X. MISCELLANEOUS

A. Addresses

1) Use Postal Service state abbreviations with no periods in addresses.

2) Items in addresses should be listed in the following order:

            Name, Title
            College
            Office, Agency, Center
            Department
            Institution
            Street or Building, Room or Suite
            City, State, Zip Code

            Dr. Linda B. Salane
            Executive Director of The Leadership Institute
            Columbia College
            Breed Leadership Center
            1301 Columbia College Drive
            Columbia, SC 29203

B. Electronic Conventions

1) Internet, Web, and e-mail addresses should be written all lowercase, unless the address is case sensitive.

2) Internet, World Wide Web, and their shortened forms are treated as proper nouns and capitalized in all instances.

the Web, the Net, WWW

3) Preferred spellings of electronic terms:

            •online, not on-line
            •e-mail, not email
            •homepage (lowercased in text)
            •Web site, not website or Website
            •CD-ROM, DVD (all uppercase)

Usage Note: The transition from World Wide Web site to Web site to website as a single uncapitalized word mirrors the development of other technological expressions which have tended to take unhyphenated forms as they become more familiar. Thus email is gaining ground over the forms E-mail and e-mail, especially in texts that are more technologically oriented. Similarly, there is an increasing preference for closed forms like homepage, online, and printout.

4) A long URL or e-mail address may be broken by a hyphen at the end of a line. The hyphen should be placed after the period or slash, i.e. treat the period or slash as the end of a syllable.

C. Year 2000 and Beyond

1) When writing any span of time that mixes 20th- and 21st-century dates, the full year must be given for both.

1998–2006, not 1998–06

2) When citing class designations, if classes from the 20th and 21st centuries are listed, the full year must be given for all classes mentioned.

When the time capsule placed by the Class of 1957 is opened, the Class of 2007 will replace it with one of their own.

3) Do not attach the phrase the year to 2000 or beyond. Treat such references as any other year noted.

Columbia College celebrated its sesquicentennial in 2005.

D. Specifying B.C. or A.D. (also, B.C.E. or C.E.)

1) When attaching B.C. or A.D. to a year, B.C. follows the date, and A.D. precedes the date. (Note that any date that is not B.C. is A.D. by default and requires no specific designation.)

2) When referring to a century in text, the convention of placing either B.C. or A.D. after the stated century is acceptable.

3) When using B.C.E. or C.E., always place these designations after the year cited.

E. Degrees listed with alumnae/i names
When listing earned degrees with alumni names, the preferred order is: year, degree name (lowercase), discipline (if listed, lowercase). Do not place a comma between the year and degree name, but do place a comma between the degree name and discipline. Use of parentheses around degree information is optional.

            Julia Smith, 1997 law
            Julia Smith, 1995 master’s
            Julia Smith, 1993 B.A., English
            Julia Smith (1995 master’s, English)