Style guidelines

Creating a new page

Every page should have the following at the bottom:

==References==

{{Reflist}}

[[Category:XXX]]

[[Category:XXX]]

Research pages

Pages that document research should be named after the surnames of the authors listed for the research, followed by the year of the research paper in parentheses, for example:

• Munafò, Roberts, Bauld & Leonards (2011)

The first paragraph should contain the title of the paper linked to either a copy of the paper uploaded to this site or a link to the paper/summary on the internet. From the example above:

The title of the study Plain Packaging Increases Visual Attention To Health Warnings On Cigarette Packs In Non-Smokers And Weekly Smokers But Not Daily Smokers pretty much sums up the findings [...]

The page should also have, in addition, a block at the end listing the authors (Forename Surname), in the order they are listed in the paper, hyperlinked to their page on here (it doesn't matter if the page doesn't exist yet.) This should immediately precede the References section:

== Authors ==

* [[Marcus Munafò]]

* [[Nicole Roberts]]

* [[Linda Bauld]]

* [[Ute Leonards]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Research]]

[[Category:XXX]]

People

Where relevant, the first section for a page about a person should be Positions held, listing in chronological order the positions that person has held (first by start date, then by end date if necessary.):

== Positions held ==

* <start year> - <end year> - position held

* <start year> - <end year> - position held

==References==

{{Reflist}}

[[Category:People]]

[[Category:XXX]]

References

References should use the Cite extension. As mentioned above, every page should have the {{Reflist}} directive.

The format of references should follow the following format, with the second being used for the first instance of a repeated reference, and third for subsequent instances:

<ref>[http://www.example.com/directory/page.php Page title] - Site name</ref>

<ref name="shortname">[http://www.example.com/directory/page.php Page title] - Site name</ref>

<ref name="shortname" />

Charities

When referencing the Charity Commission (England and Wales) or the Office of the Scottish Charity Register (Scotland,) use the following templates to directly link to the relevant pages:

{{UKCharity|<charity number>}}

e.g.: #000000

{{ScotCharity|<charity number>}}

e.g.: 000000

Quotations

There are (currently) 10 quotation templates with different colours:

{{quote|quoted text here}}

{{quote2|quoted text here}}

{{quote3|quoted text here}}

{{quote4|quoted text here}}

{{quote5|quoted text here}}

{{quote6|quoted text here}}

{{quote7|quoted text here}}

{{quote8|quoted text here}}

{{quote9|quoted text here}}

Prefer to use the earlier ones to the latter ones (since the colours may change,) and unless it's necessary to clearly show that two different sources are being quoted (for example a conversation) try to stick to just one; {{quote|...}}