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Mike Reid — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:19:56 GMT

Current revision posted to How-To Wiki by Mike Reid on 10/27/2009 6:19:56 AM

99 Tips for Editing Mises Dailies--------

Filed under: Editing, Dailies

A Note on Authors

1. Every author has a different personality, set of needs, and relationship with Mises Daily.

2. Many of our authors are accustomed to writing for more scholarly publications. Try to give them a more journalistic tone.

3. Our authors may be loosely categorized into three ranks of prestige: heroes (e.g., Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises himself), seniors (e.g., Walter Block and Stephan Kinsella), and juniors (e.g., Bill Barnes and Edward Gonzalez).

4. The words of heroes are sacred. Keep a touch so light that no one will notice you changed anything. Just fix typos, and make them conform to Mises Daily style.

5. The words of seniors are to be handled deferentially. Improve their tone, but don't cavalierly make large deletions or alterations.

6. We have more discretion with our junior writers. Make their articles good to read.

7. When you want to contact an author, ask BK to put you in touch. Give BK a CC of all emails.

8. If an author insists on something, unless it contravenes Mises style (detailed below and in the newsletters), they shall have it.

Preparing the Draft for Editing

9. Check the schedule to make sure that it is the article you need to do next.

10. If it's a Classic, double-check that we haven't published it before.

11. Remove any ads or existing pull quotes unless they need to be edited.

12. If there is a bio, check it against the bio on that author's previous articles. If the bio is new, send it to BK. Either way, delete it from the article - BK puts the bios in.

Titles and Headings

13. BK deletes and reinserts titles, and uses Word Styles to find and format subheadings. It is convenient for him if you leave the title in, though.

14. If the article is a review, place the publication information for the book reviewed underneath the title of the review, in square brackets. BK will know how to format it then.

15. JT commonly changes article titles just before publication.

16. Format subheadings to Heading 2 Style. Sub-subheadings would be at Heading 3 Style.

17. Ensure that all headings are properly capitalized (Chicago 8.167).

18. Remove all footnotes from the title and subheadings. Footnotes in subheadings should be relocated to an appropriate place in the text (Chicago 1.77). The content of a footnote on the title should be cut and pasted to the bottom of the text above the Notes, and commented for BK with the word note.

Formatting

19. Format the document to have single spacing between lines, and a 12 pt space after each paragraph.

20. Delete extra carriage returns between paragraphs.

21. Indent block quotes to .5 inches. Some documents will set them to .49, so check the number.

22. Ensure that emphasis added at the end of a block quote has no caps or punctuation.

23. Each letter or number in an inline list must have both (1) a left parens and (2) a right parens.

24. Outside of headings and subheadings, the word chapter is lower case, and chapter numbers are given in arabic numerals (Chicago 8.190).

25. Remove superscript and subscript. Rewrite eight m² to eight square meters. However, superscripted references do not need to be altered; the CSS converts them automatically.

26. Ensure there are no spaces between end-of-sentence punctuation and the references. ...blah!¹ NOT ...blah! ¹

27. Check that all references and links refer to the correct footnotes and web resources.

28. On the title of any book we sell, the first time it appears in the text and every time in the footnotes, add a hyperlink to the store page that has the title in the url. (http://mises.org/store/Human-Action-The-Scholars-Edition-P119.aspx). If the store page you first find for the book does not have this title, click on the "Other products by" link (just above the price), and then reselect the book from the page that next appears. That should get you the right url.

29. All explicit urls (http:...) should be changed into text links. So the url in tip 29 should be replaced with (Human Action).

30. Begin all page references with p. or pp.

31. Comment on any links to pdf, video, or audio files, in order to flag them for BK.

32. Get rid of all underlining, even in links.

33. For emphasis, use italics instead of bold.

Errors in Quotations

34. Check the quotations against the sources to ensure that they are accurate.

35. If there is a serious error in the original, or in the quotation and you are unable to check the original, change it with square brackets.

36. If the error is not serious (wrong style, wrong spelling, wrong punctuation), you do not need to change it as long as the meaning is clear.

37. However, if the error is obviously a typo, you may silently correct it. (Chicago 11.8)

Grammar and Punctuation

38. Nonrestrictive clauses, which develop ideas that are not essential to the sentence, can be begun with which. Such clauses should be bracketed by commas. Restrictive clauses, on the other hand, should not be bracketed by commas, and can be begun with that (Chicago Q&A).

39. Put only one space after each period.

40. Turn off smart quotes in your AutoFormat. Find and Replace all quotation marks (single and double) and all apostrophes. Now they are all straight quotes.

41. Put finishing commas and periods inside quotation marks (both single and double) even when they do not logically belong there. (Chicago 6.8)

42. Make sure each possessive singular's apostrophe is followed by an s, even when the original word ends in s, as in Mises's. The only exceptions are singular nouns that are plural in form, as in The United States' (Chicago 7.17).

43. Use the Word ellipsis character.

44. When an ellipsis comes in the middle of a sentence, one space precedes and one follows it. When it comes between sentences, the closing punctuation mark precedes it, and a space follows it. Jon and Mark ... found a box!... Jon had nothing to say about it. (Adapted from Chicago 11.57).

45. No ellipsis is required at the beginning or end of a quotation, unless the sentence in question is deliberately incomplete (Chicago 11.54).

46. A comma on its own cannot separate independent clauses. Use a conjunction or a different punctuation mark. This is not A; it is B. OR This is not A, but it is B. NOT This is not A, it is B.

47. Use a comma after the penultimate item in a list separated by commas, before the final "and." I like pennies, ice cream, clowns, and cotton candy (Chicago 6.33).

48. No comma is needed between two verbs having the same subject, which form the parts of a compound predicate (Chicago 6.34).

49. Editors often wonder, Should I put a comma and an initial capital at the beginning of a question included within another sentence? The comma is always necessary. The capital indicates that the question is in a voice other than the author's. (Chicago 6.55)

50. In full month-day-year format, the year is bracketed by commas. Otherwise, it is not. July 4, 2009, was the moment. BUT ALSO July 2009 was the moment (Chicago 6.46).

51. If possible, rewrite to avoid using month-day-year as an adjective.

52. Every colon must be preceded by an independent clause (see Chicago 6.68).

53. When a colon introduces a quotation or more than one sentence, the first letter after it is capitalized. When it introduces a list, or only one sentence, it is not (Chicago 6.64).

54. Use en dash to mean 'up to and including' between numbers. No other punctuation mark can do this job. 1918-1919 means throughout both years, 1918/1919 means in either year (Chicago 6.83).

55. Use em dashes to bracket an amplifying or explaining phrase in a sentence (Chicago 6.88).

56. Put a space on each side of each em dash.

57. Use hyphens to connect the words in compound adjectives before nouns (Chicago 7.86

58. -ly adverbs, when they are first in a compound, cannot be hyphenated. a nicely done turkey. NOT a nicely-done turkey (Chicago 7.87).

59. Use an en dash in compound adjectives that themselves already contain compounds, as in price-control-induced shortages (Chicago 6.85).

60. Remove hyphens that separate prefixes from the words they modify. Neoliberal NOT Neo-liberal.

61. A hypenated noun has to be listed in the dictionary, otherwise it should be broken up into distinct words. This is something you should look for particularly in older essays. William Graham Sumner writes about his fellow-citizen, but it should in fact be fellow citizen when following Chicago rules. Laissez-faire is a hyphenated compound noun (and adjective), but it does not need to be italicized as a foreign phrase.

62. Hyphenate open compound nouns only very rarely, when necessary to disambiguate.

63. Check Chicago, 7.90, for a master list of tips on hyphenation.

Numbers

64. Numbers from one to ten should be spelled out.

65. Numbers that begin a sentence should be spelled out.

66. Numbers for percentages should always be given in numerals.

67. The % symbol should be used instead of the word percent only when there are numerous percentages in the article (Chicago 9.19).

68. Words like thousand and dozen do not cause hyphenation by forming compound adjectives composed only of numbers, but some numbers, like fifty-seven have hyphens inherent in them. Fifty-seven dozen eggs. BUT Thousand-year-old temple. (Chicago 9.4).

69. Centuries, like the 19th century, should be written with arabic numerals.

70. When showing a date range, include all four digits of both years. 1918-1919 NOT 1918-19.

Style

71. Shape the article for the intended audience: future Austrian intellectuals and those whom Hayek called the "secondhand dealers in ideas" (educators, journalists, doctors, ministers, artists, editors, etc.).

72. If the author uses a little-known acronym or technical term, and it would be clumsy to disambiguate in the text, you have two options: (1) Link it to an appropriate article in Wikipedia or the like. (2) Put rollover and the definition in a comment on the word. BK will set it so that a reader who hovers her mouse over the word will see the definition.

73. Contractions and informality are acceptable if they are used consistently.

74. Break the text up into paragraphs as small as logic will allow (around 3 sentences is good). This rule applies to classics and heroes.

75. Omit needless words. This is one of your most important tasks (Strunk's 13th Principle).

76. Get to the point quickly. The most important ideas should be at the beginning of the article, and at the beginning of sentences.

77. Cut any long, complex sentence into two or three short, direct sentences.

78. Limit the number of references to the author's previous work.

Diction, Spelling, Abbreviations, and Capitalization

79. Web-site, home page, and the like should be closed up to one word each: website, homepage.

80. The adjectival form of Mises is Misesian; for Coase, it's Coasean.

81. Never use the word liberal alone in a derogatory way. Try left-liberal instead. At Mises.org, liberal on its own means classical liberal, and it's a compliment.

82. Former, as opposed to latter, is pretentious. Try saying the specific thing you have in mind instead.

83. Anyone and everyone should sometimes be any one and every one. Health care should always be healthcare.

84. Most indefinite pronouns are usually singular when they are the subject of the verb (Chicago 5.64).

85. Use your head when deciding if a noun should be plural or singular in a given sentence. Try to maintain consistency throughout a piece (Chicago Q&A).

86. Forward, backward, and among. NOT forwards, backwards, and amongst. The former are American, the latter are British.

87. Americanize any European spellings.

88. Most academic degrees are lowercased when used generically, but Habilitation (and any other foreign words that are initial-capped in their own languages) are always initial-capped: Mel has a master's degree, but Humboldt has a Habilitation.

89. Schools of thought get a capital S when school is part of a proper name, as in the Austrian School.

90. In general, open up abbreviations: US dollar NOT USD.

91. When it's a noun, US should be expanded to United States. When it's an adjective and an acronym, it still doesn't get periods between the letters (Chicago 15.4).

92. In the names of countries, states, and other political divisions, the words county, state, and so on, are considered part of the name, and capitalized accordingly, when they follow the name. When preceding the name, such terms are usually capitalized in names of countries but lowercased in entities below the national level (Chicago 8.55).

93. When the name refers to the government, rather than the place it administers, words like county and state are always capitalized (Chicago 8.56).

Sending it back to BK

94. Comment on any phrases that jumped out at you as being worthy of a pull quote. Comment on any charts or graphs as well, so BK notices to prepare them.

95. Ensure that Track Changes hasn't fooled you into leaving out a space character, or leaving in an unwanted paragraph break.

96. Put the file in Web Layout view, and zoom to 200%

97. Search for nonbreaking hyphens (^-) and optional spaces (^s). Destroy them.

98. Rename the file. If the article has a four-digit preview number, the file name should be in the following format: yourinitials####-titlefragment.doc mr3555-DeLong's Defense.doc

99. If the file does not have a preview, just skip the numbers

mr-DeLong's Defense.doc

99 Tips for Editing Mises Dailies

Mike Reid — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:02:36 GMT
Revision 5 posted to How-To Wiki by Mike Reid on 10/24/2009 7:02:36 PM

99 Tips for Editing Mises Dailies

Filed under: Editing, Dailies

A Note on Authors

1.       Every author has a different personality, set of needs, and relationship with Mises Daily.

2.       Many of our authors are accustomed to writing for more scholarly publications. Try to give them a more journalistic tone.

3.       Our authors may be loosely categorized into three ranks of prestige: heroes (e.g., Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises himself), seniors (e.g., Walter Block and Stephan Kinsella), and juniors (e.g., Bill Barnes and Edward Gonzalez).

4.       The words of heroes are sacred. Keep a touch so light that no one will notice you changed anything. Just fix typos, and make them conform to Mises Daily style.

5.       The words of seniors are to be handled deferentially. Improve their tone, but don't cavalierly make large deletions or alterations.

6.       We have more discretion with our junior writers. Make their articles good to read.

7.       When you want to contact an author, ask BK to put you in touch. Give BK a CC of all emails.

8.       If an author insists on something, unless it contravenes Mises style (detailed below and in the newsletters), they shall have it.

Preparing the Draft for Editing

9.     Check the schedule to make sure that it is the article you need to do next.

10.   If it's a Classic, double-check that we haven't published it before.

11.   Remove any ads or existing pull quotes unless they need to be edited.

12.   If there is a bio, check it against the bio on that author's previous articles. If the bio is new, send it to BK. Either way, delete it from the article - BK puts the bios in.

Titles and Headings

13.   BK deletes and reinserts titles, and uses Word Styles to find and format subheadings. It is convenient for him if you leave the title in, though.

14.   If the article is a review, place the publication information for the book reviewed underneath the title of the review, in square brackets. BK will know how to format it then.

15.   JT commonly changes article titles just before publication.

16.   Format subheadings to Heading 2 Style. Sub-subheadings would be at Heading 3 Style.

17.   Ensure that all headings are properly capitalized (Chicago 8.167).

18.   Remove all footnotes from the title and subheadings. Footnotes in subheadings should be relocated to an appropriate place in the text (Chicago 1.77). The content of a footnote on the title should be cut and pasted to the bottom of the text above the Notes, and commented for BK with the word note.

Formatting

19.   Format the document to have single spacing between lines, and a 12 pt space after each paragraph.

20.   Delete extra carriage returns between paragraphs.

21.   Indent block quotes to .5 inches. Some documents will set them to .49, so check the number.

22.   Ensure that emphasis added at the end of a block quote has no caps or punctuation.

23.   Each letter or number in an inline list must have both (1) a left parens and (2) a right parens.

24.   Outside of headings and subheadings, the word chapter is lower case, and chapter numbers are given in arabic numerals (Chicago 8.190).

25.   Remove superscript and subscript. Rewrite eight m² to eight square meters. However, superscripted references do not need to be altered; the CSS converts them automatically.

26.   Ensure there are no spaces between end-of-sentence punctuation and the references. ...blah!¹ NOT ...blah! ¹

27.   Check that all references and links refer to the correct footnotes and web resources.

28.   On the title of any book we sell, the first time it appears in the text and every time in the footnotes, add a hyperlink to the store page that has the title in the url. (http://mises.org/store/Human-Action-The-Scholars-Edition-P119.aspx). If the store page you first find for the book does not have this title, click on the "Other products by" link (just above the price), and then reselect the book from the page that next appears. That should get you the right url.

29.   All explicit urls (http:...) should be changed into text links. So the url in tip 29 should be replaced with (Human Action).

30.   Begin all page references with p. or pp.

31.   Comment on any links to pdf, video, or audio files, in order to flag them for BK.

32.   Get rid of all underlining, even in links.

33.   For emphasis, use italics instead of bold.

Errors in Quotations

34.   Check the quotations against the sources to ensure that they are accurate.

35.   If there is a serious error in the original, or in the quotation and you are unable to check the original, change it with square brackets.

36.     If the error is not serious (wrong style, wrong spelling, wrong punctuation), you do not need to change it as long as the meaning is clear.

37.   However, if the error is obviously a typo, you may silently correct it. (Chicago 11.8)

Grammar and Punctuation

38.   Nonrestrictive clauses, which develop ideas that are not essential to the sentence, can be begun with which. Such clauses should be bracketed by commas. Restrictive clauses, on the other hand, should not be bracketed by commas, and can be begun with that (Chicago Q&A).

39.   Put only one space after each period.

40.   Turn off smart quotes in your AutoFormat. Find and Replace all quotation marks (single and double) and all apostrophes. Now they are all straight quotes.

41.   Put finishing commas and periods inside quotation marks (both single and double) even when they do not logically belong there.      (Chicago 6.8)

42.   Make sure each possessive singular's apostrophe is followed by an s, even when the original word ends in s, as in Mises's. The only exceptions are singular nouns that are plural in form, as in The United States' (Chicago 7.17).

43.   Use the Word ellipsis character.

44.   When an ellipsis comes in the middle of a sentence, one space precedes and one follows it. When it comes between sentences, the closing punctuation mark precedes it, and a space follows it. Jon and Mark ... found a box!... Jon had nothing to say about it. (Adapted from Chicago 11.57).

45.   No ellipsis is required at the beginning or end of a quotation, unless the sentence in question is deliberately incomplete (Chicago 11.54).

46.   A comma on its own cannot separate independent clauses. Use a conjunction or a different punctuation mark. This is not A; it is B. OR This is not A, but it is B. NOT This is not A, it is B.

47.   Use a comma after the penultimate item in a list separated by commas, before the final "and." I like pennies, ice cream, clowns, and cotton candy (Chicago 6.33).

48.   No comma is needed between two verbs having the same subject, which form the parts of a compound predicate (Chicago 6.34).

49.   Editors often wonder, Should I put a comma and an initial capital at the beginning of a question included within another sentence? The comma is always necessary. The capital indicates that the question is in a voice other than the author's. (Chicago 6.55)

50.   In full month-day-year format, the year is bracketed by commas. Otherwise, it is not. July 4, 2009, was the moment. BUT ALSO July 2009 was the moment (Chicago 6.46).

51.   If possible, rewrite to avoid using month-day-year as an adjective.

52.   Every colon must be preceded by an independent clause (see Chicago 6.68).

53.   When a colon introduces a quotation or more than one sentence, the first letter after it is capitalized. When it introduces a list, or only one sentence, it is not (Chicago 6.64).

54.   Use en dash to mean 'up to and including' between numbers. No other punctuation mark can do this job. 1918-1919 means throughout both years, 1918/1919 means in either year (Chicago 6.83).

55.   Use em dashes to bracket an amplifying or explaining phrase in a sentence (Chicago 6.88).

56.   Put a space on each side of each em dash.

57.   Use hyphens to connect the words in compound adjectives before nouns (Chicago 7.86

58.   -ly adverbs, when they are first in a compound, cannot be hyphenated. a nicely done turkey. NOT a nicely-done turkey (Chicago 7.87).

59.   Use an en dash in compound adjectives that themselves already contain compounds, as in price-control-induced shortages (Chicago 6.85).

60.   Remove hyphens that separate prefixes from the words they modify. Neoliberal NOT Neo-liberal.

61.   A hypenated noun has to be listed in the dictionary, otherwise it should be broken up into distinct words. This is something you should look for particularly in older essays. William Graham Sumner writes about his fellow-citizen, but it should in fact be fellow citizen when following Chicago rules. Laissez-faire is a hyphenated compound noun (and adjective), but it does not need to be italicized as a foreign phrase.

62.   Hyphenate open compound nouns only very rarely, when necessary to disambiguate.

63.   Check Chicago, 7.90, for a master list of tips on hyphenation.

Numbers

64.   Numbers from one to ten should be spelled out.

65.     Numbers that begin a sentence should be spelled out.

66.   Numbers for percentages should always be given in numerals.

67.     The % symbol should be used instead of the word percent only when there are numerous percentages in the article (Chicago 9.19).

68.   Words like thousand and dozen do not cause hyphenation by forming compound adjectives composed only of numbers, but some numbers, like fifty-seven have hyphens inherent in them. Fifty-seven dozen eggs. BUT Thousand-year-old temple. (Chicago 9.4).

69.   Centuries, like the 19th century, should be written with arabic numerals.

70.   When showing a date range, include all four digits of both years. 1918-1919 NOT 1918-19.

Style

71.   Shape the article for the intended audience: future Austrian intellectuals and those whom Hayek called the "secondhand dealers in ideas" (educators, journalists, doctors, ministers, artists, editors, etc.).

72.   If the author uses a little-known acronym or technical term, and it would be clumsy to disambiguate in the text, you have two options: (1) Link it to an appropriate article in Wikipedia or the like. (2) Put rollover and the definition in a comment on the word. BK will set it so that a reader who hovers her mouse over the word will see the definition.

73.   Contractions and informality are acceptable if they are used consistently.

74.   Break the text up into paragraphs as small as logic will allow (around 3 sentences is good). This rule applies to classics and heroes.

75.   Omit needless words. This is one of your most important tasks (Strunk's 13th Principle).

76.   Get to the point quickly. The most important ideas should be at the beginning of the article, and at the beginning of sentences.

77.   Cut any long, complex sentence into two or three short, direct sentences.

78.   Limit the number of references to the author's previous work.

Diction, Spelling, Abbreviations, and Capitalization

79.   Web-site, home page, and the like should be closed up to one word each: website, homepage.

80.   The adjectival form of Mises is Misesian; for Coase, it's Coasean.

81.   Never use the word liberal alone in a derogatory way. Try left-liberal instead. At Mises.org, liberal on its own means classical liberal, and it's a compliment.

82.   Former, as opposed to latter, is pretentious. Try saying the specific thing you have in mind instead.

83.   Anyone and everyone should sometimes be any one and every one. Health care should always be healthcare.

84.   Most indefinite pronouns are usually singular when they are the subject of the verb (Chicago 5.64).

85.   Use your head when deciding if a noun should be plural or singular in a given sentence. Try to maintain consistency throughout a piece (Chicago Q&A).

86.   Forward, backward, and among. NOT forwards, backwards, and amongst. The former are American, the latter are British.

87.   Americanize any European spellings.

88.   Most academic degrees are lowercased when used generically, but Habilitation (and any other foreign words that are initial-capped in their own languages) are always initial-capped: Mel has a master's degree, but Humboldt has a Habilitation.

89.   Schools of thought get a capital S when school is part of a proper name, as in the Austrian School.

90.   In general, open up abbreviations: US dollar NOT USD.

91.   When it's a noun, US should be expanded to United States. When it's an adjective and an acronym, it still doesn't get periods between the letters (Chicago 15.4).

92.   In the names of countries, states, and other political divisions, the words county, state, and so on, are considered part of the name, and capitalized accordingly, when they follow the name. When preceding the name, such terms are usually capitalized in names of countries but lowercased in entities below the national level (Chicago 8.55).

93.   When the name refers to the government, rather than the place it administers, words like county and state are always capitalized (Chicago 8.56).

Sending it back to BK

94.   Comment on any phrases that jumped out at you as being worthy of a pull quote. Comment on any charts or graphs as well, so BK notices to prepare them.

95.   Ensure that Track Changes hasn't fooled you into leaving out a space character, or leaving in an unwanted paragraph break.

96.   Put the file in Web Layout view, and zoom to 200%

97.   Search for nonbreaking hyphens (^-) and optional spaces (^s). Destroy them.

98.   Rename the file. If the article has a four-digit preview number, the file name should be in the following format: yourinitials####-titlefragment.doc    mr3555-DeLong's Defense.doc

99.   If the file does not have a preview, just skip the numbers

mr-DeLong's Defense.doc

99 Tips for Editing Mises Dailies

Mike Reid — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:00:19 GMT
Revision 4 posted to How-To Wiki by Mike Reid on 10/24/2009 7:00:19 PM

99 Tips for Editing Mises Dailies

Filed under: Editing, Dailies

A Note on Authors

1.       Every author has a different personality, set of needs, and relationship with Mises Daily.

2.       Many of our authors are accustomed to writing for more scholarly publications. Try to give them a more journalistic tone.

3.       Our authors may be loosely categorized into three ranks of prestige: heroes (e.g., Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises himself), seniors (e.g., Walter Block and Stephan Kinsella), and juniors (e.g., Bill Barnes and Edward Gonzalez).

4.       The words of heroes are sacred. Keep a touch so light that no one will notice you changed anything. Just fix typos, and make them conform to Mises Daily style.

5.       The words of seniors are to be handled deferentially. Improve their tone, but don't cavalierly make large deletions or alterations.

6.       We have more discretion with our junior writers. Make their articles good to read.

7.       When you want to contact an author, ask BK to put you in touch. Give BK a CC of all emails.

8.       If an author insists on something, unless it contravenes Mises style (detailed below and in the newsletters), they shall have it.

Preparing the Draft for Editing

9.       Check the schedule to make sure that it is the article you need to do next.

10.   If it's a Classic, double-check that we haven't published it before.

11.   Remove any ads or existing pull quotes unless they need to be edited.

12.   If there is a bio, check it against the bio on that author's previous articles. If the bio is new, send it to BK. Either way, delete it from the article - BK puts the bios in.

Titles and Headings

13.   BK deletes and reinserts titles, and uses Word Styles to find and format subheadings. It is convenient for him if you leave the title in, though.

14.   If the article is a review, place the publication information for the book reviewed underneath the title of the review, in square brackets. BK will know how to format it then.

15.   JT commonly changes article titles just before publication.

16.   Format subheadings to Heading 2 Style. Sub-subheadings would be at Heading 3 Style.

17.   Ensure that all headings are properly capitalized (Chicago 8.167).

18.   Remove all footnotes from the title and subheadings. Footnotes in subheadings should be relocated to an appropriate place in the text (Chicago 1.77). The content of a footnote on the title should be cut and pasted to the bottom of the text above the Notes, and commented for BK with the word note.

Formatting

19.   Format the document to have single spacing between lines, and a 12 pt space after each paragraph.

20.   Delete extra carriage returns between paragraphs.

21.   Indent block quotes to .5 inches. Some documents will set them to .49, so check the number.

22.   Ensure that emphasis added at the end of a block quote has no caps or punctuation.

23.   Each letter or number in an inline list must have both (1) a left parens and (2) a right parens.

24.   Outside of headings and subheadings, the word chapter is lower case, and chapter numbers are given in arabic numerals (Chicago 8.190).

25.   Remove superscript and subscript. Rewrite eight m² to eight square meters. However, superscripted references do not need to be altered; the CSS converts them automatically.

26.   Ensure there are no spaces between end-of-sentence punctuation and the references. ...blah!¹ NOT ...blah! ¹

27.   Check that all references and links refer to the correct footnotes and web resources.

28.   On the title of any book we sell, the first time it appears in the text and every time in the footnotes, add a hyperlink to the store page that has the title in the url. (http://mises.org/store/Human-Action-The-Scholars-Edition-P119.aspx). If the store page you first find for the book does not have this title, click on the "Other products by" link (just above the price), and then reselect the book from the page that next appears. That should get you the right url.

29.   All explicit urls (http:...) should be changed into text links. So the url in tip 29 should be replaced with (Human Action).

30.   Begin all page references with p. or pp.

31.   Comment on any links to pdf, video, or audio files, in order to flag them for BK.

32.   Get rid of all underlining, even in links.

33.   For emphasis, use italics instead of bold.

Errors in Quotations

34.   Check the quotations against the sources to ensure that they are accurate.

35.   If there is a serious error in the original, or in the quotation and you are unable to check the original, change it with square brackets.

36.     If the error is not serious (wrong style, wrong spelling, wrong punctuation), you do not need to change it as long as the meaning is clear.

37.   However, if the error is obviously a typo, you may silently correct it. (Chicago 11.8)

Grammar and Punctuation

38.   Nonrestrictive clauses, which develop ideas that are not essential to the sentence, can be begun with which. Such clauses should be bracketed by commas. Restrictive clauses, on the other hand, should not be bracketed by commas, and can be begun with that (Chicago Q&A).

39.   Put only one space after each period.

40.   Turn off smart quotes in your AutoFormat. Find and Replace all quotation marks (single and double) and all apostrophes. Now they are all straight quotes.

41.   Put finishing commas and periods inside quotation marks (both single and double) even when they do not logically belong there.      (Chicago 6.8)

42.   Make sure each possessive singular's apostrophe is followed by an s, even when the original word ends in s, as in Mises's. The only exceptions are singular nouns that are plural in form, as in The United States' (Chicago 7.17).

43.   Use the Word ellipsis character.

44.   When an ellipsis comes in the middle of a sentence, one space precedes and one follows it. When it comes between sentences, the closing punctuation mark precedes it, and a space follows it. Jon and Mark ... found a box!... Jon had nothing to say about it. (Adapted from Chicago 11.57).

45.   No ellipsis is required at the beginning or end of a quotation, unless the sentence in question is deliberately incomplete (Chicago 11.54).

46.   A comma on its own cannot separate independent clauses. Use a conjunction or a different punctuation mark. This is not A; it is B. OR This is not A, but it is B. NOT This is not A, it is B.

47.   Use a comma after the penultimate item in a list separated by commas, before the final "and." I like pennies, ice cream, clowns, and cotton candy (Chicago 6.33).

48.   No comma is needed between two verbs having the same subject, which form the parts of a compound predicate (Chicago 6.34).

49.   Editors often wonder, Should I put a comma and an initial capital at the beginning of a question included within another sentence? The comma is always necessary. The capital indicates that the question is in a voice other than the author's. (Chicago 6.55)

50.   In full month-day-year format, the year is bracketed by commas. Otherwise, it is not. July 4, 2009, was the moment. BUT ALSO July 2009 was the moment (Chicago 6.46).

51.   If possible, rewrite to avoid using month-day-year as an adjective.

52.   Every colon must be preceded by an independent clause (see Chicago 6.68).

53.   When a colon introduces a quotation or more than one sentence, the first letter after it is capitalized. When it introduces a list, or only one sentence, it is not (Chicago 6.64).

54.   Use en dash to mean 'up to and including' between numbers. No other punctuation mark can do this job. 1918-1919 means throughout both years, 1918/1919 means in either year (Chicago 6.83).

55.   Use em dashes to bracket an amplifying or explaining phrase in a sentence (Chicago 6.88).

56.   Put a space on each side of each em dash.

57.   Use hyphens to connect the words in compound adjectives before nouns (Chicago 7.86

58.   -ly adverbs, when they are first in a compound, cannot be hyphenated. a nicely done turkey. NOT a nicely-done turkey (Chicago 7.87).

59.   Use an en dash in compound adjectives that themselves already contain compounds, as in price-control-induced shortages (Chicago 6.85).

60.   Remove hyphens that separate prefixes from the words they modify. Neoliberal NOT Neo-liberal.

61.   A hypenated noun has to be listed in the dictionary, otherwise it should be broken up into distinct words. This is something you should look for particularly in older essays. William Graham Sumner writes about his fellow-citizen, but it should in fact be fellow citizen when following Chicago rules. Laissez-faire is a hyphenated compound noun (and adjective), but it does not need to be italicized as a foreign phrase.

62.   Hyphenate open compound nouns only very rarely, when necessary to disambiguate.

63.   Check Chicago, 7.90, for a master list of tips on hyphenation.

Numbers

64.   Numbers from one to ten should be spelled out.

65.     Numbers that begin a sentence should be spelled out.

66.   Numbers for percentages should always be given in numerals.

67.     The % symbol should be used instead of the word percent only when there are numerous percentages in the article (Chicago 9.19).

68.   Words like thousand and dozen do not cause hyphenation by forming compound adjectives composed only of numbers, but some numbers, like fifty-seven have hyphens inherent in them. Fifty-seven dozen eggs. BUT Thousand-year-old temple. (Chicago 9.4).

69.   Centuries, like the 19th century, should be written with arabic numerals.

70.   When showing a date range, include all four digits of both years. 1918-1919 NOT 1918-19.

Style

71.   Shape the article for the intended audience: future Austrian intellectuals and those whom Hayek called the "secondhand dealers in ideas" (educators, journalists, doctors, ministers, artists, editors, etc.).

72.   If the author uses a little-known acronym or technical term, and it would be clumsy to disambiguate in the text, you have two options: (1) Link it to an appropriate article in Wikipedia or the like. (2) Put rollover and the definition in a comment on the word. BK will set it so that a reader who hovers her mouse over the word will see the definition.

73.   Contractions and informality are acceptable if they are used consistently.

74.   Break the text up into paragraphs as small as logic will allow (around 3 sentences is good). This rule applies to classics and heroes.

75.   Omit needless words. This is one of your most important tasks (Strunk's 13th Principle).

76.   Get to the point quickly. The most important ideas should be at the beginning of the article, and at the beginning of sentences.

77.   Cut any long, complex sentence into two or three short, direct sentences.

78.   Limit the number of references to the author's previous work.

Diction, Spelling, Abbreviations, and Capitalization

79.   Web-site, home page, and the like should be closed up to one word each: website, homepage.

80.   The adjectival form of Mises is Misesian; for Coase, it's Coasean.

81.   Never use the word liberal alone in a derogatory way. Try left-liberal instead. At Mises.org, liberal on its own means classical liberal, and it's a compliment.

82.   Former, as opposed to latter, is pretentious. Try saying the specific thing you have in mind instead.

83.   Anyone and everyone should sometimes be any one and every one. Health care should always be healthcare.

84.   Most indefinite pronouns are usually singular when they are the subject of the verb (Chicago 5.64).

85.   Use your head when deciding if a noun should be plural or singular in a given sentence. Try to maintain consistency throughout a piece (Chicago Q&A).

86.   Forward, backward, and among. NOT forwards, backwards, and amongst. The former are American, the latter are British.

87.   Americanize any European spellings.

88.   Most academic degrees are lowercased when used generically, but Habilitation (and any other foreign words that are initial-capped in their own languages) are always initial-capped: Mel has a master's degree, but Humboldt has a Habilitation.

89.   Schools of thought get a capital S when school is part of a proper name, as in the Austrian School.

90.   In general, open up abbreviations: US dollar NOT USD.

91.   When it's a noun, US should be expanded to United States. When it's an adjective and an acronym, it still doesn't get periods between the letters (Chicago 15.4).

92.   In the names of countries, states, and other political divisions, the words county, state, and so on, are considered part of the name, and capitalized accordingly, when they follow the name. When preceding the name, such terms are usually capitalized in names of countries but lowercased in entities below the national level (Chicago 8.55).

93.   When the name refers to the government, rather than the place it administers, words like county and state are always capitalized (Chicago 8.56).

Sending it back to BK

94.   Comment on any phrases that jumped out at you as being worthy of a pull quote. Comment on any charts or graphs as well, so BK notices to prepare them.

95.   Ensure that Track Changes hasn't fooled you into leaving out a space character, or leaving in an unwanted paragraph break.

96.   Put the file in Web Layout view, and zoom to 200%

97.   Search for nonbreaking hyphens (^-) and optional spaces (^s). Destroy them.

98.   Rename the file. If the article has a four-digit preview number, the file name should be in the following format: yourinitials####-titlefragment.doc    mr3555-DeLong's Defense.doc

99.   If the file does not have a preview, just skip the numbers

mr-DeLong's Defense.doc

99 Tips for Editing Mises Dailies

Mike Reid — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:59:35 GMT
Revision 3 posted to How-To Wiki by Mike Reid on 10/24/2009 6:59:35 PM

Instructions 99 Tips for Editing Mises Dailies

Instructions

A Note on Authors

1.       Every author has a different personality, set of needs, and relationship with Mises Daily.

2.       Many of our authors are accustomed to writing for Editing more scholarly publications. Try to give them a more journalistic tone.

3.       Our authors may be loosely categorized into three ranks of prestige: heroes (e.g., Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises Dailieshimself), seniors (e.g., Walter Block and Stephan Kinsella), and juniors (e.g., Bill Barnes and Edward Gonzalez).

4.       The following list words of 63 instructions is meant heroes are sacred. Keep a touch so light that no one will notice you changed anything. Just fix typos, and make them conform to combine the Mises house Daily stylesheet.

5.       The words of seniors are to be handled deferentially. Improve their tone, the quick Chicago guidebut don't cavalierly make large deletions or alterations.

6.       We have more discretion with our junior writers. Make their articles good to read.

7.       When you want to contact an author, ask BK to put you in touch. Give BK a CC of all emails.

8.       If an author insists on something, unless it contravenes Mises style (detailed below and in the most common errors made or missed by copyeditorsnewsletters), they shall have it.

Preparing the Draft for Editing
1

9.       Check the schedule to make sure that it is the article you need to do next.

10.   If it’s 's a Classic, double-check that we haven’t 't published it before.
2

11.   Remove the any ads .
3.    Remove the or existing pull quotes unless they need to be edited.
4

12.   If there is a bio, check it against the bio on that author’s 's previous articles. If the bio is new, send it to BK. Either way, delete it from the article — - BK puts them the bios in.

Formatting
5

Titles and Headings

13.    Format    BK deletes and reinserts titles, and uses Word Styles to find and format subheadings. It is convenient for him if you leave the title in, though.

14.   If the article is a review, place the publication information for the book reviewed underneath the title of the review, in square brackets. BK will know how to Heading 1 Styleformat it then.
6

15.   JT commonly changes article titles just before publication.

16.   Format subheadings to Heading 2 Style.
7.     Format Notes heading to Sub-subheadings would be at Heading 5 3 Style.
8

17.   Ensure that all headings are properly capitalized (Chicago 8.167)8.167).
9

18.    Ensure that there are no    Remove all footnotes in from the title and subheadings. Footnotes in subheadings should be relocated to an appropriate place in the text (Chicago 1.77)
10. The content of a footnote on the title should be cut and pasted to the bottom of the text above the Notes, and commented for BK with the word note.

Formatting

19.   Format the document to have single spacing between lines, and a 12 pt space after each paragraph.
11

20.   Delete extra carriage returns between paragraphs.
12

21.   Indent block quotes to .5 inches. Some documents will set them to .49, so check the number.

22.   Ensure that emphasis added at the end of a block quotes quote has no caps or punctuation.

23.   Each letter or number in an inline list must have both (1) a left parens and (2) a right parens.

24.   Outside of headings and subheadings, the word chapter is lower case, and chapter numbers are indentedgiven in arabic numerals (Chicago 8.190).
13

25.   Remove superscript and subscriptfrom the text. Rewrite eight m2m² to eight square meters. However, superscripted references do not need to be altered; the CSS converts them and gives them square brackets automatically.
14
26.   Ensure there are no spaces between end-of-sentence punctuation and the references. ...blah!1..blah!¹ NOT ...blah! ¹
15

27.   Check that all references and links refer to the correct footnotes .
16.    Ensure that any in-text citations at the end of block quotations have no caps and no punctuation (but obey rule #17).
17.    Begin all page references with p. or ppweb resources.
18

28.   On the title of any book we sell, the first time it appears in the text and every time in the footnotes, add a hyperlink to the appropriate store page that has the title in the url.
19(http://mises.org/store/Human-Action-The-Scholars-Edition-P119.aspx). If the store page you first find for the book does not have this title, click on the "Other products by" link (just above the price), and then reselect the book from the page that next appears. That should get you the right url.

29.   All explicit urls (http:...) should be changed into text links. So the url in tip 29 should be replaced with (Human Action).

30.   Begin all page references with p. or pp.

31.   Comment on any links to pdf, video, or audio files, in order to flag them for BK.
20

32.   Get rid of all underlining, even in links.
21

33.   For emphasis, use italics instead of bold.
22

Errors in Quotations

34.    Academic degrees    Check the quotations against the sources to ensure that they are lowercased when used genericallyaccurate.

35.   If there is a serious error in the original, but Habilitation (or in the quotation and any other foreign words that you are initial-capped in their own languages) remain initial-capped: Mel has a master's degreeunable to check the original, but Humboldt has change it with square brackets.

36.     If the error is not serious (wrong style, wrong spelling, wrong punctuation), you do not need to change it as long as the meaning is clear.

37.   However, if the error is obviously a Habilitationtypo, you may silently correct it. (Chicago 11.8)

Grammar and Punctuation
23

38.   Nonrestrictive clauses, which develop ideas that are not essential to the sentence, can be begun with which. Such clauses should be bracketed by commas. Restrictive clauses, on the other hand, should not be bracketed by commas, and can be begun with that (Chicago Q&A).

39.   Put only one space after each period.

40.   Turn off smart quotes in your AutoFormat. Find and Replace all quotation marks (single and double) and all apostrophes. Now they are all straight quotes.
24

41.   Put finishing commas and periods inside quotation marks (both single and double) even when they do not logically belong there.      (Chicago 6.8)
25

42.   Make sure each possessive singular's apostrophe is followed by an s, even when the original word ends in s, as in Mises's. The only exceptions are singular nouns that are plural in form, as in The United States' (Chicago 7.17).

43.   Use the Word ellipsis character… .

44.   When it an ellipsis comes in the middle of a sentence, one space precedes and one follows it. When it comes between sentences, the closing punctuation mark precedes it, and a space follows it. I found Jon and Mark ... found a box!... Jon had nothing to say about it. (Adapted from Chicago 11.57)
26.

45.   No ellipsis is required at the beginning or end of a quotation, unless the sentence in question is deliberately incomplete . (Chicago 11.54)
27.    Make sure each possessive singular’s apostrophe is followed by an s, even when the original word ends in s, as in Mises’s. The only exception is singular nouns that are plural in form, as in The United States'.
28

46.   A comma on its own cannot separate independent clauses. You need Use a conjunction or a different punctuation mark. This is not A; it is B. OR This is not A, but it is B. NOT This is not A, it is B.
29

47.   Use a comma after the penultimate item in a list separated by commas, before the final "and." I like pennies, ice cream, clowns, and cotton candy (Chicago 6.33).
30

48.   No comma is needed between two verbs having the same subject, which form the parts of a compound predicate (Chicago 6.34).

49.   Editors often wonder, Should I put a comma and an initial capital at the beginning of a question included within another sentence? The comma is always necessary. The capital indicates that the question is in a voice other than the author's. (Chicago 6.55)

50.   In full month-day-year format, the year is bracketed by commas. Otherwise, it is not. July 4, 2009, was the moment. BUT ALSO July 2009 was the moment (Chicago 6.46).
31

51.   If possible, rewrite to avoid using month-day-year as an adjective. (Chicago 6.46)
32

52.    A    Every colon must be preceded by an independent clause (see Chicago 6.68).
33

53.    Each numbers in an inline list must have both (1)    When a left parens and (2) colon introduces a right parens.
34.    Numbers from quotation or more than one to ten should be spelled out.
35.    Except that numbers for percentages should always be given in Arabic numerals.
36sentence, the first letter after it is capitalized. When showing it introduces a date rangelist, include all four digits of both years. 1918–1919 NOT 1918–19or only one sentence, it is not (Chicago 6.64).
37

54.   Use en dash to mean ‘up 'up to and including’ ' between numbers. No other punctuation mark can do this job. 1918–19191918-1919 means throughout both years, 1918/1919 means in either year (Chicago 6.83).
38

55.   Use em dashes to set off bracket an amplifying or explaining phrase in a sentence (Chicago 6.88).
39

56.   Put a space on each sides side of each em dash.
40

57.   Use hyphens to connect the words in compound adjectives before nouns .
41.    Use an en dash in compound adjectives that themselves already contain compounds, as in price-control–induced shortages. (Chicago 6.85)
427.86

58.   -ly adverbs, when they are first in a compound, cannot be hyphenated. a nicely done turkey. NOT a nicely-done turkey (Chicago 7.87).
43

59.   Use an en dash in compound adjectives that themselves already contain compounds, as in price-control-induced shortages (Chicago 6.85).

60.   Remove most hyphens that separate prefixes from the words they modify. Neoliberal NOT Neo-liberal.
44

61.   A hypenated noun has to be listed in the dictionary, otherwise it should be broken up into distinct words. This is something you should look for particularly in older essays. William Graham Sumner writes about his fellow-citizen, but it should in fact be fellow citizen when following Chicago rules.
45Laissez-faire is a hyphenated compound noun (and adjective), but it does not need to be italicized as a foreign phrase.

62.   Hyphenate open compounds compound nouns only very rarely, when necessary to disambiguate.
46

63.    Put only    Check Chicago, 7.90, for a master list of tips on hyphenation.

Numbers

64.   Numbers from one space after each periodto ten should be spelled out.

65.     Numbers that begin a sentence should be spelled out.

66.   Numbers for percentages should always be given in numerals.

67.     The % symbol should be used instead of the word percent only when there are numerous percentages in the article (Chicago 9.19).

68.   Words like thousand and dozen do not cause hyphenation by forming compound adjectives composed only of numbers, but some numbers, like fifty-seven have hyphens inherent in them. Fifty-seven dozen eggs. BUT Thousand-year-old temple. (Chicago 9.4).

69.   Centuries, like the 19th century, should be written with arabic numerals.

70.   When showing a date range, include all four digits of both years. 1918-1919 NOT 1918-19.

Style
47

71.   Shape the article for the intended audience: future Austrian intellectuals and those whom Hayek called the "secondhand dealers in ideas" (educators, journalists, doctors, ministers, artists, editors, etc.).

72.   If the author uses a little-known acronym or technical term, and it would be clumsy to disambiguate in the text, you have two options: (1) Link it to an appropriate article in Wikipedia or the like. (2) Put rollover and the definition in a comment on the word. BK will set it so that a reader who hovers her mouse over the word will see the definition.

73.   Contractions and informality are acceptable if they are used consistently.

74.   Break the text up into paragraphs as small as logic will allow (around 3 sentences is good). This rule applies to classics and heroes.

75.   Omit needless words. This is one of your most important tasks (Strunk's 13th Principle).

76.   Get to the point quickly. The most important ideas should be at the beginning of the article, and at the beginning of sentences.

77.   Cut any long, complex sentence into two or three short, direct sentences.

78.   Limit the number of references to the author's previous work.

Diction, Spelling, and Abbreviations
48, and Capitalization

79.   Web-site, home page, and the like should be closed up to one word each: website, homepage.

80.   The words adjectival form of Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises are sacred. Keep a light touchis Misesian; for Coase, it's Coasean.
49

81.   Never use the word liberal alone in a derogatory way.
50Try left-liberal instead. At Mises.org, liberal on its own means classical liberal, and it's a compliment.

82.   Former, as opposed to latter, is pretentious. Try saying the specific thing you have in mind instead.
51

83.   Anyone and everyone should sometimes be any one and every one.
52Health care should always be healthcare.

84.   Most indefinite pronouns are usually singular when they are the subject of the verb (Chicago 5.64).

85.   Use your head when deciding if a noun should be plural or singular in a given sentence. Try to maintain consistency throughout a piece (Chicago Q&A).

86.   Forward, backward, and among. NOT forwards, backwards, and amongst. The former are American, the latter are British.

87.   Americanize any European spellings
53.

88.   Most academic degrees are lowercased when used generically, but Habilitation (and any other foreign words that are initial-capped in their own languages) are always initial-capped: Mel has a master's degree, but Humboldt has a Habilitation.

89.   Schools of thought get a capital S when it’s school is part of a proper name, as in the Austrian School.
54

90.   In general, open up abbreviations: US dollar NOT USD.

91.   When it’s 's a noun, US should be expanded to United States. When it’s 's an adjective and an acronym, it still doesn’t 't get periods between the letters (Chicago 15.4).
55

92.   In generalthe names of countries, open up abbreviations: US dollar NOT USD.
56.    Web-sitestates, home pageand other political divisions, the words county, state, and so on, are considered part of the like should be closed up to one word each: websitename, homepage.
57and capitalized accordingly, when they follow the name.     The adjectival form of Mises is Misesian; for CoaseWhen preceding the name, it's Coaseansuch terms are usually capitalized in names of countries but lowercased in entities below the national level (Chicago 8.55).
58

93.    Centuries   When the name refers to the government, like rather than the 19th centuryplace it administers, should be written with Arabic numeralswords like county and state are always capitalized (Chicago 8.56).

Sending it back to BK
59

94.   Comment on any phrases that jumped out at you as being worthy of a pull quote. Comment on any charts or graphs as well, so BK notices to prepare them.

95.   Ensure that Track Changes hasn't fooled you into leaving out a space character, or leaving in an unwanted paragraph break
60.

96.   Put the file in Web Layout view.
61.    Zoom , and zoom to 200%
62

97.   Search for nonbreaking hyphens (^-) and optional spaces (^s). Destroy them.

98.   Rename the file. If the article has a four-digit preview number, the file name should be in the following format: yourinitials####-titlefragment.doc    mr3555-DeLong's Defense.doc
63

99.   If the file does not have a preview, just skip the numbers    mr-Delong

mr-DeLong's Defense.doc

Instructions for Editing Mises Dailies

Mike Reid — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:32:57 GMT
Revision 2 posted to How-To Wiki by Mike Reid on 8/1/2009 1:32:57 PM

Instructions for Editing Mises Dailies

Instructions for Editing Mises Dailies

The following list of 63 instructions is meant to combine the Mises house style sheet, the quick Chicago guide, and the most common errors made or missed by copyeditors.


Preparing the Draft for Editing
1.    If it’s a Classic, double-check that we haven’t published it before.
2.    Remove the ads.
3.    Remove the pull quotes unless they need to be edited.
4.    If there is a bio, check it against the bio on that author’s previous articles. If the bio is new, send it to BK. Either way, delete it from the article — BK puts them in.

Formatting
5.    Format title to Heading 1 Style.
6.    Format subheadings to Heading 2 Style.
7.    Format Notes heading to Heading 5 Style.
8.    Ensure that all headings are properly capitalized (Chicago 8.167).
9.    Ensure that there are no footnotes in the subheadings. (Chicago 1.77)
10.    Format the document to have a 12 pt space after each paragraph.
11.    Delete extra carriage returns between paragraphs.
12.    Ensure that block quotes are indented.
13.    Remove superscript and subscript from the text. Rewrite eight m2 to eight square meters. However, superscripted references do not need to be altered; the CSS converts them and gives them square brackets automatically.
14.    Ensure there are no spaces between end-of-sentence punctuation and the references. ...blah!1 NOT ...blah! 1
15.    Check that references refer to the correct footnotes.
16.    Ensure that any in-text citations at the end of block quotations have no caps and no punctuation (but obey rule #17).
17.    Begin all page references with p. or pp.
18.    On the title of any book we sell, add a hyperlink to the appropriate store page.
19.    Comment on any links to pdf, video, or audio files, in order to flag them for BK.
20.    Get rid of all underlining, even in links.
21.    For emphasis, use italics instead of bold.
22.    Academic degrees are lowercased when used generically, but Habilitation (and any other foreign words that are initial-capped in their own languages) remain initial-capped: Mel has a master's degree, but Humboldt has a Habilitation.

Punctuation
23.    Turn off smart quotes in your AutoFormat. Find and Replace all quotation marks (single and double) and all apostrophes. Now they are all straight quotes.
24.    Put finishing commas and periods inside quotation marks (both single and double) even when they do not logically belong there.    (Chicago 6.8)
25.    Use the Word ellipsis character … When it comes in the middle of a sentence, one space precedes and follows it. When it comes between sentences, the closing punctuation mark precedes it, and a space follows it. I found ... a box!... Jon had nothing to say. (Adapted from Chicago 11.57)
26.    No ellipsis is required at the beginning or end of a quotation, unless the sentence in question is deliberately incomplete. (Chicago 11.54)
27.    Make sure each possessive singular’s apostrophe is followed by an s, even when the original word ends in s, as in Mises’s. ’s. The only exception is singular nouns that are plural in form. , as in The United States'.
28.    A comma on its own cannot separate independent clauses. You need a conjunction or a different punctuation mark. This is not A; it is B. OR This is not A, but it is B. NOT This is not A, it is B.
29.    Use a comma after the penultimate item in a list separated by commas, before the final "and." I like pennies, ice cream, clowns, and cotton candy.
30.    In full month-day-year format, the year is bracketed by commas. Otherwise, it is not. July 4, 2009, was the moment. BUT ALSO July 2009 was the moment.
31.    If possible, rewrite to avoid using month-day-year as an adjective. (Chicago 6.46)
32.    A colon must be preceded by an independent clause.
33.    Each numbers in an inline list must have both (1) a left parens and (2) a right parens.
34.    Numbers from one to ten should be spelled out.
35.    Numbers     Except that numbers for percentages should always be given in Arabic numerals.
36.    When showing a date range, include all four digits of both years. 1918–1919 NOT 1918–19.–19.
37.    Use en dash to mean ‘up to and including’ between numbers. No other punctuation mark can do this job. 1918–1919 means throughout both years, 1918/1919 means in either year.
38.    Use em dashes to set off an amplifying or explaining phrase in a sentence.
39.    Put a space on each sides of each em dash.
40.    Use hyphens to connect the words in compound adjectives before nouns.
41.    Use an en dash in compound adjectives that themselves already contain compounds, as in price-control–induced shortages. (Chicago 6.85)
42.    -ly adverbs, when they are first in a compound, cannot be hyphenated. a nicely done turkey. NOT a nicely-done turkey.
43.    Remove most hyphens that separate prefixes , like from the one in neo-liberalwords they modify. Neoliberal NOT Neo-liberal.
44.    A hypenated noun has to be listed in the dictionary, otherwise it should be broken up into distinct words. This is something you should look for particularly in older essays. William Graham Sumner writes about "fellow-citizen," fellow-citizen, but it should in fact be fellow citizen when following Chicago rules.
45.    Hyphenate open compounds only very rarely, when necessary to disambiguate.
46.    Put only one space after each period.

Style
47.    Contractions and informality are acceptable if they are used consistently

Diction, Spelling, and Abbreviations
48.    The words of Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises are sacred. Keep a light touch.
49.    Never use the word liberal alone in a derogatory way.
50.    Former, as opposed to latter, is pretentious. Try saying the specific thing you have in mind instead.
51.    Anyone and everyone should sometimes be any one and every one.
52.    Americanize any European spellings
53.    Schools of thought get a capital S when it’s part of a proper name, as in the Austrian School.
54.    When it’s a noun, US should be expanded to United States. When it’s an adjective and an acronym, it still doesn’t get periods between the letters.
55.    In general, open up abbreviations: US dollar NOT USD.
56.    Web-site, home page, and the like should be closed up to one word each: website, homepage.
57.    Ensure that the     The adjectival form of Mises is Misesian; for Coase, it's Coasean.
58.    Centuries, like the 19th century, should be written with Arabic numerals.

Sending it back to BK
59.    Ensure that Track Changes hasn't fooled you into leaving out a space character, or leaving in an unwanted paragraph break
60.    Put the file in Web Layout view.
61.    Zoom to 200%
62.    Rename the file. If the article has a four-digit preview number, the file name should be in the following format: yourinitials####-titlefragment.doc    mr3555-DeLong's Defense.doc
63.    If the file does not have a preview, just skip the numbers    mr-Delong's Defense.doc

Instructions for Editing Mises Dailies

Mike Reid — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:18:34 GMT
Revision 1 posted to How-To Wiki by Mike Reid on 8/1/2009 1:18:34 PM

Instructions for Editing Mises Dailies

Preparing the Draft for Editing
1.    If it’s a Classic, double-check that we haven’t published it before.
2.    Remove the ads.
3.    Remove the pull quotes unless they need to be edited.
4.    If there is a bio, check it against the bio on that author’s previous articles. If the bio is new, send it to BK. Either way, delete it from the article — BK puts them in.

Formatting
5.    Format title to Heading 1 Style.
6.    Format subheadings to Heading 2 Style.
7.    Format Notes heading to Heading 5 Style.
8.    Ensure that all headings are properly capitalized (Chicago 8.167).
9.    Ensure that there are no footnotes in the subheadings. (Chicago 1.77)
10.    Format the document to have a 12 pt space after each paragraph.
11.    Delete extra carriage returns between paragraphs.
12.    Ensure that block quotes are indented.
13.    Remove superscript and subscript from the text. Rewrite eight m2 to eight square meters. However, superscripted references do not need to be altered; the CSS converts them automatically
14.    Ensure there are no spaces between end-of-sentence punctuation and the references. ...blah!1 NOT ...blah! 1
15.    Check that references refer to the correct footnotes.
16.    Ensure that any in-text citations at the end of block quotations have no caps and no punctuation (but obey rule #17).
17.    Begin all page references with p. or pp.
18.    On the title of any book we sell, add a hyperlink to the appropriate store page.
19.    Comment on any links to pdf, video, or audio files, in order to flag them for BK.
20.    Get rid of all underlining, even in links.
21.    For emphasis, use italics instead of bold.
22.    Academic degrees are lowercased when used generically, but Habilitation (and any other foreign words that are initial-capped in their own languages) remain initial-capped: Mel has a master's degree, but Humboldt has a Habilitation.

Punctuation
23.    Turn off smart quotes in your AutoFormat. Find and Replace all quotation marks (single and double) and all apostrophes. Now they are all straight quotes.
24.    Put finishing commas and periods inside quotation marks (both single and double) even when they do not logically belong there.    (Chicago 6.8)
25.    Use the Word ellipsis character … When it comes in the middle of a sentence, one space precedes and follows it. When it comes between sentences, the closing punctuation mark precedes it, and a space follows it. I found ... a box!... Jon had nothing to say. (Adapted from Chicago 11.57)
26.    No ellipsis is required at the beginning or end of a quotation, unless the sentence in question is deliberately incomplete. (Chicago 11.54)
27.    Make sure each possessive singular’s apostrophe is followed by an s, even when the original word ends in s, as in Mises’s. The only exception is singular nouns that are plural in form. The United States'.
28.    A comma on its own cannot separate independent clauses. You need a conjunction or a different punctuation mark. This is not A; it is B. OR This is not A, but it is B. NOT This is not A, it is B.
29.    Use a comma after the penultimate item in a list separated by commas, before the final "and." I like pennies, ice cream, clowns, and cotton candy.
30.    In full month-day-year format, the year is bracketed by commas. Otherwise, it is not. July 4, 2009, was the moment. BUT ALSO July 2009 was the moment.
31.    If possible, rewrite to avoid using month-day-year as an adjective. (Chicago 6.46)
32.    A colon must be preceded by an independent clause.
33.    Each numbers in an inline list must have both (1) a left parens and (2) a right parens.
34.    Numbers from one to ten should be spelled out.
35.    Numbers for percentages should always be given in Arabic numerals.
36.    When showing a date range, include all four digits of both years. 1918–1919 NOT 1918–19.
37.    Use en dash to mean ‘up to and including’ between numbers. No other punctuation mark can do this job. 1918–1919 means throughout both years, 1918/1919 means in either year.
38.    Use em dashes to set off an amplifying or explaining phrase in a sentence.
39.    Put a space on each sides of each em dash.
40.    Use hyphens to connect the words in compound adjectives before nouns.
41.    Use an en dash in compound adjectives that themselves already contain compounds, as in price-control–induced shortages. (Chicago 6.85)
42.    -ly adverbs, when they are first in a compound, cannot be hyphenated. a nicely done turkey. NOT a nicely-done turkey.
43.    Remove most hyphens that separate prefixes, like the one in neo-liberal.
44.    A hypenated noun has to be listed in the dictionary, otherwise it should be broken up into distinct words. This is something you should look for particularly in older essays. William Graham Sumner writes about "fellow-citizen," but it should in fact be fellow citizen when following Chicago rules.
45.    Hyphenate open compounds only very rarely, when necessary to disambiguate.
46.    Put only one space after each period.

Style
47.    Contractions and informality are acceptable if they are used consistently

Diction, Spelling, and Abbreviations
48.    The words of Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises are sacred. Keep a light touch.
49.    Never use the word liberal alone in a derogatory way.
50.    Former, as opposed to latter, is pretentious. Try saying the specific thing you have in mind instead.
51.    Anyone and everyone should sometimes be any one and every one.
52.    Americanize any European spellings
53.    Schools of thought get a capital S when it’s part of a proper name, as in the Austrian School.
54.    When it’s a noun, US should be expanded to United States. When it’s an adjective and an acronym, it still doesn’t get periods between the letters.
55.    In general, open up abbreviations: US dollar NOT USD.
56.    Web-site, home page, and the like should be closed up to one word each: website, homepage.
57.    Ensure that the adjectival form of Mises is Misesian; for Coase, it's Coasean.
58.    Centuries, like the 19th century, should be written with Arabic numerals.

Sending it back to BK
59.    Ensure that Track Changes hasn't fooled you into leaving out a space character, or leaving in an unwanted paragraph break
60.    Put the file in Web Layout view.
61.    Zoom to 200%
62.    Rename the file. If the article has a four-digit preview number, the file name should be in the following format: yourinitials####-titlefragment.doc    mr3555-DeLong's Defense.doc
63.    If the file does not have a preview, just skip the numbers
mr-Delong's Defense.doc