Style Guide for Voices In The Dust
Welcome to the Voices In The Dust! As you are creating and editing your first page, 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.