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Subject:Re: question: bulleted lists and periods From:Ann Mackenzie <TekDocWis -at- AOL -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:30:46 EDT
Sarah -
The standard is to *consistently* omit periods from sentence fragments in a
list. Periods in lists are used only after:
* complete sentences, or
* items that complete a sentence and that have commas following each item.
(Per Chicago Manual of Style)
