<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" set in small caps 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. Multi-part articles should use continuing numbering when all parts are by the same author. Occasional exceptions apply, as with Germond.</li>
<li>Footnotes should be used sparingly, as present software makes it difficult to place and grouping them at the bottom of columns, the default being page. Author biographies or references to group them at the bottom of prior articles in a series should be footnoted on the opening page.</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 referenced by numerals within square brackets in text — [1], not superscript <sup>1</sup>.</li>