Editorial Stylesheet for MultiLingual magazine — Write it Right

Editorial Stylesheet

STYLESHEET

Abbreviations

Spell out US state names when not used as contact information. When abbreviating, use standard two-letter postal abbreviations for states and Canadian provinces.
US and UK are used for United States and United Kingdom in adjective form (US users, UK users).
GmbH and NW are used without periods.
Inc. and Ltd. are used with periods.
Most abbreviations are avoided (for example: Corporation, Suite, Street, Avenue).

Acronyms

Use full phrase or full name of product or company in initial use (follow with acronym in parentheses). Spell out in all uses where there is possibility of confusion.

Dashes

Put a space on either side of a long (em) dash.

Footnotes

We do not use footnotes or bibliographies on our pages. Quote or cite material in the body of the text using Associated Press style.

Italics

Titles of books, movies, games and magazines are italicized; titles of software are not.
Words in languages other than English (and using the Roman alphabet) are italicized in standard text.
Software commands, Java strings and Java classes are in italics.

Punctuation

To avoid confusion, we now use the Oxford comma.
Semicolons in a series or list: use semicolon before “and” or “or.”
Otherwise, ollow Associated Press style.

Percent

Use % symbol.

Parentheses

Avoid where possible. Use dash or create a separate sentence if you can.

Spacing of Paragraphs

Do not use tabs or extra spaces at the beginning of a new paragraph.

Spacing of Text

Use one space between sentences.

Spellings

Use US rather than British spellings (localization not localisation)

Typographic Conventions

Use Courier font if available to indicate software code, HTML or XML tags and so on.

Web Addresses

Omit the http:// except where the remaining URL would not begin with www.

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