Help:Formatting guidelines

Nomenclature conventions

• Use AAC conventions for antimicrobial names and abbreviations
• Use CDC EID conventions for species naming and italicization
• Appropriate taxonomy of microorganisms
  • Use ICTV conventions for naming viruses
  • Use LPSN database for naming bacteria

Creating a new page

• In general, pages should start as either a syndrome (with a focus on the differential and workup) or a specific organism or disease
• For specific diseases, start with the organism species name as the page title
  • If there are multiple diseases that it causes, each of which has a different pathogenesis or management, then they should be split off into separate pages
  • e.g. TB starts as M. tuberclosis, which links to separate pages for pulmonary TB, non-pulmonary TB, disseminated/miliary TB, DILI, etc.

Page layout

• Background
  • Microbiology
  • History
  • Life Cycle
  • Epidemiology
  • Pathophysiology
• Clinical Manifestations
  • Prognosis and Complications
• Differential Diagnosis
• Investigations
• Diagnosis
• Management
• Further Reading

Citations

• This wiki uses the semantic citation framework
• The process is as follows:
  1. Go to Find citable metadata (link is on the front page). Search by DOI (or other), and then click "Create". Copy the citation key from the newly-created reference (e.g. "findlater3847").
  2. In your article, find the place that you wish to insert the reference. The reference can be inserted using a CiteRef and the copied citation key (e.g. "[[CiteRef::findlater3847]]").