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Revisions to the GAO Editorial Style Manual

OPC-87-1 Published: Jul 01, 1987. Publicly Released: Jun 16, 1988.
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GAO revised its style manual, expanding and clarifying its guidance on compounding, acronyms, rephrasing bureaucratic language, capitalizing position titles, punctuating items in a series, numerals, quoted material, footnotes, bibliographies, legal citations, sexism in language, tables, and miscellaneous topics.

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