---+ Barrick Lab Style Guide ---++ Citations * Use [[http://www.mendeley.com/download-mendeley-desktop/][Mendeley]] to organize your citations and insert them into word processing documents. * If you aren't formatting for submission to a specific journal, use the __Nature Reviews Genetics__ style. * To add italics to species names in downloaded citations, add HTML italics tags around them. * e.g. Escherichia coli to <i>Escherichia coli</i> * You will generally need to manually correct the journal names from downloaded paper to their standard abbreviations. * e.g. _Journal of Bacteriology_ to _J. Bact._ * Find the standard abbreviation using [[http://cassi.cas.org][CAS]] or [[http://www.library.illinois.edu/biotech/j-abbrev.html][other resources]]. ---++ Figures and Graphs * Always include a legend for symbols within a figure, NOT just in the figure caption. * Unlike the defaults in Microsoft Excel: * Enclose the data frame of a graph in a full box. * Generally, do not include any grid lines on graphs. * Use 95% confidence intervals, rather than standard deviations for error bars.
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