E–H


e-book, not ebook.

e-mail, not email.

Ellipses. Avoid. They tend to look overly casual and sloppy.

eurozone, not Eurozone.

Exclamation points. These can add emphasis or make content welcoming, but are easily overused. Avoid including them in already-prominent places like headlines, subheads, and calls to action (e.g., buttons or call-out boxes).

Foreign words. Italicize, unless the word is well known to readers or it appears in the dictionary.

forward, not forwards.

Headlines. Use title case for all page names and article titles. For example, an article title would be capitalized as:

Development and Underdevelopment in Postwar Europe

Use sentence case for subheads within a page or article:

Political dimensions of development

Hyphens. Hyphenate compound modifiers before a noun (“up-to-date research”). Keep open after the noun (“the research is up to date”). Don’t hyphenate when the first element is an adverb that ends in “ly.”