<li>Date format is day month year — 18 August 1957 (18 Aug. 1957).</li>
<li>Months are to be spelled out in the body of the article, but abbreviated in notesand in genealogical tables.</li>
<li>Centuries are to be styled "20th century.</li> <li>Calendar designation shall be either "BC" or "AD" set in small caps whenever there may be ambiguity — AD 1957 or 3400 BC, but 2 January 201 AD. Articles set entirely in one era may omit these.</li>
<li>Acronyms composed of initials shall omit periods — thus USA, FAS, PhD.</li>
<li>Notes shall be numbered sequentially throughout each article. Multi-part articles should use continuing numbering when all parts Endnotes are by the same author. Occasional exceptions apply, as with Germondpreferred to footnotes.</li>
<li>Notes shall be numbered sequentially throughout each article. Multi-part articles should use continuing numbering when all parts are by the same author. Occasional exceptions apply, as with exceedingly long articles like Germond.</li> <li>Footnotes should be used sparingly, and grouping them at the bottom of the pageshould not be used for citations (endnotes being preferred). Author biographies or references to prior articles in a series should be footnoted on the opening pagewith an asterisk [*].</li>
<li>If footnotes are used with a Bibliography, the footnotes shall be in brief format, "Author, Year, p. 00" with full details in the Bibliography. Note that this approach works poorly with web sources, and is discouraged when these are used.</li>
<li>Notes are listed by numerals followed by a closing square bracket — 1], not [1].</li>
<li>Endnotes are preferred to footnotes.</li> <li>Do not use apostrophes in decadesand centuries; thus 1920s not 1920's, and 80s 1800s not 801800's.</li>
<li>Ordinal suffixes (st, nd, rd, th) should be superscript. Elevation 33% and size 67%.</li>