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MANUAL OF STYLE: CAPITALIZATION
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upon the same term preceding and leading up to them (see 138):

"His reasons for refusal were three: (i) He did not have the time. (2) He did not have the means; or, at any rate, had no funds available at the moment. (3) He doubted the feasibility of the plan." But: "He objected that (i) he did not have the time; (2) he did not have the means; or, at any rate, had no funds available; (3) he doubted the feasibility of the plan."

37. As a rule, nouns followed by a numeral — particularly a capitalized Roman numeral — indicating their order in a sequence:

Room 16, Ps. 20, Grade IV, Act I, Vol. I, No. 2, Book II, Div. III, Part IV.

But do not capitalize such minor subdivisions of publications as —

sec. 4, scene i, art. iii, art. "Evidence," chap. 2 (ii), p. 7 (vii), vs. II, 1. 5, n. 6. (See 110.)

38. The first word of a cited speech (thought) in direct discourse, whether preceded by a colon or a comma (on this see 131):

"On leaving he remarked: 'Never shall I forget this day'"; "With the words, 'Never shall I forget this day,' he departed"; "I thought to myself: This day I shall never forget (without quotation marks).

39. In resolutions, the first words following "Whereas" and "Resolved":

Whereas, It has pleased God . . . . ; therefore be it Resolved, That ....