Style, punctuation tips for coordinators

• The calendar in the faculty-staff newspaper Inside Iowa State is a good guide in terms of how entries on the calendar should be written, arranged and punctuated.
• Don't put periods, commas or other punctuation at the end of the form fields. The calendar program automatically inserts commas between each of the fields. You can put punctuation within the fields -- just not at the end. Avoid ending entries with quotation marks. Otherwise, the entry will display a quote mark followed by a comma.
• Don't hit the return or enter key while filling in form fields. These keys can insert a control character in your entry. and the result is likely to be an incomplete line of type appearing in the calendar.
• Calendar style is to put quotation marks around speech and lecture titles and concert names. Books, movies, theatrical performances, operas, albums, and TV programs should be italicized. Here's how you italicize something on the Web: </i> Italicize This! </i>. If you forget the </i>, you'll italicize not only the rest of your entry, but every entry that follows yours on the calendars.
• Don't use asterisks (*), pound signs (#), bullets or other special characters in data entry. They may not translate well onto the web. If you must use an ampersand (&), write it as &amp;.