{"id":127,"date":"2015-01-07T20:59:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T20:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/?p=127"},"modified":"2015-01-19T23:22:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T23:22:56","slug":"numbers-and-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/2015\/01\/07\/numbers-and-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers and Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. In keeping with Canadian Press (CP) Style, numbers one through nine are written out as words. Any numbers above nine are written as figures.<br \/>\n<em>Example: Priscilla completed five courses in her third semester, however she must complete 40 courses in order to graduate. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>2. There can be a combination of figures and words.<br \/>\n<em>Example: There are 40 students in a first-year marketing class; 32 are first-year students, three are second-year students and five students are in their third year.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>3. Always use the official name for products, regardless of style.<br \/>\n<em>Example: the TV show \u201cBig Bang Theory\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>4. Use commas when separating four-digit (or longer) numbers<br \/>\n<em>Example: The U of L has more than 7,500 students. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>5. Use words, or a combination thereof, to write large numbers<br \/>\n<em>Example: The total budget was $3.8 million&#8230; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>6. Spell out fractions below one.<br \/>\n<em>Example: Almost one-fourth of the students\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>7. Use the $ symbol when discussing money. If monetary value is less than a dollar, use cents. Be careful to avoid using both $ and dollars (AVOID \u2013 The pay is $10 dollars per hour).<br \/>\n<em>Example: Students pay on average $500 per course. Student print labs charge 10 cents per page. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>8. Only the following months are abbreviated:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jan., Feb., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov. and Dec.<\/li>\n<li>Do not abbreviate March, April, May, June and July<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>9. In writing time periods, write AD before the date and BC after<br \/>\n<em>Example: They studied material from AD 500. Their most recent findings are from 77 BC.<br \/>\nExcept write: 15th century AD<\/em><\/p>\n<p>10. Time: Use 3 p.m. NOT 3:00 p.m. Use 7:30 a.m., Use Noon, not 12 p.m. or 12 noon<\/p>\n<p>11. Anniversaries should not use superscript: 50th anniversary (despite what Microsoft Word insists)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. In keeping with Canadian Press (CP) Style, numbers one through nine are written out as words. Any numbers above nine are written as figures. Example: Priscilla completed five courses in her third semester, however she must complete 40 courses in order to graduate. 2. There can be a combination of figures and words. Example: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}