a su rname, with no space betweenthe period and a subsequent initial:Mr.

7 Smith Jones Charles C. ThomasNo periods are used when a person is referred to by initials only:JFK (John F. Kennedy) FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) periods and lowercase abbreviations that refer to measurement:bd (barrels per day)bcf (billion cubic feet)kva (kilovolt-ampere)mb (million barrels) h istorical d ates are often ac companied b y th e ab breviation A .D. (for annoDomini, in the year of our Lord) or (before Christ). is written before the year,but is written after the year:400 19676 Although you will see a. m. and written in capital letters, the preference is for sm allletters with no spacing.

8 Do not use the word o'clock with these abbreviations, and do notuse the abbreviations without figures:You will please report at 9 is to arrive at eight o'clock. (Not 8 o'clock, or 8 o'clock )Sue will come tomorrow afternoon.(Not tomorrow , because the abbreviation is used only with a figure.)The a bbreviation f or no on is either n. o r m . ( for meridiem, th e Latin word m eaningnoon); however, noon is usually spelled out, as 12 normal abbreviations of most words, use the periods:Hon., , cu. ft., , km/hr., et al., cf. (compare), (id est)When an abbreviation ends a sentence, one period does the work of hour is 6 Committee abbreviations with a simple s:a few MLAs selected rulesCardinal and ordinal numbers from one to nine are spelled out, and figures are used forcardinal and ordinal numbers 10 and above.

9 Zero is usually spelled out in text, especiallywhen it stands brought six apples and 13 temperature is 10 below figuresWhen two figures occur side by side, spell out the first if it is under 100:We have twenty-nine grade 5 students visiting us clinic dispensed 2,000 ten-milligram doses last the general rule:He is 45; his daughter is died in his 70th 14-year-old boy is missing, but the 11-year-old is to 19-year-oldsIn ages standing alone after a name:Melanie, 2, has two brothers, eight and , two-months-old, had a number refers to a figure as opposed to an amount, use figures and lowercase theclassifying word:category 1 schoolsgrade A-1phase 2class 1 soilitem 7stage 2division 2page 5zone Ordinals are treated in the same manner as other numbers, , first to ninth in letters and10th and up in figures.

10 April 15 January 2 July 2715th of Aprilsecond of Januaryeighth of Maythe 1920s the mid-1940s1980smid-'eightiessecond century 20th centuryfifth century '69 9371600 10 year periodAugust 1914 April 1, 1978, (not April 1st or April 5th)1979-80'79-801979-1980 Exceptions:Gay NinetiesDirty Thirties Roaring Twenties(The numbers are written out because of the adjectives preceding them.) are always expressed in figures, without .30 of speechWrite out the numbers:a ten foot pole a ten gallon words and preserve the member's Style in expressing fractions, , a half, one-half, aquarter, one-quarter:one-half, three-quarters, but a half, a fifththirty-three hundredthsfour and three-quartersa four and three-quarter hour figures:grade 1 grades 11 and out the numbers:Twelve ApostlesTen CommandmentsBig figures:Highway 2 Highway 28A eastsecondary road 541 Highway referencesSpell out.