Each piece of content on the CERN website should be tagged with up to five relevant tags.

Tags should be

• Relevant to the piece of content
• Lower case, except for acronyms (many experiments are therefore uppercase) and surnames
• Do not use Christian names, only surnames, capitalised

Correct

ASACUSA, antimatter, Smith, engineering, positron

Incorrect

asacusa, Antimatter, James Smith, engineers, positrons

Use the Taxonomy Manager module on the CERN website to sort out the tags.

An unstable subatomic particle of the lepton class, with a charge of -1 and a mass roughly 3500 times that of the electron.

Singular or plural? See collective nouns.

use e-health for preference

Lower case. Not "Terabyte" or, worse, "TeraByte"

A unit of information equal to one million million (10¹²) or, strictly, 2⁴⁰ bytes.

There are an estimated one million terabytes of online information, and this amount is growing with every new web page that is posted.

TeV Energy Superconducting Linear Accelerator

Acronym doesn’t need spelling out for the CERN Courier

Use 2pm, 3.30am (closed up) in a web context

Use 2 p.m. and 3.30 a.m. in official documents

Note: noon is 12pm, midnight is 12am. It may be clearer to say "noon" or "midnight"

Note: To configure the correct date format on a Drupal site, go to admin/config/regional/date-time/formats/40/edit. 

The PHP code you need to add in the Format string box is "j M Y, g.ia"

Can be confusing. Your best bet is to use this time zone converter on the "Use a chosen date/time" setting to double-check exact times. 

one word, no hyphen

In web texts, do not use titles such as Mr, Miss, Dr or Professor.

In other CERN documents, do use Professor (not Prof), Dr, Mr or Ms (not Mrs or Miss) as applicable.

Job titles

Use only one job title for each person. Do not capitalise job titles, unless it is an important government position: Barack Obama, President of the US.

The single exception is CERN Director-General.

"This is a fantastic result for CERN," says ATLAS spokesperson Albert Einstein.

imperial/US

use hyphen

use hyphen

no hyphen

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