Public Style Sheet
Follow Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th ed., or Merriam-Webster’s Online, for spelling.
Follow Chicago Manual of Style, especially for citation form.
Spell out centuries
twenty-first century
twenty-first-century democracy
Spell out numbers from one to nine, use numerals for 10 and up.
Inclusive numbers (including dates): use the entire number.
2009–2010
Space around em-dashes:
word#—#word
No hyphenated Americans (even when used as an adjective)
African Americans
Asian American activists
Titles of museum programs should be roman, exhibitions should be ital:
The Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street program’s exhibit Hometown Teams
Titles of art works, including projects, should be ital:
SUGAR
Distant Mirrors
Title of academic programs, should be roman with initial caps:
Museum Studies Program
Title of an organization’s project, should be roman with initial caps of title, but “project” should be lowercase:
Archaeology in Annapolis project
Name of conference is roman initial caps (not ital, not quotes):
Imagining America’s 2013 conference, A Call to Action
References to Figures:
In text references s/b in parens and abbreviated
(Fig. 1); (see Fig. 1)
In caption, s/b spelled out
Figure 1: Followed by descriptive phrase or sentence, ending with period.
If the figure name, title, caption are within the figure itself, tell the author to delete it because that information will be in the caption.
Credit appears on a separate line, ending with period.
[CAPTION] Figure 1: Descriptive phrase or sentence.
[CREDIT] Photo by So and So.
If Permission form gives caption and credit info, use that for copy (though we can format it in our style).
Numbered lists: “1.” [not “1)”]
If there is a bold subhead, ends with period not colon.
- Project-based learning.
Heads style:
Title of article: center bold, extra hard return before and after
A-head: flush left bold, with extra hard return before and after it
B-head: ?
Author’s names (byline): Flush left, lightface (not bold), extra hard return before and after
End Notes:
only substantive
arabic numbers (1, 2, 3,)
Works Cited list
Citation style: author-date:
spell out author first names;
when citing website, “Accessed” date should include day, month, year:
“Accessed November 30, 2013.”
Citation style: blog:
Author Last Name, First Name. date. “Title of Entry.” Blog Title. URL
There must be an in-text cite for every item in the list. If not, author must insert one, or delete the item from the list.
In-text citation: (Author last name date); (Name date, page ref)
i.e., (Pollan 2009); (Pollan 2009, 99–100)
Citation style for blog:
Author last name, First name. Date. “Title of Entry.” Blog Title. URL
alliance building
African Caribbean
affirmative action
Afro-Latin community
Anglo Canadian
art-making
audio clip
audio course
audio documentary
audio editing
audio interview
audio journalism
audio producer
audio production
audio recording
audio work
“backstage” “front stage” – quotations for 1st mention, then no quotes
boundary-crossing
bridge-crossing
choice-making
civil rights movement
co-articulate
coauthor
cocreate
codevelop
cocurator
codirector
community building
community-engaged (adj.)
coproducers
cross-cultural
cross-disciplinary
Deep South
design-build pedagogy (adj.)
experiential learning
Franco American
French Canadian
full-time
Fundamental Pedagogies
in-between (noun; adj.)
in between (adv.; prep.)
internet
knowledge-making
longtime
mask-making
meaning-making
metacommentary
mill town
millworker
multilingual
multipronged
multiracial
multiyear
nonacademic
nonprofit
note-taking
PhD
place-making [placemaking (for third issue)]
postmodernism
problem-solving (noun)
public-making
reconceive
service-learning
storyteller
storytelling (noun)
study abroad experience
study abroad program
talkbacks [theater term for the dialogue between audience and performers after a performance]
teaching librarian
tenure-track position
theater-maker
theater-making
third-space resident
transdisciplinary
United States (noun)
US (adj) [no periods]
work life
website; web
Order of materials within the main document:
Biographical statement
Abstract
[Introduction]
Main text
Endnotes
References