Help:Book reviews
from the Antique Jewelry University
Book reviews can be written following a few standard forms to establish uniformity in the reviews. The most important one being Form:Book. Simply fill in the title of the book name and it will create the form for you to fill out. You can also upload an image of the book cover there.
The standard format for the author's name is "Lastname, Firstname", so if a book is written by Jane Doe, the correct form is "Doe, Jane".
When a book is written by multiple authors you can separate them by an ampersand "&". Example: a book is written by John Doe and Jane Smith; you simply fill in "Doe, Joe & Smith, Jane".
You can use the tick boxes to indicate genres and style tags. This makes it easier to search for books of specific interest later on.
When you have saved your work, you can make adjustments easy by pressing the "edit with form" tab above your review.
You will notice that if an author does not have a page associated with him/her on the AJU, the name(s) appear in red. If you click on the name, you will be directed to another form where you can enter data on the author. You can also do this for the publisher of the book. We prefer to give detailed information on the publisher as that makes it easier to contact them. For instance if we would like permission to use images from their books etc..
If you don't want to write a full review on a book, but rather a biography on an author, you can use the standard form named Form:Author. Simply type in the name of the author (Lastname, Firstname format) and a form will be created for you on the fly.
For contact details of a publisher, the form Form:Publisher can be used. Here again you simply fill out the name of the publisher and you will be directed to form that is easy to work with.