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