Style Guide

Welcome to the Voices In The Dust. Please use this style guide to make sure that your sources easy to access.

• Citations/links to outside websites should be archived using archive.org (also called the Wayback Machine). For a guide on how to do this, see: Hertz, J. Archiving Websites and Preventing Broken Links. October 17, 2025.
• For process uploading new documents and adding citations see: Hertz, J. Documents and Citations on Media Wiki. October 17, 2025.

Overall Notes:

• Citations go outside of punctuation
• Omit any information not available

Uploading Documents

In the upload box: Title. Date.

• Title is the title of the document, not the title of the file.

• Capitalization is Title Case
• Date is in the form month day, year, e.g., January 1, 2000.
• If there is no day and/or year, report as: January 2000. Or: 2000.
  • Separate each element with a period.

Linking Documents and References

• Name: Last name and first initial. (e.g. Doe, J.)
  • If more than one author: Last-name et al. (e.g. Doe, J. et al.)
• Title is title case (meaning: The First Letter Of Each Word Is Capitalized)
• Source, if journal or newspaper title, then italicize. Write the full journal title (no abbreviations).
• Pages, separate with n-dash
• Date is in the form month day, year. (e.g. May 23, 2024)
  • If there is no day and/or year, report as: May 2024. Or: 2024.
• Hyperlink the entire thing!

Examples with varying levels of information available:

• Name. Title. Source. Article number. Issue number. Pages. Date.
  • Doe, J. Example Paper Title. Fictional Journal. Article 3. Issue 9. Pages 40-55. January 1, 2000.

• Name. Title. Date.
  • Doe, J. Example Paper Title. January 1, 2000.

• Title. Date.
  • Example Paper Title. January 1, 2000.

Documents

• Hertz, J. Archiving Websites and Preventing Broken Links. October 17, 2025.
• Hertz, J. Documents and Citations on Media Wiki. October 17, 2025.