Help:Style Guide

Accepted Guides

• The Chicago Manual of Style (17th Edition) is our main style guide.
• Merriam Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary is our source for spelling.
• Rules may be borrowed from the AV Style Guide and documented herein.

If a rule conflicts with what is generated by standard wiki markup, and if overcoming that standard markup would result in extra work, consider using the wiki convention and documenting that here.

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).”