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Editorial Manual 

Updates

 

Date Page Change
4 November Abbreviations The following entry was added:
UNTMIS: United Nations Transitional Assistance Mission in Somalia
10 October Policy questions Added the link to the Secretariat policy on the preparation of official documents
23 September Style/Spelling The entries for "health-care (adj.)" and "health care (noun)" have been superseded by healthcare (adj. and noun)
23 September Style/Spelling The entry "citywide" was added to the spelling list
11 September Abbreviations The following entry was added:
AUSSOM: African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia 
9 September  Style/Spelling The entry for "ill" has been updated as follows:
ill: compound adjectives are hyphenated only when preceding a noun
    (e.g. an ill-designed project; the project is ill designed) except:
ill-founded, ill-treated
9 September Style/Spelling The following entries were added to the spelling list: single window (noun) and single-window (adjective)
26 June Capitalization The following guidance (in bold) was added:
All words in the titles of books, periodicals, publications and court cases (excluding "et al" and "others")  except articles, conjunctions and preposition
26 June Footnotes

A new example was added under IV. Outside sources, E. Legal references

European Court of Human Rights, Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia and others v. Moldova, Application No. 45701/99, Judgment, 13 December 2001.

 

24 June Footnotes The guidelines under II. General instructions on footnotes and text notes, C. Excessive referencing, were updated as follows (new text in bold):
C.   Excessive referencing
Authors are reminded that they should cite only sources that are strictly relevant and necessary. Commonly known or easily verifiable facts do not require a source note, nor should embedded hyperlinks be used. Excessive referencing undermines not only the overall readability of documents but also multilingualism, as many references do not exist in the six official languages of the United Nations, and reduces the accessibility of documents to persons with disabilities.
Footnotes should account for no more than 10 per cent of the total word count of the document as submitted. 

[...]
General references to sources. There is no need to reference each individual contribution to a document or publication. To acknowledge sources consulted used extensively in preparing a document or publication and substantiate the information reported while avoiding multiple footnotes or text notes, a general reference can be given in a single footnote or at an appropriate place in the text. 

Examples:

Footnotes:

1 The analysis in this section is based on the evidence presented in the report of the Secretary-General on ¡­ (A/xx/__).
1 Unless otherwise indicated, the findings in the present report are sourced from ____
1  The present report is based on an analysis of the information contained in the responses received. The responses are on file with the Secretariat.

In text:
The present report is based on contributions from __Member States and __United Nations entities. The contributions are on file with the Secretariat.

The information contained in the present report is based on available data from the United Nations system, compiled from humanitarian agencies, partners and other relevant sources.

Combined footnotes or text notes. The number of footnotes or text notes can sometimes be reduced by combining them, provided that no ambiguity results.

Examples:

Footnotes:
____________
1 The draft resolution (S/2012/77), sponsored by Bahrain, Colombia, Egypt, France, Germany, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America, received 13 votes in favour (Azerbaijan, Colombia, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Morocco, Pakistan, Portugal, South Africa, Togo, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America) and 2 against (China and Russian Federation). It was sponsored by Bahrain, Colombia, Egypt, France, Germany, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America.

30 May Abbreviations The guidelines were updated to "/dgacm/en/content/editorial-manual/updates/abbreviations" throughout (instead of "abbreviations and acronyms").
30 May Capitalization The following entry was added:
amendment
         first amendment to the Anti-Prostitution Law
        but Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
20 May Capitalization Under "Head", "heads of entity" was added as an example of when not to use capitalization 
20 May Style/Italics and bold print The following guidance was removed under "Italics are used for the following":
The titles of laws and decrees in a foreign language
20 May Style/Spelling

The following entries were added to the spelling list:
amid (not "amidst")
counterspace

20 May Style/Numbers The following guidance was added under "Roman numerals": 
Where there are more than 20 annexes, appendices, enclosures or attachments, they should normally be numbered with arabic numerals
19 April Style/Spelling

The entry "schooldays" was added (the period in someone's life when they attended school) and the entry "schoolday"  was changed to "*school day"(a day on which classes are held in a primary or secondary school)

17 April Style/Italics and bold print "United Nations" was deleted before publications: 

  • The titles of books, publications, CD-ROMs, periodicals, newspapers, films, plays, radio and television programmes, podcast series and works of art
17 April Style/Spelling The entries "consensus-building" and "constitution-making" were added to the spelling list
28 March Abbreviations The entry for the World Tourism Organization was updated to Ãå±±½ûµØTourism
19 March Capitalization The following capitalization guidance was added:
Proper names for software, including components thereof, operating systems and devices.
19 March Maps and figures The following guidance was added:
In masthead documents, which are printed in black and white, maps and figures should be submitted in greyscale (see DGACM guide to document submission, section II, para. 3 (e)).
19 March  Style/Spelling The entry "chapeau" was added to the spelling list
19 March  Mastheads and cover pages The guidance on corner notations was updated:
Not all of these elements apply to all documents (see models below). There is no need to include the place of the session in documents of the principal organs (General Assembly, Security Council and Economic and Social Council), nor of the Human Rights CouncilHowever, the place of the session should be included in documents of the subsidiary bodies of those organs. 
11 March Capitalization

Court cases were added to titles that are capitalized: 
All words in the titles of books, periodicals, publications and court cases except articles, conjunctions and prepositions

26 February Style/Numbers, dates and time The following guidance was added under "Ranges of dates":
The use of ¡°through¡± as a temporal preposition, in the sense of ¡°up to and including¡±, should be avoided. Ranges of dates are assumed to be inclusive, unless otherwise indicated.
26 February Style/Spelling The spelling list has been updated and no longer includes "formulae" as a plural for formula 
26 February Style/Italics and bold print The guidance on the use of italics has been updated as follows:
The names of ships and other vessels, e.g. HMS Frolic, the British ship Frolic; SS United States, the United States; MV Helena; the submarine Le Redoutable
24 January Style/Spelling The entry "re-enfranchise" was added
2023
15 December Style/Spelling The entry "polycrisis" was added
21 November Punctuation

The following guidance was added:

The use of the slash (/) is discouraged since its meaning is unclear. Usually it can be replaced by ¡°and¡± or ¡°or¡±. The term ¡°and/or¡± should not be used as a replacement.

10 November Indirect or reported speech

The following note was added under Verb tenses, present to past tense:

However, in summary records, the verb is always changed from the present to the past:

The speaker noted that, under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, everyone had the right to life, liberty and security of person.

9 November Abbreviations The following entries were added under abbreviations for weights and measures:
MJ megajoules
EJ exajoules
GW gigawatts
9 November Footnotes

The following guidance has been added under Points of style, General instructions on footnotes and text notes:

Use of "e.g." and "i.e."
The phrases "for example" and "that is" (or "namely") are not abbreviated to  "e.g." or "i.e." in sentences, including in the running text of footnotes. The abbreviations may be used, without a comma after them, if they are enclosed within parentheses.

30 October  Style/Spelling

Following the adoption of the online Oxford Dictionary as the authority for spelling in United Nations documents, the following entries have been updated:

Baath party to Baath Party
charge-back to chargeback
law-making to lawmaking
mid-season to midseason
mid-size to midsize
pre-modern to premodern
pre-screen to prescreen
pre-register to preregister
roll-back (v) to rollback
white-list to whitelist

14 September Style/Spelling The entry M¨¡ori was added
24 August Style/Spelling The entry "strived" (not "strove" or "striven") was added 
15 August Footnotes The following example was added to Legal references:
Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Herrera Ulloa v. Costa Rica, Judgment, 2 July 2004, paras. 166 and 167.
15 August Style/Abbreviations The following entry was added to the acronyms and abbreviations list:

CSTO: Collective Security Treaty Organization

31 July Style/Abbreviations The following entry was added to the acronyms and abbreviations list:

UNICRI: United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute 

21 July Numbers, date and time

The following example was added under Ordinals: 

The candidate was ranked eighty-third out of 189 applicants.

11 July Capitalization The guidance for proper names transliterated from Arabic was updated as follows:

  • The definite article al is capitalized when it is the first element in a name (including after Mr. or Ms. or other title) and lower-case when it is in the middle; for example Al-Jazeera, Al-Qaida, Mohammed al-Ansari, Mr. Al-Ansari. The same practice applies to el, where used. 
11 July Style/Spelling The entry "truth-seeking (noun and adj.)" was added
26 May Footnotes The guidance for Outside sources, Multimedia sources was updated as follows:

References to audiovisual material and other multimedia content include the following elements: 
          1.  Author or organization responsible for the material 
          2. Title (in quotation marks) 
          3. Series title (if relevant)
          4.  Format 
          5.  Date posted or last updated, if indicated 
          6.  Location of citation (in hh:mm:ss format; optional) 
          7.  "Available at" URL (should be omitted if the reference is easily located through a web search) 
          8.  Date accessed (in parentheses), if no date is indicated on the material (optional) 

Examples: 
BBC, "Iran nuclear deal 'must be preserved'", video, 3 May 2018. 
United Nations, "Keeping the peace", UNcomplicated, podcast, 13 February 2020. 

26 May  Style/Italics

The entry on italics was updated to read:
The titles of books, United Nations publications, CD-ROMs, periodicals, newspapers, films, plays, radio and television programmes, podcast series and works of art

26 May Style/Spelling The entry "convener" was added
18 May Style/Spelling The entry "peacekeeping-intelligence (noun and adj.)" was added
15 May Footnotes An example was updated under Court cases and related documents
15 May Style/Spelling The entries "carve out (verb)" and "carveout (noun)" were added
8 May Style/Spelling

The entries "digitalize (adapt a system or process)" and "digitize (convert material into a digital format)" were added

8 May Numbers, dates and time

The example using an en dash to link to numbers was updated as follows: 

An en dash (¨C): A substantial increase in production (12¨C14 per cent) is expected. For more examples of the use of the en dash, see Punctuation.

8 May Punctuation The examples under "En dash" were updated:         
pp. 17¨C19 (but pp. 17 and 18)
paras. 19¨C21 (but paras. 19 and 20)
para. 73 (b)¨C(e) (but para. 73 (b) and (c))
3 May Style/Spelling The entry "liveable" was added
20 April Style/Spelling The entry "cost-sharing" was added
23 March Style/Abbreviations The entry "KC (King's Counsel)" was added 
16 March Footnotes The example for "Two consecutive page/paragraph numbers" was updated to read "pp./paras. 17 and 18"
16 March Mastheads and cover pages Under "Corner notation: agenda", the following was added: A footnote reference is provided for the preliminary list and the provisional agenda; there is no footnote for the annotated preliminary list or the adopted agenda
16 March  Punctuation The entry for Apostrophe was edited to read: An apostrophe (¡¯²õ or ²õ¡¯) is not used with an abbreviation or acronym, the name of a country or the name of a body, for example, an intergovernmental organization, a court or a government ministry.
16 March Capitalization "seat of government" was added as an example under Government
16 March Style/Spelling The entry "gender-responsive" was added
2 March Capitalization Under delegation, the following was added: but Delegation if used as equivalent of Permanent Mission: the Delegation of the European Union
17 February Footnotes An example was added for citing specific subparagraphs within a paragraph
17 February Footnotes An example of a shortened legal reference was added under repeated references
17 February Style/Spelling The entry "web map" was added
30 January Punctuation Examples were added under "Colon". 
5 January  Capitalization The section on proper names transliterated from Arabic was updated to read: The same rule applies to bin, bint and ibn; for example Osama bin Laden, Mr. Bin Hamdan, Khawlah bint al-Azwar, Ms. Bint al-Azwar, Abu al-Walid ibn Rushd (Averro?s), Ibn Sina (Avicenna).
2022
1 December Style/Spelling The entries "capacity development (noun)" and "capacity-development (adj.)" were added
15 November Capitalization The entry on "Organization" was edited to read: when used as a short title for the United Nations or for an entity name containing ¡°Organization¡±; and a separate entry for organizational was added 
15 November Style/Spelling The entry "fact sheet" was added 
3 November Capitalization

Indigenous should be capitalized when referring to cultures, communities, lands, languages, etc., of Indigenous Peoples, e.g.: Indigenous culture in Ecuador, Indigenous languages are dying out. If referring to flora or fauna, lower case should be used.

29 September Style/Spelling The entry "workstream" was added 
12 September Footnotes The following guidance was added to points of style: 
The name of the organization is spelled out, not abbreviated, unless the abbreviation has been defined in a previous footnote, previously in the text or in a list of abbreviations at the beginning of the text.
12 September  Style/Abbreviations The general guidelines were updated as follows: 

When they are used, abbreviations and acronyms should always be explained. The name or title should be written out in full the first time it occurs in the main body of a document, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter, the abbreviation may be used in footnotes, figures, tables and boxes. If an abbreviation or acronym first appears in a footnote, figure, table or box, it should be written out in full again the first time it is used in the main body of the document.

Alternatively, if a document contains numerous abbreviations and acronyms, a list may be included after the table of contents or at the end of the document if there is no table of contents. A list of abbreviations and acronyms applies to the main document and to any annexes or attachments to it.

7 September Style/Spelling The entry "duty bearer" was added 
25 August Style/Spelling The entry "rights holder (not hyphenated)" was added 
24 August Style/Abbreviations COVID-19 was added to the list of abbreviations
13 July The entries "sub-goal" and "intra-African" were added 
24 June The entries "credentialled" and "credentialling" were added
3 June Footnotes The guidance for Documents issued under a double symbol was updated to read: Both symbols, joined by a hyphen, are included in a footnote or text note.
27 May  Style/Spelling The entry "data-sharing" was added 
27 May Style/Spelling The entry "asylum seeker" was updated to "asylum-seeker"
26 May The following guidance was added to court cases and related documents:  
2.  Title of court case (in italics; retain "et al" if used, do not change to "and others"
25 May Numbers, dates and time The following instruction was added to the information on telephone numbers: use a plus sign (+) before the country code
4 May Style/Abbreviations ATMIS was added to the list of abbreviations
26 April Home page Contact email address for New York was changed to etesfrontdesk@un.org 
26 April Style/Spelling The entry "after-service" was added
22 April Documents relating to programme budget implications Document models were updated
22 April Style/Spelling The entries "tear gas" (noun) and tear-gas (adj.) were added
31 March Style/Spelling The entry "subject matter (noun)" was updated to "subject matter (not hyphenated)"
22 March  Style/Spelling The following entries were added or updated (updates are in bold): 
end-user (adj.)
middleman (preferred: intermediary) 
predawn
*seafloor
sub-seafloor
*year-on-year
25 February Style/Abbreviations PDF was added to the list of abbreviations
25 February Style/Abbreviations GIF was added to the list of abbreviations
16 February Style/Abbreviations SIM was added to the list of abbreviations
27 January Style/Spelling The entry "Da¡¯esh" was moved from Abbreviations and acronyms to the spelling list
2021    
10 November Style/Spelling  The entry "tele-health" was updated to "telehealth" in the spelling list
2 November Style/Spelling  The entry "de-risk" was added to the spelling list
8 October Style/Spelling  The following entry was added to the spelling list: neuro: compound forms are closed
27 September Corrigenda and reissues

The following updates were made to the entry on Corrigenda and reissues (new language in bold):

Drafting: If a correction consists of a complete sentence phrased like an instruction (i.e. does not contain text for deletion or insertion), normal punctuation is used.

Example: The title of document A/60/496 should read as above. 
(See also the examples under Corrigendum to withdraw a document or correct a symbol and Corrigendum to replace a table and those for the corner notation and the title under Corrigendum to correct original language, corner notation or title, below.)

Corrigendum to correct original language, corner notation or title: When a corrigendum is issued to correct the agenda items or any other element in the corner notation, or to correct the title or subtitle (see models 7 and 8), the corrigendum is prepared with the correct information, and the text is phrased like an instruction

23 September Footnotes The guidance on citing Internet sources has been updated to read: The prefix may be deleted when the URL contains "www" (e.g. ).
21 July Style/Abbreviations The entry "Da¡¯esh" was added to the list
21 July Style/Capitalization

Under "Organization" the following was added "but organizational even if in reference to the Organization"

14 July Main page The link to the "Guidelines for disability-inclusive language" was added to the main page
16 June Footnotes The disclaimer under Electronic sources was updated to read: "Information on uniform resource locators and links to websites contained in the present publication are provided for the convenience of the reader and are correct at the time of issuance."
10 June Style/Spelling  The entries "roll back (verb)" and "roll forward (noun and verb)" were added to the spelling list
10 June Headings The font size for chapter or main section headings was changed from 17-pt bold to 20-pt bold. 
8 June 2021 Footnotes The guidance on Articles in a newspaper was updated to read: "The name of a newspaper should be given as it appears in the masthead. The initial article is retained, in italics, when it is part of the name of a newspaper, both in footnotes and in running text (e.g., Al-Ahram, The New York Times, Le Monde, El Pa¨ªs). If part of the actual title, an ampersand (&) should be retained."
8 June 2021 Footnotes  The guidance on Articles in a periodical was updated to read: "The initial article is retained, in italics, when it is part of the name of the periodical, both in footnotes and in running text." 
3 June 2021 Tables The following was added under Abbreviations: "Dates should be written out in full: 1 January 2021. If there is not enough space, the month may be abbreviated: 1 Jan. 2021. In order to avoid confusion, dates should not be abbreviated in a numbers-only format, e.g. 1/1/2021."
1 June 2021 Style/Abbreviations The following was included under General guidelines: ¡°Forms of address such as ¡°H.E.¡± or ¡°His Excellency¡± and ¡°H.R.H¡± or ¡°Her Royal Highness¡± should not be used in United Nations documents. The title ¡°Dr.¡± may be used for doctors of medicine acting in a medical capacity.¡±
1 June 2021 Maps and figures, including photographs The guidance on photographs was updated to include: ¡°Photographs must have attribution (e.g. Source: Panel of Experts).¡±
1 June 2021 Style/Capitalization Under ¡°Some points of style¡±, the following change was made: ¡°The main component of an e-compound referring to an established electronic system or tool, such as eDoc or eMeets (and their successors, gDoc and gMeets); otherwise email, e-commerce and so on; also Email and E-commerce at the beginning of a sentence and in titles.¡±
1 June 2021 Footnotes The entry under Publisher's name has been updated to read: ¡°When the name includes an ampersand (&) as part of the actual name, it should be retained.¡±
25 March 2021 Maps and figures, including photographs The guidance on figures was updated to include: ¡°If there is only one figure in a document, it is not numbered and the word ¡°Figure¡± is omitted from the heading.¡±
23 March 2021 Style/Abbreviations The entry OECD was updated to reflect preferred spelling (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
11 March 2021 Style/Spelling The entry "clearing-house (adj.)" was added to the spelling list
3 March 2021 Style/Abbreviations The entry  "GPS (Global Positioning System)" was removed and "GNSS (global navigation satellite system)" was added 
24 February 2021 Style/Capitalization The following entries on geographical terms were updated:

east, eastern
in reference to a geographical direction or an area within a country or a body of water (e.g., the eastern Mediterranean)
but East, Eastern in reference to a major region or in a political context: East Africa, East-West dialogue, the East Atlantic

north, northern
in reference to a geographical direction or an area within a country or a body of water (e.g., the northern Atlantic)
but North, Northern in reference to a major region or in a political context: North America, North-South dialogue, the North Atlantic

south, southern
in reference to a geographical direction or an area within a country or a body of water
but South, Southern in reference to a major region or in a political context: South-Eastern Europe, North-South dialogue, the South Pacific, the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean)

west, western
in reference to a geographical direction or an area within a country or a body of water (e.g., the western Mediterranean)
but West, Western in reference to a major region or in a political context: West Africa, the Western Powers, the West Atlantic, the West Pacific

central in reference to an area within a country or a body of water (e.g., the central Mediterranean)
but Central in reference to a major region: Central Africa

24 February 2021 Style/Spelling The entry "rule-making" was added to the spelling list
29 January 2021 Addenda The text "Proposed programme budget for the biennium XXX" was updated to read "Proposed programme budget for [year]"
24 November 2020 Style/Spelling The entry "small-satellite (adj.)" was added to the spelling list
2 November 2020 Style/Spelling The entry "syllabuses" was added to the spelling list
29 October 2020 Style/Abbreviations WCO was added to the list of abbreviations
28 October 2020 Style/Capitalization The entry on "Member" was updated to read: a State not a member of the United Nations, a non-member State, a member of a United Nations organ, e.g., member or members of the Security Council, member or members of the Economic and Social Council, etc.
26 October 2020 Footnotes The practice of using sales numbers as references for United Nations publications has been discontinued. The guidance in the Editorial Manual has been updated accordingly.
19 October 2020 Style/Capitalization The guidance on transliteration of proper names in Arabic was updated as follows:
The definite article al is capitalized when it is the first element in a name and lower-case when it is in the middle; for example, Al-Jazeera, Al-Qaida, Mohammed al-Ansari. The same practice applies to el, where used.
13 October 2020 Style/Spelling The entry "comorbidity" was added to the spelling list
21 September 2020 Footnotes

The guidance on Repeated references was updated to read:
A reference is given the first time that a source or item is mentioned in the text. In resolutions, a reference is given once only, the first time that an item is mentioned, whether in the preamble or in the operative part. Once a reference has been given, it is repeated only when necessary for the sake of clarity or to change a specific element in the reference, such as a section or paragraph number.

A. Repeated footnote references
In a change from past practice, numbered footnote indicators are no longer repeated in resolutions. When a reference must be repeated, a new footnote with the identical text should be inserted.

Repeated footnote indicators may be used in explanatory footnotes.

21 September 2020 Footnotes

The last two sentences on the guidance on Excessive referencing were updated to read:
II. General instructions on footnotes and text notes

C. Excessive referencing

In resolutions, an item is referenced once only, the first time that it is mentioned, whether in the preamble or the operative part. When it is necessary to repeat a reference, a new footnote should be inserted.

17 September 2020 Style/Spelling The entry "penholder" was added to the spelling list (with * to indicate a change from previous practice)
11 August 2020 Style/Spelling ** added to work-hour to indicate an exception to the twelfth edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary
24 July 2020 Style/Abbreviations UNITAMS was added to the list of abbreviations
24 June 2020 Policy questions The entry on references to commercial firms in United Nations documentation was updated to reflect changes in practice
22 June 2020 Style/Capitalization The entry on "Organization" was updated to read: when used as a short title, whether for the United Nations or an entity whose name includes "Organization"
22 June 2020 Style/Spelling The entry "security sector (not hyphenated)" was added to the spelling list
22 June 2020 Style/Spelling The entry "re-enforce" was added to the spelling list
9 June 2020 Style/Capitalization "Prefecture" was added as an example under "Proper nouns and adjectives and recognized geographical names"
9 June 2020 Italics and bold print The following note was added to the guidance on italics
Note: An italicized title used within an italicized title or heading should remain italicized and be enclosed in quotation marks. Other italicized terms (e.g., non-English words, species names, ship names) used within an italicized title or heading should be set in roman.
13 May 2020 Style/Abbreviations TWh (terawatt-hour) was added to the list of abbreviations
17 April 2020 Footnotes

Change in guidance on text notes and footnotes:
II. General instructions on footnotes and text notes
Footnotes, text notes or references directly in the text. In masthead documents, sales publications and reports issued as supplements to the Official Records, references to masthead documents, including summary records or verbatim records, supplements, newspaper articles, public statements, interviews, personal communications and material on a website may be given in footnotes, text notes or directly in the text, as appropriate.

III.United Nations sources
B. Reports issued as supplements to the Official Records
Elements in the reference

In documents and publications, supplements may be cited by giving the document symbol in either a text note or a footnote after the descriptive title of the report.

17 April 2020 Style/Abbreviations DDT was added to the list of abbreviations
17 April 2020 Style/Spelling The entry "re-engage" was added
16 April 2020 Guidelines for gender-inclusive language Link to Guidelines for gender-inclusive language was added to the home page
16 April 2020 Style/Capitalization Examples added under Government (noun only): pro-government elements and anti-government forces
16 April 2020 Country names and currencies The second paragraph was updated to read:
The country name is normally given after the name of a city, unless the city is the capital or the host city of a United Nations headquarters (Geneva, New York and The Hague)
28 February 2020 Footnotes Example added to Footnotes, chapter 4, section F 
28 February 2020 Style/Punctuation

The entry on commas was updated as follows:
Commas in pairs

          When a non-restrictive relative clause comes in the middle of a sentence, it is marked off by a comma at each end. It is also important to use commas in pairs in other parenthetical constructions:

          Not "In article 4, paragraph 6 (a) of the Convention..."

          But "In article 4, paragraph 6 (a), of the Convention..." [Note too that, in English, brackets are used in pairs "(a)", even where a single closing bracket is used in another language "a)".]

          Not "The court, while preserving its independence should perform..."

          But " The court, while preserving its independence, should perform..."

          Not "... submit to the Committee for its information, a report on..."

          But "... submit to the Committee, for its information, a report on..."

          Not "At its 42nd meeting on 18 January 1996, the Committee had decided..."

          But "At its 42nd meeting, on 18 January 1996, the Committee had decided..."

28 February 2020 Style/Abbreviations The entries for Inter-American Development Bank and Islamic Development Bank were updated to reflect current usage
18 February 2020 Communications

The guidance on attachments was updated to read:
The order of attachments is as follows: annex, enclosure, attachment. The heading ¡°Enclosure¡± should be used for material that is separate from but attached to an annex; the heading ¡°Attachment¡± is used for material that is separate from but attached to an enclosure. The heading ¡°Appendix¡± should generally be avoided.

Roman numerals are used for multiple annexes, enclosures and attachments

5 February 2020 Country names and currencies The currency name should be written in full if it is used only once or twice in a document or if there is any possibility of ambiguity. If a currency that is not well known is used several times in a document, its name should appear in full at the first mention, followed by its symbol between parentheses
5 February 2020 Style/Abbreviations PKK was added to the list of abbreviations
30 January 2020 Style/Spelling The entry for "child-sensitive" was updated to reflect that the term should always be hyphenated, regardless of whether it precedes or follows a noun
30 January 2020 Style/Capitalization The entry "Charter" was added
17 January 2020 Style/Capitalization The third paragraph was updated to read:
Initial capitals are not used as a mark of respect; neither does the use of lower case imply a lack of respect. Certain words are capitalized when used in a specialized or restricted sense, the purpose of the capital being to point to the specialized or restricted sense (e.g. Aboriginal people in Australia, but the consequences of climate change on indigenous communities, black pupils are closing the gap in educational performance on their white classmates).
17 January 2020 Style/Abbreviations UNMHA was added to the list of abbreviations
3 January 2020 Style/Spelling

The following entries were added:

crowdwork, crowdworker, crowdworking

11 December 2019 Style/Spelling The entry ¡°life-saving¡± was added to the spelling list
5 December 2019 Style/Spelling

The following entries were added:

lump-sum (adj.)
lump sum (noun)

20 November 2019 Style/Capitalization The entry ¡°United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework¡± was added
18 November 2019 Style/Numbers, dates and time

Under the section ¡°Ordinals¡±, the entry on latitude was updated to read:

Latitude and longitude: 32nd parallel, N 36¡ã25'13, W 44¡ã23'01¡±

15 November 2019 Style/Spelling The entry "agroprocessing" was added to the spelling list
29 October 2019 Style/Spelling The entry "behove" was added to the spelling list
25 October 2019 Style/Capitalization The entry for "State" was updated to include "welfare state" as an exception
4 October 2019 Country names and currencies

The second paragraph was updated to read:

The country name is normally given after the name of a city, unless the city is the capital or the host city of a United Nations headquarters (e.g., Geneva and New York).

3 October 2019 Style/Spelling The entry "antisemitism" (an exception to the twelfth edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary) was added to the spelling list