9. House Style

  • Manuscript must be written in ‘British English’. Taking feedback from your colleagues makes the manuscript writing more productive, versatile and simple for the readers.
  • Sentences should be properly structured instead of giving brackets within a sentence. For example, the study participants (women of age group 25-30 years) were approached for the interviews. The correct way is ‘The study participants included women of age group 25-30 years. They were approached for interviews.’
  • Present decimal figures up to 2 decimals only. e.g. 0.05 is correct instead of 0.054.
  • Use the full form of an abbreviation initially in the text before using the abbreviated form.
  • Avoid capitalisation except for proper nouns and where it is grammatically required.
  • Do not start a sentence with a number.