Proofed | Editors | Emeritus | Cambridge Judge (CJ) Style Guide | DEI / CTO / CPO.SEPO / BTV / DEI.RED / ODDT / BA R2
Key Style Guide Information and Links
- This guide is for CJ e-learning documents (Floryboards and associated materials).
- For any style points not covered in this guide, refer to:
- Editors | Emeritus | Chicago Manual of Style (CMoS) Guidelines for Emeritus Content
- Spelling: Oxford Dictionaries
- Dialect: UK English
- For marketing documents, use:
- For video editing specifics, refer to:
School and Course Terminology
course, teacher and learners
Bold green indicates the preferences for this school/the specified courses.
- CJ-DEI / CJ-CPO.SEPO / CJ-BTV / CJ-DEI.RED / CJ-ODDT / CJ-BA R2
Course | Program | Programme | |
Module | Week | ||
Programme Leader | Learning Facilitator | Success Coach | [Other] |
- CJ-CTO
Course | Program | Programme | |
Module | Week | ||
Programme Leader | Learning Facilitator | Success Coach | [Other] |
Important School-/Course-Specific Notes
- Headings in green boxes need to include the type of page (this is for Emeritus designers' internal use).
- For example, in the following, the deletion of "Discussion page title" is incorrect:
- Please use the phrase Key term review cards, not Key terms review cards.
- Text <bookended by arrows> is internal Emeritus information. Please do not edit:
- All of the above activities should be completed by <DELIVERY TO ADD date in Date Month, Date format>, <Time> UTC.
- Exception to UK English spelling: please retain Help Center (not Help Centre) – this is used across various Emeritus materials for different schools, and they want to retain consistency.
- The term Programme Support should retain initial capitals in titles.
- Retain use of "I" in contexts like this (next to photo), as it's a direct message from the faculty to the learner:
- Please note that the introductory text will look a little different from normal Floryboard text (see below).
- However, please maintain the general pattern of the first sentence ["This module has......and....., plus xx activities/activity."]
- For CJ-BA R2:
- In the outline, count each poll activity as a separate poll.
- In the outline, do not include the subheaders in the Introduction section.
- In the outline, do not include the PL Live Sessions section.
Capitalization
- Use initial capital letters for:
- Positions/job titles, eg Senior Tutor, Admissions Tutor, Director of Studies
- Degree titles, eg BA Honours in History
- Single Honours, Joint Honours, etc.
- Qualifications, eg GCSEs in Mathematics, Chemistry and History.
- Use lowercase letters for phrases such as cleantech, medtech, fintech.
Headers/subheaders
- All headers and subheaders: sentence case
- Includes the main module heading in Floryboards
- Following colons
- Video/activity titles – use an initial capital (e.g. Module 2: Feedback survey; Video 7: Tech issues)
- Other contexts – use lowercase (e.g. Capitalizing headers: how should you do it?)
Punctuation
- Do not use the serial comma unless necessary to avoid ambiguity.
- Parenthetical dashes: use spaced em dashes.
- Use hyphens in words beginning with prefixes such as co, de, pre, or re when two of the same vowels appear together, but not when the letters are different:
- co-operate, re-emerge, de-escalate, pre-eminent
- proactive, reorder, codependent
- Do not use full stops in abbreviations: eg, am, pm, op, no, cf, ie, ed, etc
- Do not use full stops after:
- Mr, Mrs, Dr, etc
- Initials: Dr M P S Handley (note space between each initial)
- Do not use the '&' symbol.
- Use italics for non-English words.
- Use single quotation marks for unfamiliar words/phrases.
- Use round brackets for nested parentheses: (as Jones (YY) maintains).
Numbers
- Spell out numbers one to ten; use numerals for 11 and above.
- Spell out the words 'million' and 'billion'.
- Use alongside figures for currency: £1 million.
- Also use with figures when referring to a specific amount: exactly 2.68 billion vs. approximately two billion.
- Use the % symbol whenever referring to a figure; spell out 'percent' only when discussing the concept.
- Only hyphenate a fraction when used as an adjective:
- two thirds (noun)
- a two-thirds majority (adjective)
- Use minimum number of digits in page ranges: 34–5, 107–17, 46–54
- No space between number and measurement unit: 6cm, 12kg
- GBP equivalent should be given for non-GBP currency amounts.
- Please leave a comment if this has not been included.
Times and Dates
- Date format: Friday, 16 January 2004
- Standard time zone: GMT/BST
- Time format: 12-hour clock – 10am, 3.45pm
- Use numbers for centuries: 20th century (no superscript)
- Give full four digits for year range across different centuries: 1850–1925
- Only use two digits for second year if within the same century: 1920–65
Bullet Lists
- If you use a complete sentence to introduce a bulleted list, then end it with a full stop, not a colon.
- For full-sentence bullets, start each point with a capital letter and end with a full stop.
- For lists of points that are not full sentences:
- place a colon at end of the sentence introducing the list
- use lowercase to start each point
- use a full stop only after the last item of a bulleted list of incomplete sentences/phrases.
Citations/Referencing
Harvard referencing style. Please use this Proofed Guide to Harvard Referencing only to ensure consistency. However, please use single quotation marks and punctuation outside the quotation marks. Examples:
email/web addresses, filenames
- Lowercase
- Please include https:// at the start of web addresses
- Follow with full stop if appearing at the end of a sentence
- No underline
- For downloadable files:
- lowercase
- hyphen between each word (instead of spaces)
Subject-Specific Terminology/Spelling Preferences
- biomedical
- cleantech
- 'data' is a singular noun (not plural)
- decision-making
- fintech
- focused / focusing / focuses
- fundraising
- learnt
- log in (verb) (NOT log on)
- login (noun)
- medtech
- micro-level
- micro-scale
- multidisciplinary
- online
- postdoctoral
- spinouts
- startup
- under-representation
- website
- For CBS-ODDT: senseability and memorisability are terms developed by the faculty and should be retained.