Quick Reference
24-Hour Voice Response Service - Formerly ASK LGCU
AFC - Accredited Financial Counselor
Adobe Acrobat - Capitalize
Adobe Reader - Capitalize
Aim - Capitalize; italicize
ATM - not ATM machine
BillPay - One word; capital P
CHC - Certified Housing Counselor
CFP® - Certified Financial Planner™
CPA - Certified Public Accountant
CashPoints - One word; capital P
Call Center - Not "Phone Center"
check card - Two words; Visa Check Card uses title case
Chrome Carbook - Two words; Carbook is one word
Credit Union - Capitalize when referring to LGFCU
Compass - Capitalize; LGFCU's resource kiosk
CUSO - Credit union service organization, uppercase acronym
cyberspace - One word; lowercase
database - One word
domain name - Two words; lowercase
dpi - Dots per inch; lowercase acronym
download - One word
e-mail - Lowercase, with hyphen; also, e-book, e-business, e-commerce, e-shopping
end user, end-user - Two words as noun, hyphenate as adjective
Fat Cat - Two words, both capitals; LGFCU's children's account
FAQ - Frequently asked questions; uppercase acronym
GIF - Graphics interchange format; uppercase acronym, lowercase spelled out
gigabyte - Abbreviate GB
Golden Circle - Two words, both capitals; LGFCU's mature members account
home page - Two words, lowercase
HTML - Hypertext markup language; uppercase acronym, lowercase in URLs; generally spell out in sentence
Internet - Always capitalize
intranet - One word; lowercase
IP address - Internet protocol address; uppercase acronym
IT - Information technology; uppercase acronym; spell out in sentence
JPEG, JPG - Joint photographics expert group; uppercase acronym, lowercase spelled out
kilobyte - Abbreviate KB; no space used with number, as 400KB; also, Kb for kilobit, or Kbps for kilobits per second
LifeSpans - One word; capital S
Local Government Federal Credit Union - Official trade name and brand name of the Credit Union
LGFCU - Official acronym of Local Government Federal Credit Union; not LGCU
login, logon, logoff - Lowercase; no hyphen
MBA - Masters of Business Administration
megabyte - Abbreviate MB
megahertz - Abbreviate MHz
MemberCard - One word; capital C; all LGFCU cards except the Visa Credit Card are MemberCards
MemberConnect - One word; capital C; boldface the word Connect
online - No hyphen
OWL - Online Web library; LGFCU's search engine
Plan - Capitalize, in body text include the tagline, Plan—Prepare, Learn, Act…Now, on first reference
Penny Hollow - Capitalize; name of children's Web site
PDF - Portable document format; uppercase acronym; also Adobe Acrobat PDF
plug-in - Hyphenate
SECU - State Employees' Credit Union, uppercase acronym
sign-up - Hyphenate as noun or adjective; two words as verb
TurboTax Online - TurboTax is one word; capital T
URL - Universal Resource Locator; uppercase acronym; title case spelled out
Visa - Not VISA
Web site - Two words; capital W; also Web page, Web browser, the Web
webmaster - One word; lowercase; also, webcast
workstation - One word
World Wide Web or Web - Capitalize
Zard - Capitalize; LGFCU's teen account