Contribute/Style Guide

Formatting Guide

This wiki follows formatting guidelines adapted from the Wikipedia Manual of Style.

The aim is to provide a guide that keeps contributions clear, consistent, and simple to build upon.

Text Formatting

• Use Lastname, Firstname for authors.
• Italicize titles of books, journals, or long works using two single quotes:

 Placing Outer Space → *Placing Outer Space*

• Use en dashes (–) for page ranges:

 Example: 101–115  

• Use square brackets for external links:

 [1]

Categories

• Add category tags at the bottom of the page to group references by theme.

Format: [[Category:ThemeName]]

• Use existing category names where possible. You may suggest new ones on the Talk page.

Page Titles

Use structured naming for reference pages so they can be searched and reused easily.

Format: Bibliography/References/Lastname_Year_Title

Example: Bibliography/References/Messeri_2016_PlacingOuterSpace

BibTeX (for unique reference entries only)

To support exporting citations, you can include a BibTeX block in a

 tag:

<pre>
@book{Messeri2016,
  author    = {Lisa Messeri},
  title     = {Placing Outer Space},
  year      = {2016},
  publisher = {Duke University Press}
}