Style guide

Word counts

1150 words = 1 page (4Hx3W)
820 words = 3/4 page (3Hx3W)
750 words = 2 columns (4Hx2W)
560 words = 1/2 page (2Hx3W or 2Hx2H)
375 words = 1 column or 1/3 page (4Hx1W or 2Hx2W)
185 words = 1/2 column (2Hx1W)

Text styles

• Times New Roman, 12 point
• single spacing between words
• 1.5 spacing between lines
• no indentation for new paragraphs
• space between paragraphs
• single quote marks ‘……’
• double inverted commas for quotations within quotations ‘……“…a quote…”……’

Title styles

• sentence case for titles
• titles to be suggested by authors/reviewers

Additional information

• reviewer’s name (bold) & biographical details (italics) at end of article
• Book/film/performance details at the start of the article:
  Name of item reviewed
  Author/Producer/Performer
  Publisher, Publisher location, Publication year

Dates

• dd month 27 February (NOT 27th February)
• dd month yyyy 27 February 1940 (NOT 27th February 1940)

Abbreviations

• Abbreviations for titles:  SJ Ms Mr Fr Sr Dr
  (NO stop mark – a stop is a punctuation mark that ends a sentence)
• Abbreviations for states: ACT Qld NSW NT SA Tas Vic WA
• Names & initials J K Rowlings, D G Bradman, K R Miller
• County: Co

Publication titles

• Newspaper, magazine, journal titles in italics:
  The Age
  …the Sydney Morning Herald
  Ulysses
  James Joyce, Ulysses
  James Joyce’s Ulysses
  The Story of Australian Folksong

Numbers

• One, two … ten, 11, 12, 13 etc