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names, personal

See also academic titles.

In text, the first reference should include full name; later references last name only. Repeat first name only to avoid confusion with someone else with the same last name.

nationalities

See compound nationalities.

newspaper names

If the name of a newspaper you’re citing includes the city but not the state, and the city is not on the Associated Press Stylebook’s list of stand-alone cities (see cities, US), use the following style: Oberlin (Ohio) News-Tribune. Note that the name of the Star Tribune, which is published in the Twin Cities, does not include a city name.

Do not italicize when it represents an employer. She was employed by the New York Times until 2020.

nicknames

Use quotation marks, not parentheses, for nicknames: Muriel “Tootsie” Smith Jones ’55.

numbers

Note: As of 2021, Macalester is adopting Chicago’s general rule for numbering (9.2). Spell out numbers from one to one hundred; use figures for numbers higher than one hundred:

He was only twenty-three when he died. At 103, she was the longest-living resident in the nursing home. For consistency within a sentence, the rule can be modified: While she lived to 102, her son was only 50 when he died.

This is the tenth edition of the book. The college is celebrating its 120th anniversary.*

Spell out and lower-case centuries: The twentieth century saw many breakthroughs in science. She teaches nineteenth-century English literature.

Decades can be spelled out or expressed as numbers: nineteen-sixties and nineteen-seventies, or 1960s and 1970s. If abbreviated, use an apostrophe to indicate the missing information: ’60s and ’70s.

For the twenty-first century, make the decade clear: the 2000s is ambiguous. For 2000–2009, refer to the first decade of the twenty-first century. The years 2010–2019 are referred to as the 2010s.