SCU Editorial Style Guide
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- obituaries
Don't use current year with dates.
- She died March 3 in San Jose.
- NOT She died March 3, 2010.
Use courtesy titles Mr., Mrs. when referring to the deceased in an obituary.
- office
All nonacademic areas are offices, not departments:
- the Purchasing Office
- the Office of Housing
- Residential Life
- Office of Marketing and Communications
- On second reference lowercase and use as marketing and communications office.
- Office of Student Life
- Use on first reference, especially in news releases. On second reference, student life office is acceptable.
- Official names
Informal title or acronym in brackets:
- Automated Retrieval System (ARS)
- Career Center
- Center for Multicultural Learning (CML)
- Center for Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
- Center for Student Leadership (CSL)
- Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SCU-CIE)
- Center for Social Justice and Public Service
- Center of Performing Arts (CPA)
- Center for Professional Development
- Civil Society Institute
- Competitive Manufacturing Institute (CMI)
- Cowell Student Health Center
- The John B. Drahmann Academic Advising and Learning Resources Center (Drahmann Center)
- East Side Future Teachers Project
- E-commerce Initiative
- Engineering Design Center (EDC)
- Environmental Studies Institute (ESI)
- Executive Development Center (EDC)
- Food and Agribusiness Institute (FAI)
- High Tech Law Institute
- Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education
- Pedro Arrupe, S.J., Partnerships for Community-Based Learning (Arrupe Center)
- Bannan Institute for Jesuit Educational Mission (Bannan Center)
- DISCOVER project (acronym; stands for Developing and Inspiring Scholarly Communities Oriented toward Vocational Engagement and Reflection)
- Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., Solidarity Program (Kolvenbach program)
- The Spirituality and Health Institute
- Institute for Information Storage Technology (IIST)
- Institute for Spirituality and Organizational Leadership
- Institute of International and Comparative Law
- Joanne E. Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Family Technology Center, and Orradre Library (acceptable second reference is learning commons, technology center, and library)
- Katharine and George Alexander Community Law Center (formerly the East San Jose Community Law Center)
- Lucas Hall
- Markkula Center for Applied Ethics (Ethics Center)
- Multicultural Center (MCC; this is a student organization, should not be confused with Center for Multicultural Learning)
- Northern California Innocence Project
- Retail Management Institute (RMI)
- Sullivan Aquatic Center
- Wellness Center
- OK
- Do not use okay.
- on campus
No hyphen:
- Visitors are welcome on campus.
But include hyphen if the words are used as an adjective:
- On-campus parking is available.
- online, offline
No hyphen.
- OSCAR
- Online Santa Clara Automated Retrieval (online library catalog)
- Over vs. More than
Over generally refers to spatial relationships:
- The plane flew over the city.
More than is used with numerals:
- Their salaries went up more than $20 a week.
- overall
- One word.
