Brand Guide

These guidelines outline the general rules when using the Texas Stream Team brand assets. Use these best practices, templates and tools to incorporate the brand into your materials. The Meadows Center brand and logos are available on their Brand Guide webpage. Texas State University and Texas State University System logos and marks are available at the Office of University Marketing. 

If you have any questions or comments please contact Texas Stream Team at TxStreamTeam@txstate.edu.

Editorial Style Guide

• Texas Stream Team should always be written out in full and never shortened to Stream Team or TST.
• Always refer to Texas Stream Team volunteers and monitors as citizen scientists. (A citizen scientist is anyone who participates in Texas Stream Team who is not a water professional).
• The first reference of a Texas Stream Team training should always be written out in full. All references following should be shortened to an abbreviation name of the training. The training name is capitalized followed by the lower-cased training. Please follow this chart below:

• Full Training Name	Shortened
  Core Water Quality Citizen Scientist Training*	Core training
  Standard Core Water Quality Citizen Scientist Training	Standard Core training
  Probe Core Water Quality Citizen Scientist Training	Probe Core training
  E. coli Bacteria Water Quality Citizen Scientist Training	E. coli Bacteria training
  Advanced Water Quality Citizen Scientist Training	Advanced training
  Riparian Evaluation Citizen Scientist Training	Riparian Evaluation training
  Macroinvertebrate Bioassessment Citizen Scientist Training	Macroinvertebrate Bioassessment training

*Core should be used when referring to both Standard and Probe trainings

• When talking about the different Texas Stream Team kits, training packets, manuals, etc, use the shortened training name followed by the resource. The training name is capitalized followed by the lower-cased resource. Ex: Core kit, Core training packet, Core manual, etc.
• The first reference of Waterways Dataviewer should always be written out. All references following should be shortened to Dataviewer.
• Always capitalize the “T” when using our full name, The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment. The first mention of our name should read in the following, “The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University”. In all other instances, “the Meadows Center” (with a lowercase "t") will suffice and should be used as an abbreviation where needed..

Please visit Texas State University's editorial style guide for a complete list of editorial guidelines. 

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