Help:Style Guide

Style Guide

Accepted Guides

• The Chicago Manual of Style (17th Edition) is our main style guide.
• Merriam Webster’s Unabriged Dictionary is our source for spelling.
• AV Style Guide may be used for ????

There’s a possibility that a rule may conflict with what’s generated by standard wiki markup. If overridig that standard markup would result in extra work, it’s probably best to do it the wiki way.

Exceptions

• Numbers
  • Use CMOS Alternate Rule:
    • ”Many publications, including those in scientific or journalistic contexts, follow the simple rule of spelling out only single-digit numbers and using numerals for all others (but see 9.7). Most of the exceptions to the general rule (9.2) also apply to this alternative rule. Round multiples of hundreds, thousands, and hundred thousands, however, are typically expressed as numerals when the alternative rule is in force (cf. 9.4).”