Bullet Lists Format

Mediawiki provides simple symbols to create several different bullet list types. ICAR's standard for bullet lists is alphabetic lists are preferred but dotted bullets also may be used when appropriate. Multi-level lists are allowed.

While the wikitext markup for bullet lists allows for many variations, authors are encouraged to use only the features described here for bullet lists.

This page describes the symbols used for bullet lists when editing an article's source markup by clicking on the "Edit source" tab, upper right of each page. Alternatively, authors can use the "Edit" tab to edit in WYSIWYG mode. All these bullet lists can be created using the visual editor.

Alphabetic bullet list

Alphabetic bullet lists are created by beginning the bulleted text with a number sign (#). For example,

1. list item 1
2. list item 2
3. list item 3

was created with this markup,

# list item 1
# list item 2
# list item 3

Dotted bullet list

Dotted bullets use the asterisk (*) at the beginning of each bullet line.

• list item 1
• list item 2
• list item 3

was created with this markup,

* list item 1
* list item 2
* list item 3

Bullet sublist

Alphabetic sublist

1. List item A1
   1. sublist 1 item 1
   2. sublist 1 item 2
2. List item B1
   1. sublist 2 item 1
   2. sublist 2 item 2

was created with this markup,

# List item A1
## sublist 1 item 1
## sublist 1 item 2
# List item B1
## sublist 2 item 1
## sublist 2 item 2

Dotted sublist

• List item A1
  • sublist 1 item 1
    • sublist 1 item 1 sub-sublist 1
    • sublist 1 item 1 sub-sublist 1
  • sublist 1 item 2
• List item B1
  • sublist 2 item 1

was created with this markup,

* List item A1
** sublist 1 item 1
*** sublist 1 item 1 sub-sublist 1
*** sublist 1 item 1 sub-sublist 1
** sublist 1 item 2
* List item B1
** sublist 2 item 1