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(Same with Appendix, Figure, Table).
checkbox
Not check box'.
chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) materials
Lower case. Use upper case for the acronym.
Chemical formulae / CO2
GDS says use normal sized in CO2, so in public-facing documents use this.
In all other writing and all other chemical formulae, use the traditional form i.e. subscript numbers, NO2, H20, and so on.
In HTML use <sub><\sub> markdown.
childcare
Lower case.
childminder, childminding
One word.
Civil Service
Upper case.
civil servants
Lower case.
click
(UKHSA) Chart titles
For chart, graph, table, infographic titles in HTML, use #### to make it bold.
The entire title is H4 / bold, with no full stop at the end.
If the title has more than one sentence, consider making the second, 3rd etc sentences plain text below the bolded title.
Use a full stop rather than a colon after the figure e.g. Figure 1.
(UKHSA) Chart elements order
Ideally, graphs or other visual elements follow this order:
- Title
- Image + Caption
- Descriptive text
- Notes
checkbox
Not check box'.
chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) materials
Lower case. Use upper case for the acronym.
Chemical formulae / CO2
GDS says use normal sized in CO2, so in public-facing documents use this.
In all other writing and all other chemical formulae, use the traditional form i.e. subscript numbers, NO2, H20, and so on.
In HTML use <sub><\sub> markdown.
childcare
Lower case.
childminder, childminding
One word.
Civil Service
Upper case.
civil servants
Lower case.
click
Do not use 'click' when talking about user interfaces because not all users click. Use 'select'.
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Write email addresses in full, in lower case and as active links.
Do not include any other words in the link text.
ethnic minorities
(UKHSA) When an email address comes at the end of a sentence, omit the full stop. This is because if people copy an email address, a full stop at the end stops it from working.
(UKHSA) En dashes
When en dashes are used to create a parenthesis, put a gap either side of the dash.
For example, a man who has reported a history of injection drug use – but who also reports having sex with men – will be assigned to the ‘sex between men’ group, rather than the ‘other’ group.
ethnic minorities
When writing about ethnicity, When writing about ethnicity, refer to ethnic minority groups individually, rather than as a single group. Where it’s absolutely necessary to group people from different ethnic minority backgrounds, use ‘ethnic minorities’ or ‘people from ethnic minority backgrounds.’
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Use the correct symbol for the multiplication sign (×), not the letter x. To do this, on your keyboard press Alt and then, on the numeric keyboard 01250215.
Write out and hyphenate fractions: two-thirds, three-quarters.
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north-east, north-west
Lower case, hyphenated.
(UKHSA) Notes for tables and charts
Do not use superscript symbols such as *, dagger, section, yen, dollar and so on.
Use [note 1] [note 2] format with the notes given under the table or graphnote capped down.
Always in square brackets - https://gss.civilservice.gov.uk/policy-store/releasing-statistics-in-spreadsheets/#section-6
Below the figure or table, use Note 1: capitalised, without the square brackets, followed by a colon, and then the note text starting with a capital.
Numbers
Use ‘one’ unless you’re talking about a step, a point in a list or another situation where using the numeral makes more sense: ‘in point 1 of the design instructions’.
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Numbers of editions should be spelt out so second edition instead of 2nd edition. To declutter and cap down and avoid ambiguity, put this in brackets, as in the example above.
Year of publication:
If if a standard reference put the year of publication after the journal name towards the end. However, sometimes you get a set of references by the same author or organisation where the date is important for distinguishing between them:
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In these cases, leave the year at the start (immediately after the authors) and change the position of all the other years to immediately after the authors in order to be consistent.
References: Article number
E numbers in a reference indicate article number and should be written thus: volume 23, issue 15, article e0179572
Viewed on
If references end with (accessed on) or (viewed on) these go in round brackets with no colon between it and the date, so (viewed on 14 January 2020).
Linking to the reference section
If you wish individual citations to go to individual references, you may, but it’s permissible just to link them all to the References heading i.e. the same link for all of them.
If the references list is long, consider linking to each 10th reference i.e. create a reference for references 1, 10, 20, 30 and soon.
References: Article number
E numbers in a reference indicate article number and should be written thus: volume 23, issue 15, article e0179572
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Do not use login as a noun - say what the user actually needs to enter (like username, password, National Insurance number). You can use it as a noun if it’s part of a name such as GOV.UK One Login or NHS login.
(UKHSA) Sources
To indicate the sources of a graph, put them in the Captions field of the image.
For a table or infographics, put Sources underneath a table.
Write Source followed by a colon if there’s one, Sources: if more than one.
End with a full stop whether there are one or many sources.
south, the south of England
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Footnotes - do not use symbols. Do not use superscript symbols such as asterisk, dagger and so on. Use the format note [note 1], [note 2] and put these under 'Notes' in heading 4. See https://gss.civilservice.gov.uk/policy-store/releasing-statistics-in-spreadsheets/#section-6
In HTML, right align data columns by adding a colon to the right end of the series of dashes in the top row: |-------------:|
In text, when referring to Table 1, 2, 3 etc, use capitals because it's a proper noun (see Table 3).
If more than one, cap down - tables 3 and 4.
, dagger and so on. Use the format note [note 1], [note 2] and put these under 'Notes' in heading 4. See https://gss.civilservice.gov.uk/policy-store/releasing-statistics-in-spreadsheets/#section-6
In HTML, right align data columns by adding a colon to the right end of the series of dashes in the top row: |-------------:|
In text, when referring to Table 1, 2, 3 etc, use capitals because it's a proper noun (see Table 3).
If more than one, cap down - tables 3 and 4.
(Same with Chapter, Appendix, Figure but not section, which remains capped down).
Tables with multiple data
When more than one piece of data is in one cell in an HTML table, use <br> to put each datum on a new line.
Note: Remember to also apply a line break to the header columns and left hand columns if they also indicate more than one datum, for example ‘Number<br>(percentage)’.
(Same with Chapter, Appendix, Figure but not section, which remains capped down).
Punctuation in tables
Be aware of punctuation in tables.
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