Project:Manual of style

House conventions for prose, units, numbers and titles.

The manual of style governs how PeptidePedia Wiki articles are written and formatted. Consistency is not an aesthetic preference here: a reference work whose units and conventions vary between articles cannot be read comparatively.

Third person throughout article space. No first or second person: no "I", "we" or "you". No rhetorical questions, no exhortation, no address to the reader. Talk pages are signed discussion and first person is correct there.

Describe, do not instruct. "The label schedule escalates the dose at four-week intervals" is encyclopedic; "escalate every four weeks" is not.

British spelling, with the -ise ending (lyophilisation, randomised). International nonproprietary names are used as published and are never anglicised. Compound modifiers are hyphenated before a noun (dose-escalation schedule) and not after (the schedule escalates the dose).

SI units, with the non-SI unit in parentheses where a source uses it. A space between number and unit, except for the degree symbol and percent: 5 mg, 2 °C, 98.6%. Thousands separated by a comma. Decimals with a leading zero: 0.25 mg.

Give a range as 1.5–2 minutes with an en dash and no spaces. Give an uncertainty where the source gives one. Do not report more significant figures than the source does — the commonest numerical fault on the wiki is precision invented in conversion.

Article titles use the international nonproprietary name in lower case (semaglutide), not a trade name. Trade names appear in the lead and infobox, attributed to their holder. Research-chemical designations keep their published form with the hyphen (BPC-157, AOD-9604, TB-500).

The first sentence defines the subject and contains the article title in bold. The lead is two to four paragraphs, summarises the whole article, and introduces nothing that the body does not develop. Approval status is stated in the lead of every compound article.

Inline superscripts, numbered by first appearance, resolving to a formatted reference. Reused references get one entry with lettered back-links. Reference formatting follows Project:Sourcing guidelines.