Titles formal tables

Give every formal table a brief, informative title that describes its contents in nonsentence format. The title should be complete enough to be understood without referring to the text. Place details in table footnotes, not in the title. 

There are two kinds of tables informal (or in-text) and formal. An informal table consists of three to five lines and is no more than four columns wide it cannot exceed the width of a text column. Informal tables may be placed in text following an introductory sentence, and each column should have a heading. They are not given titles or numbers, nor do they contain footnotes. 

As noted earlier, an accident investigation is not complete until a report is prepared and submitted to the proper authorities. Special report forms are available in many cases. Other instances may require a more extended report. Such reports are often very elaborate and may include a cover page, a title page, an abstract, a table of contents, a commentary or narrative portion, a discussion of probable causes, and a section on conclusions and recommendations. The following outline has been found especially useful in developing the information to be included in the formal report ... 

A There were no formal policies and procedures identifying a department, job title, or time table for regular inspection. 

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