If the result is awkward, as it often is with a year, the recommendation is to reword: The year 1980 was indeed a good one. So can it be 10th century or tenth century, as in "Years, decades, and centuries"? An invented example: "In December of 1985 there was a further development: Jones wrote to Smith, saying..." Why is that IMO completely reasonable format conceded "incorrect" by the MoS?

But when discussing binary numbers as a concept—as in your example—you can refer to zeros and ones as the basis of the system. Contact Us.

I'm late in joining this discussion, but I strongly prefer to see centuries written in numbers (no strong views on pre-10th centuries!). The E-mail message field is required. punctuation and spelling and, secondly, a guide to making your work readable, structured and well-paced. Should hundred be repeated in spelled-out number ranges such as “one to three hundred” (meaning 100 to 300)? Bottom line: go with twenty-first century unless there is some reason not to–for example, contrary guidelines in a style manual you are required to follow. RE: how to write "the twenty-first century" in AP style? A. You’re correct about Chicago’s style for inclusive dates when a writer chooses to abbreviate them, but CMOS is also fine with spelling them out. Incorrect: "December, 1945" and "December of 1945", I try to focus on seasonal references when those seasonal references are. For example, “Information is represented in bits as 0s and 1s.” Is that correct? A current campaign being mounted by an editor with a very strong POV about "Hemisphere Bias" needs in my opinion to be countered. One of the reasons that I mentioned these other style guides in the first place is because they define professional writing. Some features of WorldCat will not be available.

Copyright 2020 Leaf Group Ltd. / Leaf Group Education, How to Cite Multiple Sources in One Sentence, How to Use Commas in Associated Press Style, How to Cite More Than Six Authors in Text, Correct Grammar Uses for Jr., Sr., I & II, Wavebreakmedia Ltd/Wavebreak Media/Getty Images, Purdue University Online Writing Lab: Chicago Manual of Style, UCLA Graduate Writing Center: Getting Help With Citation Style. Generally when the century name appears in a table, navigation box, info box or the like (such as {{Centurybox}} featured to the right), you'd not want it spelt out. Certainly. Chicago's "alternative rule" is the same as that used by AP style: Spell out all numbers up to and including nine, and use numerals for the rest. If I substitute well-established NGS, FAA and/or FCC coordinates for the erroneous ones, will my edits only be reverted by a robot? A. The E-mail Address(es) field is required. It contains firstly a detailed breakdown of both the rules of grammar, punctuation and spelling and, secondly, a guide to making your work readable, structured and well-paced. -- User:Docu, This FAQ does not say that Google supports using {{coord}} in templates. The latter has a notorious parallax problem with high-rise structures due to not looking straight down on these structures. For all its easy access and convenience, Google Earth and its cousins seem to have brought with them a tendency for overdependence. She’s number 1 in my book. "MLA or Chicago is. Whatever it's worth, there seems to be some misunderstanding by the author of http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/geoweb_faq.html as Wikipedia hasn't really depreciated the other templates. Don't have an account? She’s number one in my book. The manual provides rules for using specific types of punctuation and grammar. Andy Mabbett 14:46, 5 July 2007 (UTC), It looks like the Wikipedia Signpost got it somehow wrong as Google doesn't claim to support {{coord}} within templates. That is why I used those. Thanks! Williams College Libraries: Chicago Manual of Style -- Author-Date System. For instance, how can there be serious objection (on MOS grounds anyway) to "spring 1917" or even "the spring of 1917" in the context of historical events related to the the Western Front in WWI France? ... underlining, and separators. I try not to discriminate between seasonal references for either hemisphere. 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. -- User:Docu, Once again: are people now ready to begin deprecating and replacing the old coor * family of templates in favour of {{coord}} ? Spelling out is usually reserved for the hour, half hour, and quarter hour.

(edit) No - I just Googled it - "MLA would have you write 'twentieth century'." So write “fifteen hundred” or “1,500,” depending on context. The subject field is required. In these cases, {{coord}} just adds a lot of overhead and formatting problems, but it's unlikely that it's being parsed by anyone. Q. Numerous and frequently-updated resource results are available from this WorldCat.org search. 11 21st Century Charter at Gary jobs in Chicago, IL. Should I happen to find such a usage in a southern-hemisphere context I would also call it into question in the same manner. Once you add a decimal, even if it’s a zero, it becomes plural: 1.0 miles. -- User:Docu, Following the lenghty discussion above, please see a proposal for a section to be added to MoS at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Geographical coordinates#Standardize names for coordinate variables in template namespace. When referring to decimals from zero to one, are they singular or plural? Documentary note is used largely in the humanities and arts, while author-date is used in the sciences and social sciences. He is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University and conducts research on language and cognition but also writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time, and is the author of many books, including The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works.Melvyn Bragg is a broadcaster, writer and novelist.

But the hybrid form “one thousand five hundred” does not. [Katherine Lapworth] -- "Do you want to write more effectively, correctly and in a manner which is appropriate for this brave new world of text speak and blogging? All of those stylings are widely accepted. Il n'existe actuellement aucun avis sur les avantages de cette entreprise. Can you inform me how you would recommend writing out “10:05 a.m.” if an author is very set on using words rather than numerals? Which of the following is correct or preferred? A.

About The Chicago Manual of Style Q. PamD 10:31, 12 July 2007 (UTC), Why is this? For instance: five, seven, 14, 16,000, 17,891. Clearly the global or generic implications of this issue are far-reaching, when the question of automated reference to databases is brought in (well beyond the scope of my original query). When listing more than two words, phrases or clauses, a comma is placed after the second to last item in the list. If the same source is cited multiple times in a row, then each source past the first uses "Ibid." I’m working on a very important, time-sensitive document, and everything has to be correct according to CMOS.

I’ve fruitlessly searched CMOS for the proper way to indicate the total time of a recording—for example, thirty-five minutes and thirty-three seconds. Author-date style also includes a reference page after the last page of a paper.

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Newspaper headline writers may also exercise freedom when writing the century: New Year Rings in 21st Century. Perhaps what I have to say will be relevant to the ongoing discussion & reevaluation.

Why, in many book titles that include ranges of years, is Chicago style for inclusive numbers not followed? According to CMOS 9.4,“The whole numbers one through one hundred followed by hundred, thousand, or hundred thousand are usually spelled out.” The spelled-out form “fifteen hundred” qualifies.

While I can see this being a problem if reference was to the whole Earth as opposed to a particular country or region - if the context is clearly localised, and the "seasonal reference" has some relevance then what is the point of this rule? US Marshall, instead of U.S. Marshall, When abbreviating a name using initials, periods are used, and the initials are separated by a space: H. L. Mencken W. A. Mozart C. G. Jung, PhD, An exception to this rule occurs when initials are used alone in place of a name: FDR. As you see below, the text I read this in uses "15th" on the cover, but I would say that in a paper, and especially if you want to be more "proper," twentieth should be spelled out. I think it's most inappropriate to be forcing the spelling out of two-digit centuries. Each of these uses a cardinal rather than an ordinal numeral for the day, whether the year is expressed or not (i.e., July 24 or 24 July, not July 24th or 24th July).

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