Intro

This style guide is intended to provide information on formatting for each component of the website. For information on editing pages, please review the editing protocols that can be accessed on the front page.

Text Format

Main headings

• Heading 3

• Normal Font

• Size 12

All other text

• Normal Heading

• Arial Font

• Size 12

References

When citing source material on the website, use APA-style reference formats. Formatting guidelines can be found online here or in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6^thedition, available for purchase here.

Links to URLs

• View instructions on how to create a link to an external website here.

• Create links using descriptive text rather than the URL (e.g. “Personal Website” rather than “movies.netflix.home”).

Name/Birth date

• Provide full name (use main heading text format)

• Provide date including month, day and year for birth and death dates. When no death date is available, substitute “present”. (use other text format)

Primary Areas of Interest

• Use “other text” format, only capitalize first letter of the first word unless using a proper noun.

Selected Readings

• Provide an APA-style reference.

• If the reading is available online, then create a URL link using “(available online here)” following one space after the citation.

• When possible, create a link to the existing pages of all authors.

• Double-space after each entry on the list.

Selected Books

• Provide an APA-style reference.

• If the book is available online, then create a URL link using “(available online here)” following one space after the citation.

• When possible, create a link to the existing pages of all authors.

Video

• Embed video to the website when possible. If it is not possible to embed the video, then create a link to the host URL.

• Provide a description of the video directly above the embedded video.

• When possible, create a link to the existing page(s) of behavior analysts that are included in the video.

Voice Recordings

• Embed the voice recording.

• Provide a description of the voice recording.

Students

• List the students in reverse-chronological order (i.e. most recent to furthest removed).

• When possible, create a link to the existing page of the student.

Quotes 

"To several audiences before, I have suggested that Skinner could be characterized as a unique combination of the figures of Thomas A. Edison, Jesus Christ, and Bertrand Russell, and I stand by that characterization here, intending no disrespect for any of the four parties named."

                                                                                                    -Norman Guttman, American Psychologist, May 1977, 321-328.