Help:Bibliographic conventions

These are the bibliographic conventions used in Conan Wiki.

These are based on the conventions used by The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (edited by John Clute and John Grant; Orbit 1997) and The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1998) (Charles N. Brown & William G. Contento).

Title formats
Use "double quotes" for:
 * a vignette (under 4 pages, under 1,000 words)
 * a short story (4-20 pages, 1,000-7,499 words)
 * a novelette (21-45 pages, 7,500-17,499 words)
 * a poem
 * an episode of a TV series
 * an article
 * a short musical work or a part of a long work including individual tracks on a CD

Use italics for:
 * a novella (46-100 pages, 17,500-39,999 words)
 * a novel (over 100 pages, over 40,000 words)
 * a collection
 * an anthology
 * a magazine
 * a comic
 * a film or a DVD
 * a TV series
 * a book-length non-fiction work
 * a long musical work or a CD

Use bold for:
 * a book series