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e-terms

e-business (exception: BYU’s Rollins Center for eBusiness, e.g., “The Marriott School hosts a top-ranked e-business research facility called the Rollins Center for eBusiness.”); E-business (beginning word in a line)

e-commerce (in text); E-commerce (beginning word in a line)

email or e-mail; Email or E-mail (beginning word in a line)

email addresses: Usually no caps are necessary, though Unix machines are case sensitive. To avoid confusion, an address that contains a hyphen should never be broken at the hyphen; nor should a hyphen be added to break an email address or URL.

e-merchants

e-recruiting (Career Placement Services)

e.g.

exempli gratia (for example)—not to be confused with i.e.; term is preceded and followed by commas

early-morning seminary

Earth Science Museum

ecclesiastical endorsement

Continuing Student Ecclesiastical Endorsement (don’t add word Form); Continuing Student Ecclesiastical Endorsement interview

editor/commander in chief (Webster’s)

Electronic Handbook of University Organization, Policies, and Procedures; BYU Electronic Handbook; electronic handbook

emeritus, professor; professor emeritus of art; General Authority Emeritus

Encore (Performing Arts Management newsletter)

Engineering and Technology, Ira A. Fulton College of

Enter to Learn; Go Forth to Serve

If you choose to capitalize the initial letters, do not enclose in quotation marks (Enter to Learn; Go Forth to Serve). If you choose to capitalize only the first word of the motto/slogan and leave the rest of the words lowercased, then enclose in quotation marks (“Enter to learn; go forth to serve”). (See also 15th Chicago 6:52–6.54, 8:209–10.)

et al.

et alii or et alia (and others)—normally used of persons; no period after et

etc.

et cetera (and so forth)

Ethernet (Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age)

Evening Classes; Evening Classes office

exams

American Government or Comparative Government Advanced Placement Exam
Comprehensive English Examination
Senior Proficiency Examination
Sophomore Examination

Expo 89 (Logos such as this one used for a world’s fair do not include an apostrophe before the year.)

ext., Ext.

ext. in text; Ext. on forms; whole telephone number, (801) 422-____, usually preferred in text