0 a document that gives a set of rules for writing and presenting text that is going to be published: --
Virtually all today's desktop publishing programs allow you to set up style sheets so that the characteristics of the typography can all be pre-defined.
The only trouble with style sheets as they stand is lack of browser support.
An editor will work with a style sheet on which she notes the correct spelling of characters’ names, preferred punctuation etc.
If the journal has its own style sheet, get it, and follow it.