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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    There are five heading levels used in writing articles (the top-level one being reserved for the auto-displayed page name). [b] Terms in description lists (example: Glossary of the American trucking industry) Table headers and captions (but not image captions) A link to the page on which that link appears, called a self link

  3. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles of works - Wikipedia

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    Use {{Italic title}} to italicize the part of the title before the first parenthesis. Use {{Italic disambiguation}} to italicize the part of the title in the parenthesis. Use the {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} magic word or {{Italic title|string=}} template for titles with a mix of italic and roman text, as at List of Sex and the City episodes and The Hustler.

  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia article titles and section headings use sentence case, not title case; see Wikipedia:Article titles and § Section headings. For capitalization of list items, see § Bulleted and numbered lists. Other points concerning capitalization are summarized below. Full information can be found at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters.

  5. Title (publishing) - Wikipedia

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    The title of a book, or any other published text or work of art, is a name for the work which is usually chosen by the author. A title can be used to identify the work, to put it in context, to convey a minimal summary of its contents, and to pique the reader's curiosity. Some works supplement the title with a subtitle.

  6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section - Wikipedia

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    For example, Van Cliburn's first sentence links to Cold War because his fame came partly from his Tchaikovsky Competition victory being used as a Cold War symbol. The first sentence of a page about someone who rose to fame in the 1950s for reasons unrelated to the Cold War should not mention the Cold War at all, even though the Cold War is part ...

  7. Standard manuscript format - Wikipedia

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    Standard manuscript format is a formatting style for manuscripts of short stories, novels, poems and other literary works submitted by authors to publishers.Even with the advent of desktop publishing, making it possible for anyone to prepare text that appears professionally typeset, many publishers still require authors to submit manuscripts within their respective guidelines.

  8. Icing, Frosting, Glaze—What’s the Difference? - AOL

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    Would the phrase “That’s just icing on the cake” have the same meaning if it was “That’s just glaze on the cake”? It certainly doesn’t have the same ring to it, but what really ...

  9. The Elements of Style - Wikipedia

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    The Elements of Style (also called Strunk & White) is a style guide for formal grammar used in American English writing. The first publishing was written by William Strunk Jr. in 1918, and published by Harcourt in 1920, comprising eight "elementary rules of usage," ten "elementary principles of composition," "a few matters of form," a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused," and a ...