Barrick Lab Style Guide
Citations
- Use 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 CAS or 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.
This topic: Lab
> WebHome >
ProtocolList > ProtocolsStyleGuide
Topic revision: r1 - 2012-01-04 - JeffreyBarrick