Guidance for spelling of notation

Guidance for spelling of notation (for new elements)

Notations must be unique within a table regardless of capitalization. Even though an application (such as OSCAR/Surface) using these terms should not consider the capitalization of the notation, for human-readability, there should be consistent spelling. These rules should be followed:

• Abbreviations use upper-case letters, also in the case where several abbreviations are concatenated.
• Names that are recognized as English words are spelled in lower-case.
• Upper/lower-case spelling that is in common use or a community term is preserved.
• Country names or other geographical names are spelled in title case (first letter capitalized, all others small-caps)

Notes:

1. "Upper/lower-case spelling that is in common use or a community term is preserved" is important where common usage is contrary to the other rules, as with CryoNet.

Examples:

• GAW (not gaw), an accronym
• GAWcontributing (not gawContributing), an accronym concatenated with a word
• GAWABOS (not GAWabos), both are accronyms
• GCWCryoNet, GCW is an accronym, CryoNet a community term
• ARGORussia (not argoRussia)
• ARGOMEXCOUS (not argoMexCoUS), concatenation of accronyms
• TAOPirata (not taoPirata), accronym concatenated with geographical name