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Style Guidelines

General Guidelines

  • Follow English conventions unless told otherwise
  • Leave names of existing places/companies/objects as is
    • ex. AT&T
  • Use the spellings/names of objects common in the US as opposed to those common internationally
    • ex. Labor vs Labour
  • Do not put a period after units unless other conventions dictate it
    • in, not in. or inches
    • 3 ft, not 3'
    • 30 mi/hr, not mph
    • 4 hrs, not 4 hr
  • Nosecone is one word; not "nose cone"
  • Do not abbreviate words with symbols
    • ex. &, @
  • Capitalize proper nouns, but not regular ones.
    • ex. Nomex and Lexan, polycarbonate, payload, ejection subsystem
  • Replace words like 'Payload, Ejection, Movement' with phrases like 'payload system, ejection subsystem, movement subsystem' respectively.
  • Convention is to not hyphenate between latin prefixes.
    • ex. subteam is correct vs sub-team
    • ex. subsystem is correct vs sub-system
  • A sentence that uses a listing system within it should:
    • have a colon before the listing begins;
    • have semicolons between parts, and;
    • use the ", and;" transition before the last item.
  • Use --- in LaTeX to get the long m-dash used to separate parts of sentences.
    -More from brunston