It's sometimes hard to decide how to treat cross-references and field names in running text, like instructions for using a program. Should they be in quotation marks, bolded, italicised, in a different colour or in another font? There is no hard and fast rule. It's...
“This is a sentence.” “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said. “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.” “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.” “This is a sentence followed by an...
Often the DOIs and URLs in a reference list create large, ugly gaps (especially if the list is justified) because they do not break nicely. The Online Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition - login required) recommends breaking long URLs: • ‘After a colon or a double...
Question: I'm editing a document with many headings and sub-headings, only some of which have been taken up in the automatically created Table of Contents. How do I apply or remove the formatting that determines whether or not a heading is included in the automatic...
(The instructions are intended as guidelines and apply to Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2403 Build 16.0.17425.20124 64-bit) for Windows 11. Details may differ slightly for other versions.) In my first blog post, I shared my 14-step formatting...
Formatting makes it much easier for me to work with the document, it looks professional, and it is much easier for the examiners to navigate (Richard Steele, 2023). In my last blog, I shared my 14-step formatting checklist and how to work through steps 1 to 6: Open...
Richard Steele said in his recent blog about his take on academic referencing: Formatting “makes it much easier for me to work with the document, it looks professional, and it is much easier for the examiners to navigate … this is a technical issue, not an academic...
