Spelling

English, not American:

• aetiology
• oestradiol
• anaemia
• haemorrhage
• practice (noun)
• practise (verb)
• Foetus and fetus are both acceptable in English: the LJPC uses fetus

Use s-spellings:

• minimise
• organisation
• capitalisation

Use English spellings for place names: Lyons, not Lyon; see Whitaker's Almanac or Times Gazeteer.

We allow minimum use of abbreviations because they're hard to read and often the same abbreviation means different things in different specialities and contexts.