Funding Agencies for Large Colliders

Future Circular Collider (the FCC study)

Free-electron laser

Spell out in first use then use acronym for the CERN Courier. Use "an FEL", not "a FEL"

Preferable to "Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory" or "FNAL".

Include a link to their homepage.

A new experiment at Fermilab in the US could change our ideas about fundamenal particles.

For things you can count off one by one, use fewer; for quantities you can only measure, not count, use less.

There were fewer cars on the roads in the 50s.

Fewer people attended the gig than were expected.  

John ate fewer apples than Jane.

​I drink less water than you.

There is less sugar in the scones than in the doughnuts.

use hyphen

Lower case. The informal name for CERN's Fire and Rescue Service

use italics

Foreign words should be in italics. Where a word has passed into common English usage, use roman; for words that are not included in our guide, refer to the OED. So Schadenfreude is in roman, because that’s the way it is in the dictionary, while Schaden or Freude (should you ever need to use them) are in italics.

mathematical

Don't use them. Use decimals instead: 0.25 not 1/4

For guidelines on writing in French – for CERN websites and print documents alike – refer to the translation department's "Guide de Typographie".

Full-time equivalent

Preferable to "elementary particle". There is nothing elementary about the complex interactions of subatomic particles.