As a member of the Copy Editor Nitpicker Brigade (CENB) I should like to
remind people writing scientific papers to use the correct units. For
example:
15KW should be 15 kW (space after number, lower-case "k")
Units according to NIST are here:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html
Lower-case "k" here:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html
The tricky one is temperature. Degrees Kelvin work like any other unit,
with a space:
873 K
Degrees Celsius has no space, a degree sign, plus "C":
600°C
The one NIST standard I do not follow is to use spaces as the thousands
divider in numbers instead of commas; i.e.:
1 000 000 instead of 1,000,000
Google uses the SI (NIST) method.
- Jed
