Fiddly things to do when finishing a paper (and you're not using a sophisticated typesetting language)
- don't use leading zero on correlations, proportions or p-values (p = .051, not p = 0.051)
- use non-breaking spaces
- Use them around
=,<, etc. - And inside numbered/lettered things like "Experiment 1" or "Fig. 1"
- CTRL SHIFT SPACE in MS Word,
in HTML
- Use them around
- use an en-dash (–)
–- in ranges (10–20)
- when writing "UW–Madison" or "University of Wisconsin–Madison"
- use a minus sign (−) for negative numbers like −10
− - use a multiplication sign (×)
×for multiplication expressions, dimensions ("100 × 100 pixel image") and interactions ("a significant Age × Language interaction")
- verbs after either/or and neither/nor agree with noun closest to verb.
- Neither Kiki nor Nooper was happy with their treats.
- Neither Tristan nor his cats were happy.
- if an abbreviation is in a "collegiate" dictionary as its own entry, you can assume the reader knows the abbreviation and not redefine it in-text
- IQ, SES