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The style of presenting information affects how comprehensible and usable it is. Open Development Initiative recommends adherence to the following two well-established systems for editorial style and referencing:
For general editorial style guidelines, punctuation, spelling and definitions:
For referencing research:
Specific departures developed for ODI from AP have been documented in an in-house style guide that builds on AP and includes a detailed list of Cambodian place names in English:
Although your organization may choose to establish its own specific guidelines for editorial style, we require that these be based on AP, be well documented, and in general the following principles should apply:
The OD country instance is pre-installed with the tools necessary to gather, edit, geo-tag and publish news summaries according to established editorial standards and best practices.
Please see News collection and curation.