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Editorial Style Sheet: General

This editorial style sheet provides guidelines for proofreading "A War of Words" by Gary Tippett including spelling standards, punctuation rules, and abbreviations. It lists terms that may appear in the text such as names of soldiers, places, and publications. Numbers, dates, measurements, and other styling elements are also defined. The document aims to establish consistency in editing the work.

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Editorial Style Sheet: General

This editorial style sheet provides guidelines for proofreading "A War of Words" by Gary Tippett including spelling standards, punctuation rules, and abbreviations. It lists terms that may appear in the text such as names of soldiers, places, and publications. Numbers, dates, measurements, and other styling elements are also defined. The document aims to establish consistency in editing the work.

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Editorial Style Sheet Date: 30/5/20

Proofreader: Angus Delaney


Title: ‘A War of Words’ by Gary Tippet, Royal Auto, Noble, Park Victoria,
Australia, 2017, 16-21.
General

Spelling: Australian, The Macquarie Dictionary 7th edn.

Numbers:

 Guideline: One to two in words, numerals should be used from 3+


 Ordinal: One to two in words (e.g. second) and numerals used from 3+ (e.g.
8th)
 Years: written as numerals (e.g. 1916)
 Non-decimal fractions written in words and hyphenated (two-and-a-half)
 Dates: Day as numeral then month as word then sometimes year as a word if
it has not already been established (e.g. 7 August 1915, 19 July)
 Thousands: Numbers 1000 to 9999 need to appear as numerals with no
commas or spaces after first numeral (e.g. 5533)
 Measurements:
Distance: use numerals with an unabbreviated measurement and space
separating numeral and measurement (40 yards)

 Quotation Marks: use double quotation marks for quotations form sources
(people), single quotation marks are used within double quotation marks to
highlight common phrases or colloquialisms. Pull quotes don’t use quotation
marks and use ‘capitals style.’

 Title: all ‘capitals style’

 Dashes: spaced en dash

 Job titles: use upper-case letters (e.g. Private A.W. Brain)

 Abbreviations:
Uppercase:

Acronyms: No spaces or full stops between letters (e.g. AIF, VCs).

Initials with names: uses full stops between names (e.g. A.W Brain)
however spaces aren’t used in the circumstance where one person has multiple
names or an alias (e.g. ‘HK’ are the initials for Herbert Furguson or Herbert
Kroeger).

A B C D
Adelaide Advertiser
Battalion (10th, 19th etc.) Carol, Trooper Hamlin
AIF
Bell, Private Nugget C Company
Anzacs blue-eyed colouring
Armentieres Brain, Private, A.W.
Australia bulldog-rushed (colloquial)
Australian Bullecourt
Australians
Australianism

E F G H
Egypt First World War Gallipoli HK (Herbert
entreating Flers German Keith/Hebert Kroger)
France Graham, Private T. J
Fritz
Furguson, Herbert-Keith

I J K L
James, trooper George Horace Light Horse
Love, Major Alan

M N O P
Maitland Daily Mercury navvies Orr, Lance-Corporal W.K. Passchendaele
(newspaper) No-Man’s Land Owen, Wilfred Pozieres
mates
Matthews, Signaller Harley
Mediterranean
Q R S T
Red Cross Smith, Private John Tame, Private Arthur
Rudd, Bill South Australia The Nek
rumination South Australian The Referee
Russel’s Top Sydney (newspaper)
Turks

U V W XYZ
VCs Warnecke, George Zelling, Herbert Kroeger
Villers-Bretonneux West Australian
Western Front
Women’s Weekly (magazine)

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