HTML Shortcuts

We use the Markdown plugin’s HTML shortcuts to make adding HTML tags to articles and comments easy. If your article is accepted for publication, adding these tags to your article yourself will save us work and ensure the rapid publication of your article. Of course, if coding HTML is your idea of a good time, you can use full HTML tags.

Here are the basics of Markdown formatting:

To create separate paragraphs, put a blank line between each paragraph in your text, e.g.,

All of this text will go in one paragraph. All of this text will go in one paragraph. All of this text will go in one paragraph. All of this text will go in one paragraph. All of this text will go in one paragraph.

All of this text will go in another paragraph. All of this text will go in another paragraph. All of this text will go in another paragraph. All of this text will go in another paragraph. All of this text will go in another paragraph.

To italicize, place an askterisk before and after the word or phrase you wish to be italicized, e.g.,

*I want to emphasize this point*.

To put text in boldface, place two askterisks before and after the text, e.g.,

**I really want to emphasize this point**.

All quotations of more than one sentence should use blockquotes. To add a blockquote to your article, simply place the character “>” before the blockquote, e.g.,

>This text will become a blockquote. This text will become a blockquote.

Blockquotes will look like this:

This is an example of blockquoted text. This is an example of blockquoted text. This is an example of blockquoted text. This is an example of blockquoted text.

To create a link, put the text where you would like the link to be placed in [square brackets] and the url in (parentheses) immediately after it. For example:

In [“Favor-factory shutdown”](http://www.townhall.com/columnists/
RobertDNovak/2006/11/20/ favor-factory_shutdown), Robert Novak writes …

This will come out as:

In “Favor-factory shutdown”, Robert Novak writes …

To create a bulleted list, place a dash and a space before each item in the list. Make sure there are no lines between list items. For example:

- List item one.
- List item two.
- List item three.

This will come out as:

All section titles in articles should use the <h2> tag, which marks a heading. To add this tag to your article, simply place two or more hyphens on the line directly below your section title, e.g.,

A Section Heading
——

This will come out as:

A Section Heading

Articles should use links and footnotes to reference sources. You can simply link to a source if it is a one-page document available for free in its entirety online. References to other sources should be footnoted. Please use Turabian style for footnotes. We use the Expression Engine footnotes plugin to create footnotes. To create the first footnote in your article, simply add {ref1} next to the place where you would like the footnote to be placed. Then at the end of your article, place the content of the footnote in the tags {fn1}{/fn1}. The second footnote should use the tags {ref2} and {fn2}{/fn2}, and so forth. For example:

John Doe says this{ref1}, and Mary White says that{ref2}.

At the end of the text, write:

{fn1}John Doe. *Book Title* (New York: Some Press, 1997), p. 62.{/fn1}
{fn2}Mary White. "Magazine Article Title," *Magazine Title*, 10 September 2003, 52.{/fn2}

Please note the *askterisks* around book and magazine titles, which will italicize them.