Style guide

All the content on DefElement aims to conform to this style guide. This keeps it clear and consistent.

We use standard British spelling in the content on DefElement.

In general, we follow the Chalkdust style guide (which follows the Guardian style guide with some additional guidance, mostly related to the style of equations). The remainder of this page lists style guidance not covered in the Chalkdust style guide.

DefElement

This website is called DefElement, with a capital D and capital E, with no space between Def and Element. More detail on referring the site itself can be found on the branding page.

Notation

The notation used on DefElement can be found in this list.

Reference cell

The cell \(R\) on which an element is defined should always be referred to as the reference cell and never the reference element to avoid confusion with the finite element.

References

References to papers, books, etc should follow the following style guidance:

• Author names should include the full first name, middle initial(s) followed by full stop(s), then surname. In .def files, they are written as Surname, First Name Initials (eg "Scroggs, Matthew W.")
• Paper titles should use sentence case (like this)
• Journal and Book Names Should Use Title Case (Like This)

Sobolev spaces

When written in text, the spaces H(div) and H(curl) should be written as text, and not in math-mode.