SCA Style Guide: Word List

A

  • ad hoc (no hyphen, even as a modifier)

  • administration e.g., the Trump administration (CMOS 8.65)

  • aging (not ageing)

  • agroclimatic

  • agroforests

  • Agtron (number)

  • alkalinity

  • Americano among (not amongst)

  • Airbnb

  • Anacafé

  • appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC)

  • Authorized SCA Trainers (ASTs)

  • Avance (sustainability conference)

  • Arabica/Arabicas

B

  • Barista Guild

  • Barista Guild Espresso Survey

  • bilateral

  • bittersweet

  • Bloomberg

  • Bourbon (variety)

  • buildup (noun)

  • business’s (singular possessive)

C

  • C. arabica

  • C. canephora

  • C market (upper case C only, no hyphen not even for ‘C market prices’)

  • C price (upper case C only, no hyphen)

  • café

  • Café de Colombia

  • Camellia sinensis

  • Castillo

  • Catimor

  • Catuai

  • Caturra

  • Champagne (the drink)

  • cheesemaker

  • cheesemonger

  • Chief Research Officer 

  • Co-founder

  • Coffea arabica

  • Coffea canephora 

  • Coffea eugenioides

  • Coffee Brewing Control Chart

  • Coffee Lexicon (name of dictionary)

  • coffee makers

  • CoffeeMind

  • coffee price crisis

  • coffee producing (no hyphen, even if used as a modifier)

  • Coffee Science Manager

  • Coffee Skills Program

  • Coffee Systems Map

  • Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel

  • Coffee Technicians Guild (no apostrophe)

  • Coffee Value Assessment

  • commodity-grade coffee

  • conflict resistant crops

  • consorzio

  • cooperation

  • COVID-19

  • crema

D

  • Daily Coffee News

  • decision-makers

  • decision-making

  • demitasse

  • demucilagers

  • data (plural)

  • decor (no accent)

  • dialogue (not dialog)

  • drip brew coffee

E

  • e.g., (roman and followed by comma: CMOS 10.7 and 6.51)

  • electrical conductivity

  • ELMU

  • Ethiopian Fine Coffee

  • Stakeholder Committee, (but ‘stakeholder committee’)

F

  • Fairtrade International (organization), Fair Trade USA (organization), fair trade (philosophy)

  • Farmer Profitability and Prosperity working group

  • farmgate

  • (Fig. 1 and 3. See also fig. 5)

  • firsthand

  • first wave

  • flat-bottom baskets

  • Flavor Wheel

  • focused

  • forgo (not forego)

  • free fall

  • Free on Board (FOB)

G

  • gauge (not gage)

  • gas, not petrol

  • Geisha (italics), or the coffee producer’s preferred spelling

  • Global North

  • Global South

  • (the) government of ... (also US government, etc.)

  • gray

  • greenhouse

  • ground-truthing

H

  • Harrar

  • haut café

  • Hivos Coffee Barometer

I

  • ibrik coffee

  • Idaho potatoes

  • i.e., (roman and followed by comma: CMOS 10.7 and 6.51)

  • International Coffee Day

  • International Coffee Organization (ICO) (the International Coffee Organization/the ICO)

  • in-depth

  • initial public offering (IPO)

  • Institute (if used in full title: CMOS 8.68)

  • institute (if used alone: CMOS 8.68)

  • internet

J

  • Job titles: uppercase, Eg. Tara Smith, Director of Marketing

K

L

  • Lactobacillus helveticus

  • latte (no accent)

  • lungo

M

  • MA (master’s of arts) (no full points)

  • mashupmaster’s (degree)

  • microlot

  • microroast, microroasting, microroaster

  • mid-Mildsmin. (minutes)

  • mindset

  • multi-serve

  • multisite

N

  • NACS Show

  • Napa Valley wines

  • Nasdaq

  • National Coffee Association (NCA)

  • New York C price

  • NGO (an NGO)

  • Nonexistent

  • nonprofit

  • northeast

  • northwest

O

  • oak wood

  • open-minded

  • origin (term used to describe a coffee-producing country)

  • Origin Trip

  • Overpaying

P

  • Pacamara (italics)

  • Parma hamper pound green

  • petrol – use ‘gas’ instead

  • place names

  • portafilter

  • pour-overpractice (with a ‘c’ in all instances)

  • Price Crisis Response (PCR) Initiative

  • prosciutto di Parma

  • Pu-erh tea

  • public–private (en dash, not hyphen)

Q

  • Q Grader (from The Coffee Dictionary)

  • Q Processing course

  • qahwa (Arabic for ‘coffee’)

  • quaker (in reference to coffee beans)

R

  • real (Brazilian currency)

  • Roasters Guild (no apostrophe)

  • Re:co Specialty Coffee Symposium

  • RTD

  • ristretto

  • Robusta

  • rollout

  • roundup

S

  • SCA references: the SCA (include ‘the’)

  • SCA Handbook

  • SCA Roaster and Retailer Financial Benchmarking study

  • SCAA’s Water Quality Handbook

  • SCAEScotch (do not use in relation to people)

  • Scotch Lambsec. (seconds)

  • second waves

  • emi-conical baskets

  • semifinal

  • Sidamo single-serve

  • SL28

  • SLs (last ‘s’ not in italics)

  • smallholder(s)

  • smoky (no ‘e’ when used as an adjective)

  • southeast

  • southwest

  • specialty (with one ‘i’, except as part of a proper name, e.g., ‘traditional speciality guaranteed’ - EXCEPT FOR … Speciality Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE)

  • Stakeholder committee

  • standalone states (US states should not be abbreviated)

  • sustainability conference 

  • Systems Map

T

  • T-shirttaste testing/taste test

  • tea producing countries (no hyphen)

  • The Economistthe Financial Times

  • the New York Times

  • The Wall Street Journal

  • third wave movement

  • ton (not tonne)

  • total hardness

  • towards (with an s)

  • trade-off

  • traditional specialty guaranteed (TSG)

  • travels, traveling, traveled

  • tree cover (not hyphenated)

  • Typica

U

  • UNESCO World Heritage Sites US not USA (the US)

V

W

  • Washington DC (no full stops)

  • well-made (modifier)

  • while (not whilst)

  • World Barista Champion

  • World Brewers Cup (WBrC) (no apostrophe)

  • World of Coffee (event)

  • World Coffee Championships

  • World Coffee Research (WCR)

X

Y

  • Yemenia

  • Yirgacheffe (as used by the Ethiopian Coffee Exchange)

  • yogurt

Z