(r1) Barrick Lab :: Manuscript Style Guide

---+ 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 &lt;i&gt;Escherichia coli&lt;/i&gt;
   * 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.

Barrick Lab > ProtocolList > ProtocolsStyleGuide

Topic revision: r1 - 2012-01-04 - 17:01:53 - Main.JeffreyBarrick