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''

This will display as: Placing Outer Space

• Use en dashes (–) for page ranges:

 Example: 101–115  

• Use square brackets for external links:

[https://example.com]

This will display as: [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.

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 <pre> tag:

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