<li>Calendar designation shall be either “BC” or “AD” 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>Figures, Tables, Charts, and Videos are each numbered separately (the latter only in online publications). Figures include all photographs and illustrations. Tables are defined as being columnar arranged text. Charts may combine text with graphics, such as lines indicating descent. The full words are used, not abbreviations. These terms should be followed by a number and period. Thus: "Figure 1. : Portrait of the Author." All must be called out in the text, unless circumstances dictate otherwise.</li>
<li>Credit for Figures, Tables, Charts, and Videos (where not covered by a broader Identification) are placed at the end of the caption in parentheses.</li>
<li>Captions are set in regular italic type, centered.</li>
<li>Serial commas in all situations—alpha, beta, and gamma.</li>
<li>Centuries are to be styled “twentieth century”.</li>
<li>Acronyms composed of initials shall omit periods—thus USA, FAS, PhD.(Exception: The P.E.D.I.G.R.E.E. program shall not omit periods or add spaces.)</li>
<li>Endnotes are preferred to footnotes. The exception is mention of prior publication, non-Society copyright, mention of prior articles in a series, and brief author bios which go in footnotes on the first page of the article marked with an asterisk and such.</li>
<li>Ordinal suffixes (st, nd, rd, th) should be superscript. Elevation 33% and size 67%.</li>
<li>Dashes indicating a range should be n-dashes, not hyphens.</li>
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*Do not use spaces for formatting. Use indent or tabs if required.
*Do not surround m-dashes with spaces, thus [—], not [ — ].
*Do not put blank lines between paragraphs. Use spacing above paragrahswhen needed.
*Do not link frames or illustrations to pages; link them to paragraphs. (Except when the system is being uncooperative.)