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Editorial style guide: T

Editorial guidance for terms beginning with 'T'. Use the style guide to help make your content clear, accessible, and consistent with the rest of the website.

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Teams

Capitalise the name of the team, not the word ‘team’ itself, for example ‘Senior Management team’.

Telephone numbers

See Phone numbers.

That or which

'That' defines and 'which' gives extra information, often in a clause with commas around it ('This is the study that Miranda managed'; 'This study, which Miranda managed, has suggested a link between drinking and heart attacks').

Third class degree

Should be lower case with no hyphens, so ‘third class degree’ - as UCAS does it.

Tier 4 visa

Capitalise 'T', lower case and numerical '4' with no hyphens.

Times

Writing times for UK audiences

If you're writing a page aimed at an audience in the UK, use the 12-hour clock followed by 'am' or 'pm' in lower case. You should write times without spaces, using a full stop to separate the minutes and hours.

For example:

  • '9.30am'; or
  • '12pm (midday)'

We add 'midday' after 12pm to distinguish between that and midnight.

Writing times for international audiences

If you're writing a page aimed at an international audience, you'll need to consider your audience's time zone. Use the 24-hour clock with a colon to separate the minutes and hours in these instances.

For example:

  • 'You can visit our stand at the International Fair at the University of Nevada from 13:30 PST'.

Writing times for online events

When writing about an event that people can access online across the world, use a colon to separate the minutes and hours and add GMT (or GMT+1 if you mean BST) after the time. Use local time for events hosted in a specific country.

For example:

  • 'The live Q&A session will be hosted via Google Hangouts at 14:30 GMT'.

Also see Dates.

Title IV Loan

Title case with no hyphens.

Title case

See Capitalisation.

Title of web pages

Use sentence case, for example:

  • www.bath.ac.uk
  • www.wikipedia.com

Titles in print

Book and journal titles should be italicised to meet Harvard referencing standards.

Put article titles in roman (not italics) with single inverted commas and use caps and italics where appropriate, for example:

  • The Book of Daniel by E L Doctorow
  • 'The Problem of the Italian South'; History Today, 1999
  • The Guardian

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