===Editorial Preferences===
*<ul><li>Serial commas in all situations — alpha, beta, and gamma.</li>*<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 (or 18 Aug. 1957).</li>*<li>Months are to be spelled out in the body of the article, but abbreviated in notes.</li>*<li>Calendar designation shall be either "BC" or "AD" whenever there may be ambiguity — AD 1957 or 3400 BC, but 2 January 201 AD.</li>*<li>Acronyms composed of initials shall omit periods — thus USA, FAS, PhD.</li>*<li>Notes shall be numbered sequentially throughout each article.</li>*<li>Footnotes go should be used sparingly, as present software makes it difficult to place them at the bottom of columns, not grouped the default being to group them at the bottom of the page. [Note: This is not easily done with present software.]</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.</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>Endnotes are preferred to footnotes.</li>*<li>Do not use apostrophes in decades; thus 1920s not 1920's, and 80s not 80's.</li>*<li>Ordinal suffixes (st, nd, rd, th) should be superscript. Elevation 33% and size 67%.</li></ul>
===Things to Avoid===