- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers This guideline is a part of the English Wikipedia's Manual of. For further information see Wikipedia:Manual of Style § Non-breaking spaces and Wikipedia:Line-break handling. Chronological items Statements likely to become outdated. In spelling out numbers, components from 21 to 99 are hyphenated; larger ones are not (fifty-six.
- Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/Archive 72 This is an archive of past discussions. Both the MLA style guide (in section 3.5.5 of the 6th edition) and the Chicago style guide (in section 9.36 of the online edition) recommend this style. Awadewit | talk 21:38, 7 July 2007. Please note that the only changes I have proposed are related to the writing out of centuries discussed here. Can we keep the discussion focused on one thing at a time? It will be much easier, I.
- These resources follow the sixteenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style, which was issued in September 2010. Welcome to the Purdue OWL. Purdue OWL; Writing Lab; OWL News; Engagement; Research; Contact; Site Map. For two to three authors, write out all names. The Purdue OWL.
When you write a number that will appear in print or online, do you use figures, or spell it out? If you want to follow an authoritative source to produce. The Chicago Manual of Style, devotes 18 pages to the topic, while The AP Stylebook, the authority of record for newspapers. 5 Responses to “How to Style Numbers. These resources follow the sixteenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style, which was issued in September 2010. Welcome to the Purdue OWL. Purdue OWL; Writing Lab; OWL News; Engagement; Research; Contact; Site Map. a superscript number corresponding to a note with the bibliographic information for that source should be placed in the text following the end of the sentence or clause in which the source is referenced. . Spell Out or Use Numerals? (Number Style 101). letter, or a group of any of these, expressing a number.' The Chicago Manual of Style differentiates numerals from words as well. Basic Number Rules (for Nontechnical Copy) AP (p. 203): Spell out whole numbers up to (and including) nine (e.g., zero, one, 10, 96, 104). I think and believe that writing numbers or numerals should be guided only by logic and reasonableness, not by all those rules.
The Chicago Manual of Style (abbreviated in writing as CMS or CMOS [the version used on its website], or, by some writers as Chicago). published in 1969. Its first printing of 20,000 copies sold out before it was printed. [5] In 1982, with the publication of the thirteenth edition. University of Chicago (2010). The Chicago Manual of Style (sixteenth ed.).
Numbers. Q. I am editing some reports for my college. I had some good times in the ’6. What. do we call them? A. It is lucky that the ’2. In writing, “the ’0.
I seem to recall that people writing about the first decade of the. Fewer writers speak of the “teens,”. Chicago doesn’t favor.
In any case, one can always use numerals: 2. That said, I wonder if and when something better will be dreamed up and successfully adopted. Q. I’m muddling through a budget document, and I cannot remember (i.
When written out at the beginning of a sentence, it seems to me that the plural works better, since. Seven thousand dollars are needed for . . .). When presented as $7,0. Ordinarily, I would dodge the whole issue by using the active rather than the passive voice, but local custom is to place. I think that’s so our readers won’t have to.
I’ve just moved, and I haven’t yet located my CMOS (I should have marked that box in neon orange); can you help? A. It’s best to use the singular.
For an example, see CMOS 9. Q. If numbers must be written out by using words, are commas added in the same places as they would be used for digits? Example. 2. 3,5. 04,0. Thanks! A. No commas should be used when numbers are written out. The longer the number, the more awkward it may seem, but commas would make the number look like a series of smaller numbers. Q. Dear style gurus, the rule is to always use the numeral with “percent,” as in.
Our question concerns “zero. I say it should be spelled out, because your numeral rule applies to “numbers. ONE through one hundred.” My co- worker says, nope, you’ve got to use 0. Who’s. right? What’s the rule? A. Our rule is that all percentages and decimal fractions are set in numerals, in humanistic as well as scientific copy. The. only exception is for the beginning of a sentence. Zero percent of American- born participants in a recent poll could remember where they were—not to mention.
Theodore Roosevelt was charging up San Juan Hill. The ideal income tax, some people say, would be 0 percent of net income. The sixteenth edition of CMOS makes this clear: Chicago’s general rule is to spell out zero through one hundred. See paragraph 9. 2. Q. In prose, when writing percentages, which is correct: 1.
A. Chicago prefers the use of numerals for all numbers used as part of percentages, but use the word “percent”. Q. In the admittedly rare circumstances when you want to write out the name of a large number, are there any agreed- upon guidelines. Is it “six hundred seventy- two”.
I was taught the former in grade school; a colleague. I should note that said colleague is Canadian; is this perhaps a question of American. British usage? All consulted manuals are, inexplicably, silent on the matter. A. See paragraph 9. The Chicago Manual of Style. Some writers prefer using and, but Chicago’s preference is to omit it. Q. A quandary: I’m seeing September 1.
New Yorker magazine, where editing is usually superb, but somewhat antiquated. The New York Times refers to the date as Sept.
Please give me a rundown of your recommendations for this particular date, including. September 1. 1 tragedy?). Or is it still too soon to have a set standard?
Thanks. I’m. probably the 9. A. In written text, Chicago’s rule is to write a cardinal rather than an ordinal, even though the number. September 1. 1the September 1. September 1. 1, 2. When a day alone is mentioned, it is usually in the form of an ordinal but spelled out: September 1. United States. The tenth will therefore always be important, even.
As for an abbreviated form for September 1. CMOS 1. 6, paragraph 9. Q. You’ve stumped me. I teach a copyediting class at Emerson College, where I’ve. CMOS for years as a required text. This term, I gave my class a quiz on using numbers in which one of the questions was a simple.
True or False about spelling whole numbers one through ninety- nine. Some students got it wrong because, they insisted, their. Sure enough, several students have one version of 8.
Since. everyone is using the fourteenth edition, we are very curious—not to say confounded. What’s. up with that quirky 8. Are there any other differences I should know about? I’d appreciate any insights. I have already ordered the book for next semester.
Thanks! A. Ah, yes, the infamous 8. CMOS. Earlier printings of the fourteenth edition applied sound logic. Look at the two- part rule: (1) the numbers one through ninety- nine.
It would be redundant to write in the first part that one through one hundred should be spelled. Logical as this may have been, the wording confused many of us. So we changed the first part of the rule to make it clearer. The rule now confuses (almost) no one, even though it is a bit redundant. In the fifteenth edition, we retained the clarity of later printings of the fourteenth. For the sixteenth, we’ve. CMOS 1. 6, paragraph 9.
Q. Telephone numbers . . . CMOS prefer? (8. 00) 5. What if the country code is required? A. We prefer hyphens or hyphens and parentheses, as follows (though you may choose to leave out “1- ”—the. United States and Canada). But unless you are constrained by, for example, an Internet form, it’s okay to use periods or slashes.
Any hyphens, parentheses, spaces, periods, etc. Where these aids are is more important than what they are; one does not, for example, dial (or more likely press) a parenthesis or a hyphen.
For international numbers, include the country code preceded by a plus (which indicates that additional numbers, depending. For example, a French number looks like this—. France, “1”. designates the Île- de- France region (which includes Paris), and the rest is the usual eight paired digits. French telephone numbers. From the United States, the plus sign signals the 0. Q. When talking about “the turn of the century” (from 1.
It seems that since the years 1. Please advise. A. There is no general agreement about what a phrase like “turn of the nineteenth century”. It does seem to suggest the “turn of the nineteenth century into the twentieth”—i. But it’s probably best to stick to the more. Theodore. Roosevelt’s charge up San Juan Hill.