A-Z House Style Guide
- ie #
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Don’t follow it with punctuation; never separate it with dots. Do introduce it with a comma and a space, eg …underage customers, ie under 18s.
- initials #
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No full stops after initials (eg T Huddlestone, HG Wells, JWB Phelps) or abbreviations. See also abbreviations and acronyms.
- integral mission #
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God’s mission to redeem and restore the whole of creation, bringing life in all its fullness (spiritually as well as emotionally and physically), is known as integral mission. We are called to participate in this mission.
- Internally Displaced People (IDP/IDPs) #
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People who flee their home for safety but remain within their own country
NB: this is different to refugee who flees to another country for safety.
- italics #
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For publication names, use italics and capitalise words apart from transition words (Tear Times, The Guardian, Global Action, Church in Focus). The same goes for church packs (Alive, Work a Miracle), product names (Mean Bean Challenge, Big Quiz Night), campaign names (Make Poverty History, Rubbish Campaign) and events (Tearfund Live, The Justice Conference, Declaration, Big Church Day Out). Names of organisations (eg Tearfund, Oxfam etc) are not italicised. If individual words are italicised, check punctuation (even full stops) is not in italics, even if the previous words are – it’ll show. I bought The Times, The Observer and The Independent. If a whole sentence is in italics, its punctuation should be too. Basically, if it’s the name of something, use italics and caps as per this rule.
Headlines and sub-headings are not in italics.
Song titles and album titles should be in italics too, but names of bands/singers should be non italic eg Divide by Ed Sheeran was one of the best selling albums of 2018.
- Ivory Coast/Côte d’Ivoire #
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Country in west Africa.
For general use including main website and other supporter comms, use Ivory Coast.
For overseas or certain international publications, where Ivory Coast would be inappropriate, use Côte d’Ivoire.