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Latest revision as of 20:49, 13 May 2011
These are the style rules for history articles.
Article Title
The title of an article should be without punctuation.
- Good: [[Great Siege of Scarborough Castle]]
- Poor: Scarborough Castle, Siege of
The only exception to no punctuation should be in the case of disambiguation.
- Good: [[USS Enterprise (CV-6)]]
- Poor: [[USS Enterprise]]
For special punctuation requirements, you can format such things as ship name as [[USS Enterprise (CV-6)|''USS Enterprise'' (CV-6)]]
Citation Style
Chicago Manual of Style is appropriate for all history articles.
Reference
The first reference to any source should include at least five of the following: author, title, place of publication, publisher, date, and url.
Subsequent references could be formatted as <ref>Morison, p. 35</ref>
Please do not use the {{citation}} or {{reflist}} commands to create references as the {{reflist}} function produces citations in an inappropriate and incorrect style for the history discipline.