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Excision Editing Tip of the Day!

The "p" in "p values" can be either capitalized or lowercase.

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Excision Editing Tip of the Day!

Slang and colloquial expressions are typically avoided in scientific writing as you are attempting to maintain a professional and formal tone.

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Excision Editing Tip of the Day!

Do not italicize full gene names.

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Excision Editing Tip of the Day!

Slang and colloquial expressions are typically avoided in scientific writing as you are attempting to maintain a professional and formal tone.

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Excision Editing Tip of the Day!

Do not italicize full gene names.

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Excision Editing Tip of the Day!

Generally, the 'p' in 'p value' can be lower or upper case and italicized or not. Just be consistent!

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Excision Editing Tip of the Day!

The SI unit for time is second(s) (abbrev. s), but it is perfectly acceptable to use minute (min), hour (h), day (d), week (wk), month (mo), or year (y).

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There are several non-SI units that are acceptable in a document that requires SI units. For instance, the SI unit for temperature is the kelvin, but the Celsius scale is more commonly used.

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Excision Editing Tip of the Day!

The first sentence of a figure caption should essentially be the figure title. It should tell the reader the main point or take-home message of the figure.

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Excision Editing Tip of the Day!

Fractions should not be used with SI units (e.g., 37.5 kg NOT 37 1/2 kg).

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Excision Editing Tip of the Day!

It is typically frowned upon to start a paragraph with 'Figure X shows...' or 'Table X shows...' A paragraph should start by establishing what will be discussed in that paragraph.

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Excision Editing Tip of the Day!

'You' is generally avoided in scientific writing. Manuscripts generally refrain from addressing the reader directly.

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@BlackWidowJola That's true and that is where the confusion comes in! Southern was the name of the person who invented the technique and the other names played off this technique.

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Excision Editing Tip of the Day!

The 'w' in western blotting is not capitalized (except if you begin a sentence with it).

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Excision Editing Tip of the Day!

In-text citations can be in alphabetical or chronological order, just be consistent (this is of course for citations that are author-year format).

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Excision Editing Tip of the Day!

There should be no space on either side of an en dash when used to represent a range (e.g., 30–40% and not 30 – 40%).

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Excision Editing Tip of the Day!

Place a single space between a number and its unit.

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Excision Editing Tip of the Day!

A range of percentages can be represented as 50–60% or 50%–60%, just make sure you are consistent (also use the en dash in between the numbers).

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Excision Editing Tip of the Day!

There is no right way to cite figures and tables in a manuscript (e.g., Fig 1, Figure 1, Fig. 1 etc are all acceptable). Just be consistent!

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