Recently, I have been edited to place a comma at the thousand mark in my
technical reports.? It was my understanding and my preference for nearly 20
years that the comma in 1000/1,000 was optional, and preferred absent in
technical writing.? What is the general feeling out there?
Also, I have
Just for entertainment value, here is a message I received a few weeks
ago from a major ecology journal at a major publisher (names removed, as
the matter was resolved). If it is the case that this kind of thing can
actually happen, something needs to change.
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Dear AUTHOR,
I trust you are
One reason for leaving out the comma is that it creates confusion in
international journals. An American could write one thousand twelve and a
half as 1,012.5, but in Europe the comma and period are reversed so it is
1.012,5. It is better to use just one separator for the decimals to minimise
If interested regarding your debate and information on the importance of
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program -
Hershey, A.E., A.R. Lima, G.J. Niemi, and R.R. Regal. 1998.
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Hi, Sarah,
The experience you report has greater value than that of
entertainment, because it raises some issues for further discussion.
1. The academic/scientific publishing process does not follow the familiar
rules of a for-profit business. Imaging walking into a bank to make a
The problem of finding available reviewers for ecological journals
during the field season, that Sarah Goslee reported, is similar to
the problem that NSF has in finding ad hoc reviewers for grant proposals.
I've heard from several NSF program managers over the years that
there are ecologists
It's probably a more responsible thing for the reviewers to do than to say
they will do the review and then not get around to it for 5 or 6 months,
as has happened to me several times. When I was editing a journal, there
were certain people who I stopped asking for reviews because I knew from
Having worked as an editor, I can say that the presence or absence of various
editorial items doesn't really matter, the important issue is consistency. So
for each journal or organization, some chief editor sometime in long forgotten
past probably chose a style, and ever since, the journal?or
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Dear list:
Does anybody know any information about the next edition of this meeting:
International Symposium on Inorganic Carbon Utilization by Aquatic
Photosynthetic Organisms
Thank you,
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Center for Environmental Changes
Academia Sinica
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