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9. A zero is used before « decimal point except in coefli- cients of correlation. Pot crt 0.15 part + 8 oelfictent of 3 10. Roman numerals are seldom used; they are clumsy in appearance and less familiar to students, but they are con- ventional in certain designations. ‘Class TV reilroeds Segments IV aed V (biology) _ Ordinal numbers are usually spelled, though a few ‘eptions are customary. Bfteenth person Vilth cranial nerve nineteenth century 98th parallel third grade . 80th Congrem (footnotes only) f 14th peresatile 12. For plurals of numbers and abbreviations add s, no apostrophe. ‘ the 2s and Se the 1s the 1020s three A's Sums of money ‘The form $6 is preferable in text matter to $6.00, even when compared with an amount like $6.53. In tables, $6.00 is teed if other items in the same column or In a comparable column contain cents, ¢.g., $6.53, Other forms are: & $10 book 10 cents (10¢ of $0.10 in tables) Ages Ages of persons are usually expressed in the spelled form, except in statistical passages and tables. a child three yours old a three-year-old aged seventeen fo his forties 18 Ratios Use a colon or “to” for numerical ratios. For ratios made up of words, use either 2 slant bar or a hyphen. Symbolic ratios are usually written with a slant bar. a 10:1 chance or a 10 to A chance male/female ratio or mele-lemale ratio the a/b ratio Fractions Spell fractions only when they stand alone. Use hyphen even in the noun form. Use figures always for mixed numbers. one-half as meny ‘4Y, times ae many two-thirds of the students % inch Approximations (see also item 3 under “Numbers in general” ). Spell whole numbers if less than 100, and larger numbers if rounded to an even hundred, thousand, or million, as follows: about four hundred about 500,000 about 440 about Bfty-five million about forty-five hundred about 5,400,000 or 5.4 million about 4,550 about 4.5 gross about twelve thousand about seventy-alne about 12,500 about 554 VII. Bibliographical Reference: See sample articles for style. 1, Biblical References Names of the books of the Bible and versions of the Bible are spelled out. Chapter and verse are given in arabic numbers with a colon between them. The spellings of the Confraternity Version are to be used for the books that have been translated. For other books use the Douay-Challoner Version.