Style guide
The University of Sydney
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Hyphens

  • Restrict the use of hyphens as much as possible. Do not use hyphens in everyday words eg armchair, textbook, noticeboard, timetable.
  • The better established the formation, the less need there is for a hyphen to link its components.
  • Compound adjectives are typically hyphenated, eg four-part program, fee-paying student or full-fee-paying students, first-year student.
  • Health care/health-care and other profession-specific terms should follow the profession or industry standard where not specified in the Macquarie Dictionary.

Don't hyphenate the following:
Asia Pacific (unless used adjectively, for example, Asia-Pacific forum)
coordination, coordinator, cooperation
corequisite, prerequisite
Deputy Chancellor
postgraduate, undergraduate

Do hyphenate the following:
higher-degree students
no-one
Pro-Vice-Chancellor
Vice-Chancellor