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Style Guide - Ancient History Encyclopedia Follow Us: Membership EncyclopediaAlphabetizeTimeline Explore Videos Images AudioWaresTools Ancient Atlas Weights & Measures Random Page Latin Dictionary Newsletter Contribute Submissions Needed Content Style Guide Terms & Conditions Join the Team Shop Men's Clothing Women's Clothing Magazines Prints BooksWell-nighAbout Our Team Annual Reports Contact Privacy Advertise Support Us Membership How to Help Donate Corporate Sponsorship Login Login Register Style Guide Target Audience Write as if you are telling a story to a friend. Joshua Mark Many upper school teachers use AHE for their courses.Unchanginglywrite with a upper school student in mind, as we want them to be worldly-wise to understand and grasp our content. This should not lead to simplification, though: we still want university students and academics to find our content useful, at least for a unstipulated overview of the subject. Writing Style & Tone “Story” is the key part in the word “history”, and our content should reflect that. Make your text interesting, heady and a pleasure to read. You can be funny too! Avoid jargon and try not to sound overly academic; we are not lecturing. Focus on stuff well-spoken and hands understood. Avoid long sentences. Be factual; don’t speculate. Be as neutral as possible, including using gender-neutral language,  and treat every culture or weighing system equally. Grab the reader’s sustentation from the beginning: your first paragraph should requite the reader the most important information while encouraging him/her to read further. Tell the reader why he or she should superintendency well-nigh your topic. Be straightforward. When appropriate, include a wrap-up at the end that discusses:  legacy; influences on later events, people, or ties to the modern world (what the site is like today or a popular movie in which the person is portrayed, for example). Written Content Types & Specifications Definitions: Definitions are an introduction to a topic. In your first paragraph, be sure to specify what your topic is and include dates when workable (birth and death of a person, whence and end of a war, reign of a king, etc.). The title should be short and to the point and using the most worldwide English spelling: “Constantine the Great” or “Hoplite” or “Ziggurat”. Definitions should be at least four paragraphs in length. Try not to exceed 1,500 words unless veritably necessary. Articles:Waresusually provide a increasingly detailed discussion of a topic and are often increasingly academic. For example, while the definition “Ziggurat” provides the nuts well-nigh ziggurats, an vendible could be “The Role of the Ziggurat in Mesopotamian Cities” or “An Analysis of Mesopotamian Ziggurats and Egyptian Pyramids”. When you submit a definition or an article, we recommend that you moreover submit images to be used with them. If you want to use images in the text, submit the images first. Refer to the “Images” section unelevated for guidelines. Language All content must be in English; non-English quotations must be translated. Check your spelling and grammar! We recommend Grammarly, which is self-ruling to use and it works directly on the AHE website. Use either British or American English (whichever you’re most well-appointed with), but be consistent. Avoid contractions, e.g., “don’t” should be written “do not”. Non-English terms must be italicised. When referring to places or people, unchangingly use their most wontedly known English name: ​Examples: “Babylon”, not “Babili” “Mark Antony”, not “Marcus Antonius” “Hammurabi”, not “'Ammurapi” If possible, state the original names of places, as Wikipedia often does, such as: Hammurabi (Akkadian from Amorite 'Ammurapi, "the kinsman is a healer", from 'Ammu, "paternal kinsman", and Rapi, "healer"). When in doubt, use the Latin or Greek name. Bibliography / Sources We expect all textual contributions to have a bibliography with a list of sources used. At least half of your sources should be from books or journals, as sadly online sources still don't requite our readers the same level of trust as print material does (even though there are some unconfined online sources). Please use the bibliography/references section to create your bibliography, and don't list it inside your article. Use the typesetting search in the bibliography tool, as this will create links to where readers can find the books. Numbers, Dates & Measurements Numbers up to twelve should often be written as words; numbers from 13 upwards should be written with digits. Use BCE / CE for dates instead of BC / AD. Centuries are written as numbers, for example "8th century BCE", not as words. Every single stage in a text must have a BCE or CE pursuit it, separated by a space, for example: “323 BCE”.Injudiciousdates are given with circa or c. in front of them. If a stage range is approximate, add the c. in front of each date, separated by a space: c. 1000 BCE - c. 800 BCE. All numbers must use (,) as thousand-separator and (.) as decimal separator, e.g. “1,324,000.07”. All measurements must be in metric units or have their injudicious metric equivalent written next to them, in brackets. Example: 10 miles (16 km). Units of measurement are written overdue each number, separated by a space. Correct is “16 km” not “16km”. Timeline Events When subtracting timeline events, do not use pronouns -- unchangingly use the names of the people or locations. In a timeline search the reader might see the entry out of context, and “He conquers Persia” has no meaning within a random timeline. Instead, write “Alexander theUnconfinedconquers Persia”. Use well-constructed sentences and write in the present tense. Timeline events should never be longer than two short sentences. Images Images should unchangingly have a unravelment that includes the name of what is depicted, why it is significant, from when it dates, and if it’s not in its original location, include where it is now (e.g. which Museum) if possible. Only add images that are your own or that have a copyright that allows you to use them (i.e. public domain or creative commons).TypesettingReviews Reviews should imbricate books which are currently misogynist to buy on either Amazon orTypesettingDepository. The recommended word length for a review is under 600 words and it should write most, if not all of the pursuit points (the preview snippet should include points 1,2 & 5): Who is this typesetting aimed at (scholars, students, unstipulated enthusiasts, young readers etc.) and does it succeed or not in that aim? What is the purpose of the book? (provide an overview, examine one specific speciality of a culture, provide new research etc.). Who is the tragedian and what is their background? An overview of content (chapters, sections etc.) and review of its tideway (archaeology, art, warfare, social history etc.). Why the reviewer recommends or not this book? (style, entertaining, accuracy, unique insights, omissions etc.). How does this typesetting compare with others on the same subject? A unravelment of particular edition features (images, maps, footnotes, index, remoter reading, bibliography etc.). Tags When in doubt, ask the editor.Unchanginglyadd tags, but no increasingly than three, when submitting articles, images, typesetting reviews, or timeline events. Replace any spaces in a tag with an underscore, such as “Alexander_the_Great”. When subtracting tags, unchangingly ask yourself: “What subjects does this help illustrate?” When subtracting a map, add tags of the major locations shown and the time period. When subtracting timeline events, add tags for the personalities, states, and events involved. When subtracting images, add tags for which you believe this image is a useful illustration. Don’t overdo it, though: A map of Greece would certainly get the tag “Greece”, but a Greek vase should not be tagged with “Greece”, as that tag is too unspecific. Instead, it might be tagged with “Greek_Art”. If you are not sure, make a guess. Our editors review all tags, so we may transpiration what you have added. Formatting Headings In headlines and subheadings all names and nouns should have their first letter capitalized. Use “Heading 3” for subheadings: Quotations Quotations are unchangingly enclosed by normal double quotes (“); replace any special quotes that might have been inserted by Word, such as (“) or (”). The person that is stuff quoted (and the source of the quotation) must be indicated, either in the sentence before, or in brackets without the quote. Examples: In Genesis 1:3 God says: “Let there be light.” “Let there be light.” (God, Genesis 1:3) Punctuation marks of a quoted sentence are within the quotation marks, not after. Quotations of increasingly than three lines of length should be quoted using the quote function of the online text editor, without any quotation marks: The name of the person quoted should be included within the quotation block, in brackets. Capitalization Capitalize titles, “Emperor”, “Queen” and the like, when they are used to as part of the name:  Emperor Augustus, Queen Zenobia. Don’t capitalize these words when used on their own: Augustus was the Roman emperor; The queen issued an edict. Capitalize words like “empire” when they are used as part of the name: the Roman Empire. But do not capitalize them when used on their own: The empire grew as increasingly territory was conquered. A worldwide source of confusion: “Queen Zenobia ruled the Palmyrene Empire” but “The Mesopotamian king Gilgamesh was moreover said to have been veiled underneath a river.” Semicolons Semicolons have two uses only: They are used to separate two self-sustaining clauses that are unfluctuating by ideas. So you could write: I walked to the Roman Forum today, and it was much worthier than I expected it to be. I walked to the Roman Forum today; it was much worthier than I expected it to be. I walked to the Roman Forum today. It was much worthier than I expected it to be. But not: I walked to the Roman Forum today; and it was much worthier than I expected it to be. Don’t use contractions with semicolon. Semicolons can be used to separate items in a complicated list. For example,  The House of the Faun at Pompeii was chock full of fascinating mosaics: the Alexander Mosaic, now in the Naples Archaeological Museum; a depiction of masks, moreover now in Naples; and some still in situ, including the word “Have”, meaning “Hale” on the floor as you enter. References Use Chicago style for references and citations. You only need to add in-text citations for uncontrived quotations.Unchanginglyadd your bibliography using the references section of an article, definition, or image; do not include the bibliography in your text. Other Emphasise words by italicising them.Typesettingtitles should unchangingly be italicised, both in the bibliography and in the text. Avoid underlines in your texts as they suggest a web link. You should aim to include at least one image in your articles. For definitions, select a featured image, and you may moreover add spare images using the search For towardly use of comma, please refer to the UNC Writing Center. 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