photo captions

A photo credit should not end with a period. Employ parallelism when mentioning a number of people and their titles in a caption. Such terms as top, bottom, left, right, above, below, from left, or clockwise from left usually precede the phrase identifying the object or person.

Use commas, not colons. With a group of people, begin with from left. With two people, the person on the left is generally indicated: Bill Jones, left, and Bob Smith, unless clear: Bill Jones and Mary Smith. Use “a” NOT “the” when the same award (or title or other terms) is given to multiple people. (Jane Smith, MS, receives a Business Communicator Award.) Don’t use quotation marks when mentioning the name of the award. (John Smith, MD, received the 2010 Continuing Educator of the Year Award.)