Style Guide

We at Ray Gun Revival have created a style guide to aid our writers in complying with our format, which gives you a better chance of avoiding having your submission zapped into oblivion. This guide follows rules outlined in the Chicago Manual of Style. Clarification as well as a few exceptions and style preferences are listed below, and a section listing a few SF terms.

Please note this style guide is a work in progress and additions or further explanations made be made as we go along.

Clarifications and Style Preferences:

• 'all right' not 'alright'
• 'okay' not 'OK'
• serial comma: a, b, and c (CMOS 6.19)
• no semicolons in dialogue
• one space between sentences (CMOS 6.11)
• the 'by' in byline not capitalized and on same line as author's name: by Johne Cook
• italics for emphasis, not ALL CAPS or underlining
• three-space ellipse, not Word's one-space ellipse, and without spaces between the periods

Scientific and SF Terminology:

• 3D
• sci-fi
• A.I., A.I.s
• G-force, Gs, three-Gs