Documentation Guidelines - Requirements Engineering and Management for Software Development Projects - page 235

e. Dimensions
f. Percentages
g. Fractions

9. A zero shall appear before the decimal point if it is not preceded by a numeral.
10. Common decimals less than one shall be used in the singular but any number
greater than one shall be used in the plural.

A.3.6 Capitalization

Here are the guidelines in capitalization of letters:

1. Capitalize the first word and all other principal words in titles of topics, reports
or business documents. Examples:

a. Software Requirements Document
b. Analysis of the Tool for Project Management

2. Capitalize all the words of names used to identify organizations, places,
buildings etc. Examples:

a. Cyber Towers
b. International Business Machines Inc.
c. New York

3. Capitalize the first word of the following:
a. Complete sentences
b. Bullets
c. Quotations, only if the quotation is a complete statement. Example—Your
letter said ''Send the replacement by air.''

4. Do not capitalize words in the following:

a. General terms which do not identify a specific person, place or thing.

Examples—

i. ''a doctor (but Dr. Smith)

ii. our president (but President Regan)

iii. my uncle (but Uncle Rockefeller)

b. The names of seasons. Example—spring, summer, winter
c. Nouns used with numbers. Examples:

i. page 57

ii. type 1

iii. method 3