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== A Note About This Guide ==
 
This is a brief style guide for authors. For information about styles and conventions used in marking up articles for WordPress, see: [http://wiki.code4lib.org/Code4Lib_Journal_WordPress_Input_Guidelines Code4Lib Journal WordPress Input Guidelines].
== Start of Article ==
Article titles are in Title Case -- all major words capitalized. The title is followed by an abstract , which will be pulled from the excerpt section lower on the post page, and byline of the form "by Author" or "by Author 1, Author 2, and Author 3".
== Headings ==
Use H2 for main Major section headings, H3 for sub-sections, H4 if you need a lower level. H2 are in "Title Case" -- all words capitalized, short words (the, a, in, up, over, about) should not be. H3 and H4 Subheadings are in "Sentence case" -- only the first word is capitalized.
== Figures & Tables End of Document ==
Figures and tables are centered, placed inside a P or DIV with class of "caption". For example=== Recommended Reference Style Discussion:===
<pre>&lt;p class = "caption"&gt;&lt;img src = "[https://writing.wisc..."&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Caption for Figure&lt;edu/strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;Handbook/DocCSE_NameYear.html Council of Science Editors (CSE) citation format] has been voted in as the official recommended style (see: [[Citation_discussion]])
=== Endnote &lt;div class Endnote References === "caption"&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;...&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</pre>
Captions for figures appear beneath A Bibliography and Notes section (if needed) immediately follows the figurelast of the article's narrative text. References are indicated by author and year (Smith, centered, with "Figure X:" 2007). Notes are indicated in bold, the descriptive text by note number in sentence case, plain textsquare brackets [1]. More details can be found in the [[Code4Lib_Journal_WordPress_Input_Guidelines#Endnotes_style_and_HTML_coding|Input Guidelines for Endnotes]].
Captions for tables and code appear above CSE reference style is the table, centered, with "Table X:" in bold, the descriptive text in sentence case, plain text. == Code == Code samples entered as preformatted text, as in the following example, are automagically color highlighted in Wordpress by the [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/syntaxhighlighter/ SyntaxHighlighter] plugin: <pre>&lt;pre&gt;[sourcecode language=Journal'php']RAW HTML/PHP/XML/Etcs recommended style for bibliographies. code goes here; change language (in above line) as needed[/sourcecode]&lt;/pre&gt;</pre> Supported formats include <tt>cpp, c, c++, c#, c-sharp, csharp, css, delphi, java, js, jscript, javascript, pascal, php, py, python, rb, ruby, rails, ror, sql, vb, vb.net, xml, html, xhtml An author may choose to use a different bibliographic reference style, but should follow that style accurately and xslt</tt>. Pretty much everything except <tt>perl</tt>consistently== End of Document ==
=== Footnotes & Footnote References ===Authors can refer to this guide for using the [[CSE Reference Style]]
A Notes section (if needed) immediately follows the last of the article's narrative text. Notes are indicated in the text either by note number in square brackets [1] or by author and year [Smith, 2007]. Where notes refer to articles, books, etc., that are not available by direct link, insert a [[COinS (layman's description) | COINS]] element after the note.
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