Oral History Program Style Guide: Section 1: Format of Interview Transcript
- Font: 12 point, Times New Roman.
- One-inch margins on both sides.
- Left justified. No indentations for speakers.
- No curly quotes. Please turn off "smart quotes" in your word processing program.
- Page numbers, bottom center. No number on cover page or on preface page.
- Speakers' full names in all caps, followed by colon and two spaces
- Use the serial comma: x, y, and z. (See also Comma section.)
- Use brackets, not parentheses, for added material. (See Brackets and Ellipses section.)
- For changes in tape or disc:
- This is disc number three. (within the text)
- [END OF TRACK full track name.] – Transcribers, please note that the tracks are named correctly. Please include the full track name, Example: [END OF TRACK AAA_almara86_532.]
- [END OF INTERVIEW.] – At the end of an interview there will be an [END OF TRACK.] and an [END OF INTERVIEW.] in separate instances.
- For test tracks or blank tracks:
- [Track <insert full name of track> is blank.]
- [Track <insert full name of track> is a test track.]
