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Editorial Manual
Updates
Date | Page | Change |
26 June | Numbers |
Under Ordinals, percentiles were added as written in figures.
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26 June | Corrigenda |
Under Drafting, the following guidance was added: The footnote example was renumbered from 10 to 7 |
14 May | Style/Spelling | The entry "guardrail" was added as an exception |
6 May | Style/Spelling |
The entries: sociobiology, sociocultural, **sociodemographic, ***socioeconomic, *sociomedical and sociopolitical |
6 May | Footnotes | The guidelines under III. United Nations sources, A. Masthead documents, Documents issued under a double symbol, was updated as follows (new text in bold): There are exceptions to this practice. In the annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly and the Repertoire of the Practice of the Security Council, for example, only the Security Council symbol of the source document (the "S/" part of the double symbol) is cited. In the previous example, only "S/2000/809" would be cited. Conversely, in the annotated preliminary list of items to be included in the provisional agenda of the upcoming sessions of the General Assembly, only the General Assembly symbol of the source document (the "A/" part of the double symbol) is cited. Thus, in the previous example, only "A/55/305" would be cited. |
25 April | Mastheads and cover pages | The entry under Corner notation> Agenda was updated as follows:
In the case of the General Assembly, the reference is to an item of the preliminary list, or an item of the provisional agenda, or an item of the agenda as adopted at the start of the session. A footnote reference is provided for the preliminary list and the provisional agenda; there is no footnote for the annotated preliminary list or the adopted agenda, including any addenda |
11 April | Abbreviations | The following entries were added:
RSCE: Regional Service Centre in Entebbe, Uganda |
12 March | Instructions for the preparation of official documents | The following was added under "Revised texts":
For revised versions of reports, rules of procedure and provisional agendas, among others, ¡°revised¡± is not added to the title; the use of ¡°Rev.¡± in the symbol is sufficient to indicate that the document has been revised. The word ¡°revised¡± should, however, be included in the title of a revised draft resolution. |
28 February | Style/Spelling | The entry "noncommunicable" was added as an exception |
28 February | Capitalization | The entries "Contracting Party" and "Party" have been updated to reflect a change in practice in the capitalization of "Contracting Parties" and "States Parties" |
11 February | Style/Spelling | The entry "sub-option" was added |
24 January | Style/Spelling | The entry "eldercare" was added to the spelling list |
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13 December | Abbreviations | The following entry was added: JIU: Joint Inspection Unit |
4 November | Abbreviations | The following entry was added: UNTMIS: United Nations Transitional Assistance Mission in Somalia |
10 October | Policy questions | Added the link to the Secretariat policy on the preparation of official documents |
23 September | Style/Spelling | The entries for "health-care (adj.)" and "health care (noun)" have been superseded by healthcare (adj. and noun) |
23 September | Style/Spelling | The entry "citywide" was added to the spelling list |
11 September | Abbreviations | The following entry was added: AUSSOM: African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia |
9 September | Style/Spelling | The entry for "ill" has been updated as follows: ill: compound adjectives are hyphenated only when preceding a noun (e.g. an ill-designed project; the project is ill designed) except: ill-founded, ill-treated |
9 September | Style/Spelling | The following entries were added to the spelling list: single window (noun) and single-window (adjective) |
26 June | Capitalization | The following guidance (in bold) was added: All words in the titles of books, periodicals, publications and court cases (excluding "et al" and "others") except articles, conjunctions and preposition |
26 June | Footnotes |
A new example was added under IV. Outside sources, E. Legal references 8 European Court of Human Rights, Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia and others v. Moldova, Application No. 45701/99, Judgment, 13 December 2001.
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24 June | Footnotes | The guidelines under II. General instructions on footnotes and text notes, C. Excessive referencing, were updated as follows (new text in bold): C. Excessive referencing Authors are reminded that they should cite only sources that are strictly relevant and necessary. Commonly known or easily verifiable facts do not require a source note, nor should embedded hyperlinks be used. Excessive referencing undermines not only the overall readability of documents but also multilingualism, as many references do not exist in the six official languages of the United Nations, and reduces the accessibility of documents to persons with disabilities. Footnotes should account for no more than 10 per cent of the total word count of the document as submitted. [...] General references to sources. There is no need to reference each individual contribution to a document or publication. To acknowledge sources consulted Examples: Footnotes: 1 The analysis in this section is based on the evidence presented in the report of the Secretary-General on ¡ (A/xx/__). In text: The information contained in the present report is based on available data from the United Nations system, compiled from humanitarian agencies, partners and other relevant sources. Combined footnotes or text notes. The number of footnotes or text notes can sometimes be reduced by combining them, provided that no ambiguity results. Examples: Footnotes: |
30 May | Abbreviations | The guidelines were updated to "/dgacm/en/node/4395/addenda/indirect-speech/pbis/policy-questions/numbers-dates-time/spelling/Capitalization/abbreviations" throughout (instead of "abbreviations and acronyms"). |
30 May | Capitalization | The following entry was added: amendment first amendment to the Anti-Prostitution Law but Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America |
20 May | Capitalization | Under "Head", "heads of entity" was added as an example of when not to use capitalization |
20 May | Style/Italics and bold print | The following guidance was removed under "Italics are used for the following": The titles of laws and decrees in a foreign language |
20 May | Style/Spelling |
The following entries were added to the spelling list: |
20 May | Style/Numbers | The following guidance was added under "Roman numerals": Where there are more than 20 annexes, appendices, enclosures or attachments, they should normally be numbered with arabic numerals |
19 April | Style/Spelling |
The entry "schooldays" was added (the period in someone's life when they attended school) and the entry "schoolday" was changed to "*school day"(a day on which classes are held in a primary or secondary school) |
17 April | Style/Italics and bold print | "United Nations" was deleted before publications:
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17 April | Style/Spelling | The entries "consensus-building" and "constitution-making" were added to the spelling list |
28 March | Abbreviations | The entry for the World Tourism Organization was updated to UN Tourism |
19 March | Capitalization | The following capitalization guidance was added: Proper names for software, including components thereof, operating systems and devices. |
19 March | Maps and figures | The following guidance was added: In masthead documents, which are printed in black and white, maps and figures should be submitted in greyscale (see DGACM guide to document submission, section II, para. 3 (e)). |
19 March | Style/Spelling | The entry "chapeau" was added to the spelling list |
19 March | Mastheads and cover pages | The guidance on corner notations was updated: Not all of these elements apply to all documents (see models below). There is no need to include the place of the session in documents of the principal organs (General Assembly, Security Council and Economic and Social Council), nor of the Human Rights Council. However, the place of the session should be included in documents of the subsidiary bodies of those organs. |
11 March | Capitalization |
Court cases were added to titles that are capitalized: |
26 February | Style/Numbers, dates and time | The following guidance was added under "Ranges of dates": The use of ¡°through¡± as a temporal preposition, in the sense of ¡°up to and including¡±, should be avoided. Ranges of dates are assumed to be inclusive, unless otherwise indicated. |
26 February | Style/Spelling | The spelling list has been updated and no longer includes "formulae" as a plural for formula |
26 February | Style/Italics and bold print | The guidance on the use of italics has been updated as follows: The names of ships and other vessels, e.g. HMS Frolic, the British ship Frolic; SS United States, the United States; MV Helena; the submarine Le Redoutable |
24 January | Style/Spelling | The entry "re-enfranchise" was added |
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15 December | Style/Spelling | The entry "polycrisis" was added |
21 November | Punctuation |
The following guidance was added: The use of the slash (/) is discouraged since its meaning is unclear. Usually it can be replaced by ¡°and¡± or ¡°or¡±. The term ¡°and/or¡± should not be used as a replacement. |
10 November | Indirect or reported speech |
The following note was added under Verb tenses, present to past tense: However, in summary records, the verb is always changed from the present to the past: The speaker noted that, under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, everyone had the right to life, liberty and security of person. |
9 November | Abbreviations | The following entries were added under abbreviations for weights and measures: MJ megajoules EJ exajoules GW gigawatts |
9 November | Footnotes |
The following guidance has been added under Points of style, General instructions on footnotes and text notes: Use of "e.g." and "i.e." |
30 October | Style/Spelling |
Following the adoption of the online Oxford Dictionary as the authority for spelling in United Nations documents, the following entries have been updated: Baath party to Baath Party |
14 September | Style/Spelling | The entry M¨¡ori was added |
24 August | Style/Spelling | The entry "strived" (not "strove" or "striven") was added |
15 August | Footnotes | The following example was added to Legal references: Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Herrera Ulloa v. Costa Rica, Judgment, 2 July 2004, paras. 166 and 167. |
15 August | Style/Abbreviations | The following entry was added to the acronyms and abbreviations list:
CSTO: Collective Security Treaty Organization |
31 July | Style/Abbreviations | The following entry was added to the acronyms and abbreviations list:
UNICRI: United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute |
21 July | Numbers, date and time |
The following example was added under Ordinals: The candidate was ranked eighty-third out of 189 applicants. |
11 July | Capitalization | The guidance for proper names transliterated from Arabic was updated as follows:
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11 July | Style/Spelling | The entry "truth-seeking (noun and adj.)" was added |
26 May | Footnotes | The guidance for Outside sources, Multimedia sources was updated as follows:
References to audiovisual material and other multimedia content include the following elements: Examples: |
26 May | Style/Italics |
The entry on italics was updated to read: |
26 May | Style/Spelling | The entry "convener" was added |
18 May | Style/Spelling | The entry "peacekeeping-intelligence (noun and adj.)" was added |
15 May | Footnotes | An example was updated under Court cases and related documents |
15 May | Style/Spelling | The entries "carve out (verb)" and "carveout (noun)" were added |
8 May | Style/Spelling |
The entries "digitalize (adapt a system or process)" and "digitize (convert material into a digital format)" were added |
8 May | Numbers, dates and time |
The example using an en dash to link to numbers was updated as follows: An en dash (¨C): A substantial increase in production (12¨C14 per cent) is expected. For more examples of the use of the en dash, see Punctuation. |
8 May | Punctuation | The examples under "En dash" were updated: pp. 17¨C19 (but pp. 17 and 18) paras. 19¨C21 (but paras. 19 and 20) para. 73 (b)¨C(e) (but para. 73 (b) and (c)) |
3 May | Style/Spelling | The entry "liveable" was added |
20 April | Style/Spelling | The entry "cost-sharing" was added |
23 March | Style/Abbreviations | The entry "KC (King's Counsel)" was added |
16 March | Footnotes | The example for "Two consecutive page/paragraph numbers" was updated to read "pp./paras. 17 and 18" |
16 March | Mastheads and cover pages | Under "Corner notation: agenda", the following was added: A footnote reference is provided for the preliminary list and the provisional agenda; there is no footnote for the annotated preliminary list or the adopted agenda |
16 March | Punctuation | The entry for Apostrophe was edited to read: An apostrophe (¡¯²õ or ²õ¡¯) is not used with an abbreviation or acronym, the name of a country or the name of a body, for example, an intergovernmental organization, a court or a government ministry. |
16 March | Capitalization | "seat of government" was added as an example under Government |
16 March | Style/Spelling | The entry "gender-responsive" was added |
2 March | Capitalization | Under delegation, the following was added: but Delegation if used as equivalent of Permanent Mission: the Delegation of the European Union |
17 February | Footnotes | An example was added for citing specific subparagraphs within a paragraph |
17 February | Footnotes | An example of a shortened legal reference was added under repeated references |
17 February | Style/Spelling | The entry "web map" was added |
30 January | Punctuation | Examples were added under "Colon". |
5 January | Capitalization | The section on proper names transliterated from Arabic was updated to read: The same rule applies to bin, bint and ibn; for example Osama bin Laden, Mr. Bin Hamdan, Khawlah bint al-Azwar, Ms. Bint al-Azwar, Abu al-Walid ibn Rushd (Averro?s), Ibn Sina (Avicenna). |
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1 December | Style/Spelling | The entries "capacity development (noun)" and "capacity-development (adj.)" were added |
15 November | Capitalization | The entry on "Organization" was edited to read: when used as a short title for the United Nations or for an entity name containing ¡°Organization¡±; and a separate entry for organizational was added |
15 November | Style/Spelling | The entry "fact sheet" was added |
3 November | Capitalization |
Indigenous should be capitalized when referring to cultures, communities, lands, languages, etc., of Indigenous Peoples, e.g.: Indigenous culture in Ecuador, Indigenous languages are dying out. If referring to flora or fauna, lower case should be used. |
29 September | Style/Spelling | The entry "workstream" was added |
12 September | Footnotes | The following guidance was added to points of style: The name of the organization is spelled out, not abbreviated, unless the abbreviation has been defined in a previous footnote, previously in the text or in a list of abbreviations at the beginning of the text. |
12 September | Style/Abbreviations | The general guidelines were updated as follows:
When they are used, abbreviations and acronyms should always be explained. The name or title should be written out in full the first time it occurs in the main body of a document, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter, the abbreviation may be used in footnotes, figures, tables and boxes. If an abbreviation or acronym first appears in a footnote, figure, table or box, it should be written out in full again the first time it is used in the main body of the document. Alternatively, if a document contains numerous abbreviations and acronyms, a list may be included after the table of contents or at the end of the document if there is no table of contents. A list of abbreviations and acronyms applies to the main document and to any annexes or attachments to it. |
7 September | Style/Spelling | The entry "duty bearer" was added |
25 August | Style/Spelling | The entry "rights holder (not hyphenated)" was added |
24 August | Style/Abbreviations | COVID-19 was added to the list of abbreviations |
13 July | The entries "sub-goal" and "intra-African" were added | |
24 June | The entries "credentialled" and "credentialling" were added | |
3 June |