《Translation_Style_Guide_English World Bank》.pdf

THE WORLD BANK TRANSLATION STYLE GUIDE ENGLISH EDITION © 2004 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank Translation Services 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20433 Version 1.0, printed June 2004 Printed in the United States of America Readers are welcome to reproduce portions of this work. Please credit The World Bank, Translation Services. Suggestions for additions or improvements to this guide are welcome (translation-vm@). ENGLISH World Bank Translation Style Guide FRENCH Version 1.0 ARABIC SPANISH Table of Contents RUSSIAN Preface 1 General Guidelines 3 Introduction 3 Spelling Rules 4 Sample/Standard World Bank Text 4 Capitalization 7 General Guidelines 7 Geographic Names 7 Institutional Names 8 Project Names 9 Punctuation, Typing, Headings, Titles 11 Punctuation and Typing 11 Headings, Titles 13 Acronyms, Abbreviations, Compounds 15 Acronyms and Abbreviations 15 Compound Words 17 Numbers, Measurements 19 General Guidelines 19 Dates 19 Time 19 Ranges of Numbers, Dates, Pages 20 Ordinal Numbers 20 Commas, Decimals 20