Is a 99% upper confidence bound the upper limit of a 99% confidence interval?

I have to find a "99% confidence bound" for a standard deviation. This is not hard. The only question I have is whether this is finding the $\chi^2_{.99}$ value or just the upper bound for the 99% confidence interval (between $\chi^2_{.005}$ and $\chi^2_{.995}$). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advanced!

• $\chi^2_{0.99}$. Th wording asks for that, and not for a symmetric confidence interval. For the variance in particular, one is seldom interested in a confidence interval in the small tails on both sides sense. – André Nicolas Mar 30 '14 at 23:32

The upper confidence bound would be the $\chi^2_{0.99}$ value. As a Google seach will show, the term is in fairly common use, and has a standard meaning: "the" point $a$ such that $F_X(a)=0.99$, the point that has $1\%$ of the area in the right tail.
In particular, the $99\%$ upper confidence bound is not the upper limit of a $99\%$ confidence interval with $0.005$ in each tail.