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References are to paragraph numbers except where specified as table, figure (fig.), or page number (p.). Page numbers in the online edition link directly to terms in the glossary (appendix B).
- O’, 16.74
- O and oh, 6.37, 7.45
- oaths, 8.83
- oceans, 5.67, 8.44, 8.52
- o’clock, 9.38–39, 10.42
- OCR (optical character recognition), 2.40, 10.52, p. 898
- of, 7.24, 7.27
- offprints, 1.48, A.39, p. 898
- offset printing
- definition, p. 898
- of-genitive, 5.20, 5.187
- of whom, of which, 5.60–61
- Old English, 7.46, 11.142–43
- old series (o.s.), 14.132
- Old Testament
- books listed, 10.48
- capitalization, 8.105
- See also Bible
- online media
- documentation of: audiovisual materials, generally, 14.274; books, 14.167, 14.169; dictionaries and encyclopedias, 14.247–48; legal and public documents, 14.282; multimedia, 14.280; sound recordings, 14.277
- titles of, 8.186–87
- See also electronic publications
- only, 5.182
- op. (musical works), 8.191
- op. cit., 10.43, 14.31
- open-source model, 4.57
- operas, 8.189. See also musical works
- optical character recognition (OCR), 2.40, 10.52, p. 898
- or
- pronoun and antecedent with, 5.32–34
- slash instead of, 6.104
- See also conjunctions
- ordinal numbers, 9.6
- day of the month as, 9.32
- in foreign languages, 11.30
- in legal-style citations, 14.286
- numbered streets, 9.52
- permissible changes to, 14.96
- successive governments and dynasties, 9.46
- styling of, 9.6
- organizations
- abbreviations used in, list of, 10.72
- names: abbreviations, 10.24; acronyms, 16.64; articles in, 8.67, 16.88; as authors, 14.92, 15.36; in documentation, 14.92, 15.36; foreign-language, 11.8, 11.29; indexing of, 16.46, 16.64, 16.88–89; numbered branches of, 9.50; periodical titles in, 8.170; place-names within, 6.46, 6.81; possessives of, 7.19; treatment in text, 8.61–69
- original expression and originality, 4.3, 4.5, 4.68. See also intellectual property rights
- ornaments for text break, 1.56
- orphans (lines), 2.113, p. 899
- “orphan works” problem, 4.75
- o.s. (old series), 14.132
- outlines
- basic principles, 6.121
- parts of a book, 1.4
- See also lists
- Oxford comma, 6.18–21. See also commas