Names and Titles

Degrees with Names
Government Programs
Names for Racial and Ethnic Origins
Names with Initials
Names with Job Titles
Names with Suffixes
Publications, Presentations, and Reports

See also Capitalization

Note: Consult your software documentation for the keystrokes or menu options used to create diacritical marks for non-English names and words: Rodrígues, résumé, etc.

Degrees with Names Use a comma between a person's name and degree.

John Teacher, MA

Government Programs Following the general rules of capitalization, full formal or accepted titles of plans, policies, laws, and similar documents or agreements, together with names of programs resulting from them, are usually capitalized. Incomplete names are lowercased.

In connection with the Federal Privacy Act of 1974, Section 7 (b), when disclosure of the social security number...

Names for Racial and Ethnic Origins See the Inclusive Writing section.

Names with Initials Use a space between two initials. Style three initials without spaces between letters.

Papers were presented by  I.  M. Smart, U.R.N. Wright, and J. Walker.

Names with Job Titles Capitalize titles only when they immediately precede the individual's name. For examples, see the Capitalization section. Do not use courtesy or academic degree titles when referring to academic personnel.

Professor John Doe, biology OR John Doe, professor of biology;
NOT Mr. John Doe or Professor Dr. John Doe

Names with Suffixes Omit commas before and after Jr., Sr. and the designations I, II, III, and IV. A possible exception: If you know that a person uses a comma and insists on its use, include it; personal names are a personal matter.

Fred Jones Jr. was introduced by Cedric Waltham III.
BUT Richard L. Byyny, MD, has been the chancellor of the Boulder campus since 1997.

Publications, Presentations, and Reports Titles of books, journals, movies, TV and radio programs, and campus publications are styled italic with initial caps (see the Capitalization section for more information). Titles of articles, episodes, short stories, book chapters, poems, conference papers, and essays are styled Roman (nonitalicized) and enclosed in quotation marks. Titles of forms, reports, workshops, conferences, etc. are also set in Roman text with initial caps.

Strategic Messages, available through the Office of News Services, contains a wealth of facts, statistics, and information about CU-Boulder.

The "Spring Break" episode of ER has not yet been shot, but Dr. E. M. Urgency gave a paper, "ER Goes to the Beach," at the Conference on TV Episodes We'd Love to See.

The Federal Application for Student Aid should be turned in as early as possible.