Please consult the Acadiensis Style Guide for formatting, language, and citation requirements.
STYLE TIPS
A brief checklist (for more details, see the Acadiensis Style Guide):
- Remove your name from the text and the file to preserve anonymity
- Provide ordinal numbers for centuries, without superscript: 17th century
- Dates are written as day/month/year: 1 July 1867
- Cardinal numbers from zero to nine are spelled out while numbers from 10 and up are expressed in numerals
- Serial comma is used (ie. wood, wind, and water)
Below are sample citations for frequently used types of sources. The Acadiensis Style Guide provides further information on chapters, dissertations, Indigenous sources of knowledge, online materials, interviews, and archival sources.
INDIGENOUS SPELLINGS
Details are provided in the Acadiensis style guide for spellings of Indigenous community names. These spellings continue to evolve and Acadiensis provides linguistic renderings that are closest to each community’s pronunciation. This includes using the schwa symbol (ə) in the words Wəlastəkwewiyik and Wəlastəkwey.
If you are using the Acadiensis website search tool, other spellings for Mi’kmaq/Mi’gmaq, Wəlastəkwewiyik, and Peskotomuhkatiyik have included:
- Malecite, Malécite, Maliseet, Wulstukwik, Wolastoqiyik
- Micmac, micmaque (adj. f.)
- Passamaquoddy
Other words identifying Indigenous peoples and members of First Nations in past issues have included:
- Indians
- Native peoples
- Natives
- Aboriginals
- Indigenous
- Amerindians
- Indien·nes
- Autochtone·s
- Amérindien·nes
- Indigène·s
- Inuit·s
- Metis
- Métis
- Beothuks
- Beothucks
- Panis