Style: Localisms, Composition Titles, Web Sites

Localisms

• IDC is style for the Interdisciplinary Center.
• LRC is style for the Learning Resource Center. Don’t write LRC when you mean Library.
• East Campus and West Campus.
• In general, all campus buildings, offices and landmarks are uppercase.

Examples:

• Administration Building, Campus Center, Business-Communication Center, Student Services Center, Digital Arts Center, Nursing Lab Bookstore, Cafeteria, Counseling Area, Financial Aid Office, Free Speech Area, Student Activities Office La Playa Stadium Sports Pavilion, Dwight Murphy Field, Garvin Theatre, Gertrude Calden Overlook, Leadbetter Beach, Lower Parking Lot, Science Village.

Room Numbers

• Refer to specific rooms as follows. Note, all are tight: no spaces and a hyphen, not a dash. No abbreviations.

Examples:

• Administration Building—Room 112
• Life Sciences-Geology Building—Room 234

Composition Titles

• Use quotation marks with most composition titles. This includes titles of books, movies, plays, poems, compact discs, songs, speeches and lectures, television shows, works of art and computer games (although not software).

Examples:

• “ER”
• “The X-Files”
• “American Beauty”
• “Gladiator”

• Do not use quotation marks with newspapers, magazines, major references books or The Bible.

Examples:

• The Los Angeles Times
• The Channels
• TV Guide
• Physicians Desk Reference

Web Addresses

• Web sites referred to within the story should be listed at the end of the story in the format described above.
• Web addresses should be referenced in a self-contained paragraph at the end of the story, separated from the rest by three long dashes. ———www.michellejwong.org