I'm creating this style guide to help Zen Habits guest writers -- actually to save me time in editing, because there are certain style changes that I have to do repeatedly and I'd rather avoid that if possible.

If your guest post doesn't conform to this style guide, I may refer you to this guide and ask you to revise. It's possible that I might not publish your guest post if you can't get it to conform to this guide. I hope you'll understand!

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Introduction

Credits

Single space after periods.

Elipses.

Spelling.

Lists.

ALL CAPS. Don't do it. Using all capital letters to emphasize words or phrases is, in effect, screaming at the reader. I prefer not to have posts on ZH scream at the reader -- it's not the tone I'm trying to establish. If you must, use italics to emphasize (the <em> tag)

Excessive bolds and italics.

Images.

Categories and tags.

Excessive plugging and advertising.

Sponsored posts.