Writing Style Guide Glossary

(priest who heads a chapter or governing body of a cathedral): the Very Rev. (Name), dean of the cathedral

Race is understood as a social construct in which people are grouped according to common biological or physical traits. Ethnicity refers to…

Capitalize full, official names of departments and offices; lowercase other uses. Office of Public Affairs; public affairs office; public…

Capitalize as part of a proper name, such as the Episcopal Diocese of Rochester , but lowercase in all other instances: He was the fifth…

Lowercase north, south, east, west , etc., when used as a direction : Austin is south of Dallas. But capitalize when referring to the…

Use the title “Dr.” only in first references to those who hold the following “doctor of” degrees: dental surgery, medicine, optometry…

No hyphen.

Short quotation at the beginning of an article; sometimes these are used at the start of Episcopal Church department newsletters. Per…

When a quote is being used as an epigraph at the beginning of a work, no quotation marks are needed; use an em dash before the citation…

Episcopal is the adjective; use Episcopalian only as a noun referring to a member of The Episcopal Church: She is an Episcopalian, and she…