The Holger H. Hoos Style Guide

Spelling

• Use British spelling:
• Colour, neighbourhood, behaviour...
• Use the (-se) word forms not the (-ze) word forms. Don't forget all the varaiants: (-sed,-sation,-sations,-sing): Optimise, optimised, optimisation, optimisations, optimising.
• More examples: penalise, analyse, initialise, minimise, maximise, summarise, characterise, normalise, randomise, conceptualise, emphasise.
• Exceptions: size (sized, sizing...).

Capitalisation

• For (chapters,sections,figures,equations,tables,etc...) capitalise only when referencing a specific number. For example, in this chapter we blah blah, but in Chapter 6 we blah blah.
• Capitalise proper names, such as Hamming distance or Boolean formula.
• When you capitalise a bullet, it should be a full sentence (but not strictly) and it must end with a period.

-- Main.davet - 12 May 2005