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/* Editorial Preferences */ clarify
<li>Quantities of twenty or fewer are spelled out as words, larger amount as digits. Exceptions are for ages, and perhaps others.</li>
<li>Date format is day month year — 18 August 1957 (18 Aug. 1957in genealogies and tables).</li>
<li>Months are to be spelled out in the body of the article, but abbreviated in notes and in genealogical tables.</li>
<li>Acronyms composed of initials shall omit periods — thus USA, FAS, PhD.</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 a footnote on the first page of the article marked with an asterisk.</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 the Germond.</li> <li>Footnotes should be used sparingly, and should not be used for citations (endnotes being preferred). Author biographies or references to prior articles in a series should be footnoted on the opening page with 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>
