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Quotes
No Block quotes. All direct quotes “in ‘66’ and ‘99’ double quotation marks”. Single Quotation marks for Quotes inside Quotes
Single Quotation Marks for distancing or emphasizing a word (instead of italics). E.g. that is an ‘impressive’ detail.
Citation
Chicago name-date inline (Author Full Name Year, Page).
full bibliography at the end of the text (and not in Footnotes), https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html
We suggest using Zotero as citation manager, https://www.zotero.org/download/.
Italics
For artistic work titles, book titles, record titles, exhibition titles etc. use italization. E.g. “They attended the Signal Server exhibition”.
Company names are personal names and don’t get italicized.
Please use italics for emphasizing very sparsely.
Capitalization
Capitalize proper nouns, e.g. businesses, or cities, or personal names such as Mastodon, Berlin, Chuck Norris.
Acronyms
To introduce an acronym spell it out, followed by the acronym in brackets: Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Acronyms need only to be used, if they appear in the followup more than 3 times, otherwise just use the full term.
Footnotes
Please use sparsely. Do not use for citation or references, just for comments that didn’t make it into the main text.
Figures / Images
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