Style guide and help

The style guide at radiopaedia.org is a document that aims to set out guidelines to help authors write content in a uniform way such that there is cohesiveness across the whole site.

• general overview of Radiopaedia.org
  • what Radiopaedia.org IS 
  • what Radiopaedia.org is NOT
• get involved !
• what we are working on
• collaborative projects
• copyright issues
• browsers supported
  • internet explorer 6 issues

Basic concepts

• structure of Radiopaedia : articles vs cases
• linking between cases and articles
• tags

Articles

Articles are the essence of Radiopaedia.org.  This is where we link together our collective knowledge to form a meaningful collaboration.

• how to create an article : watch YouTube tutorial
• anatomy of an article
• article structure
  • standard medium to long article structure
  • articles on conditions that affect multiple systems
  • short article structure
  • interventional procedure article structure
  • curriculum article structure
• contributing a case to illustrate an article
  • adding images to an article
• merging duplicate articles
• see also
• eponymous syndromes
• references
• synonyms : watch YouTube tutorial
• stub
• numbers and operators
• a note on figures / percentages
• non-english articles

Cases

Good cases are vital for Radiopaedia.org.  All articles need good images from great cases.  But, cases are so much more than just a simple image to demonstrate a single point.  They allow you to summarise patient presentation, symptomatology, image findings and then link that back to articles that are relevant.

• why upload cases to Radiopaedia.org
• how to upload a case : watch YouTube screencast 
• anatomy of the perfect case
• patient confidentiality
• text
  • patient's presenting symptoms
  • case title
  • case description
  • captions
  • image / series description
• quiz mode
• images / series
  • images
  • stacks
  • image preparation
• attributes and selection tools
  • flagged images
  • key image

Style

• spelling
• capitalisation
• use of bold and italic
• bulleted and numbered lists
• non-english case description

Useful resources / programs

• citation generator : a webpage that will generate a citation for use in radiopaedia (formatted correctly)
• radiopaedia chrome extension : an extension for Google Chrome that helps with citation creation
• keep up to date with rss : there are a number of RSS feeds that you can subscribe to that will keep you up to date with any changes to articles/edits
• public domain / Creative Commons / GPL etc... image resources