IU Editorial Style Guide, Letter S
Saint (St.)
Abbreviate with place names, such as St. Louis. For personal names, follow the individual’s preference (e.g., Camille Saint-Saëns, Jill St. John).
People who learned to type on a typewriter were taught to leave two spaces after the punctuation ending a sentence, after the period following each number in a numbered list, and so on. When keyboarding documents on a computer, though, leave only one space between sentences, after the period following a number, after a colon, and in all similar cases. The word processing program will automatically insert enough space to make the passage easy to read.
spring, spring semester, spring term
Lowercase references to seasons and academic periods.
Lowercase state.
summer, summer session, summer term
Lowercase references to seasons and academic periods.