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<li>Serial commas in all situations — alphaQuantities of fewer than 100 are spelled out as words, betalarger amount as digits. Compound numbers are hyphenated, and gammaas "twenty-one." There are exceptions, such as ages.</li>
<li>Quantities of twenty Calendar designation shall be either “BC” or fewer “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 spelled out each numbered separately (the latter only in online publications). Figures include all photographs and illustrations. Tables are defined as wordsbeing columnar arranged text. Charts may combine text with graphics, larger amount such as digitslines indicating descent. Exceptions 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 agesFigures, 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 italic type, centered.</li> <li>Serial commas in all situations—alpha, datesbeta, and perhaps othersgamma.</li>
<li>Date format is day month year — 18 August 1957 (18 Aug 1957 in 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>Centuries are to be styled “twentieth century”.</li>
<li>Calendar designation Acronyms composed of initials shall be either “BC” or “AD” whenever there may be ambiguity omit periods— AD 1957 or 3400 BCthus USA, but 2 January 201 ADFAS, PhD. Articles set entirely in one era may (Exception: The P.E.D.I.G.R.E.E. program shall not omit theseperiods or add spaces.)</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 footnotes on the first page of the article marked with an asteriskand such.</li>
<li>Notes shall be numbered sequentially throughout each article. Multi-part articles should use continuous numbering when all parts are by the same author. Occasional exceptions apply, as with exceedingly long articles like the Germond series.</li>
<li>If footnotes are used with a Bibliography, the footnotes shall be in brief format, “Author, Short title, vol:page” 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 referenced by numerals within square brackets in text — [1], not superscript <sup>1</sup>.</li>
<li>Notes are listed by numerals followed by a closing square bracket — 1], not [1].</li>
<li>Do not use apostrophes in decades and centuries; thus 1920s not 1920's, and 1800s not 1800's.</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 place spaces at the start or end of paragrahs.
*Do not use spaces for formatting. Use indent or tabs if required.
*Do not surround mdashes 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.)