Editorial style guide - N

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Numbers

Zero to nine are written as words and 10 onwards in figures, unless a sentence begins with a number over 10:

Sixty-five million years ago, Sheffield was home to dinosaurs.

Other exceptions are numbers that have technical significance or need to stand out for quick comprehension, such as: tables, statistics, money, times, ratios and academic grades.

Where a number from one to nine is part of a phrase or title that you didn't create, stick with the convention.

Key Stage 2

Write out the names of foreign currencies except in tables: yen, francs, dollars. No capital letters. If dollars are other than US, this needs to be stated: New Zealand dollars or NZ dollars.

For larger numbers, use the following formats:

2,000
£1 million
10,000
1 billion
100,000
1 million