===Editorial Preferences===
*Serial commas in all situations — alpha, beta, and gamma.
*Quantities of twenty or fewer are spelled out as words, larger amount as digits. Exceptions are for ages, and perhaps others.
*Acronyms composed of initials shall omit periods — thus USA, FAS, PhD.
*Notes shall be numbered sequentially throughout each article.
*Footnotes go at the bottom of columns, not grouped at the bottom of the page.[Note: This is not possible with present software.]
*If footnotes are used with a Bibliography, the footnotes shall be in brief format, "Author, Year, p. 00" with full details in the Bibliography.
*Notes are referenced by numerals within square brackets in text — [1], not superscript <sup>1</sup>.
===Things to Avoid===
*Do not use double spaces; condense them all to single spaces.
*Do not use spaces for formatting. Use indent or tabs if required.
===English Admonitions===
*When inserting a parenthetical phrase, any following comma goes outside the parentheses.
*When a parenthetical phrase at the end of a sentence is itself a whole sentence, place the period for the main sentence at it's end (before the parentheses), and place the period for the parenthetical sentence within the parentheses.
;Book
: Firstname Lastname. ''Title of Book''. City: Publisher, 18 August 1957, p. 000.
: United States. ''Journal of the House of Representatives''. 00th 00<sup>th</sup> Congress, p. 000.
;Book, second citation
: Lastname. 1957. pp. 00-00.
If only one title by the author, the date may be omitted.
;Census
;Journal
: Firstname Lastname. "Title of Article" in ''Journal Title,'' (Volume:Number), Issue number,1957. City: Publisher, pp. 000-000.
;Letter