Sentence Structure and Writing Style

Beginning a sentence. Avoid beginning a sentence with a symbol, numeric value or equation. 

Dangling modifiers and illogical construction—check that a modifier phrase or the pronoun it actually refers to the intended subject (see also Subject-verb agreement). 

Equations—equations typically appear as a separate line from the text and are numbered sequentially throughout the manuscript. Equations can then be referred to by number. 

Example The quenching rate constant can be calculated using the Stem-Volmer equation  

Spaces—there should be a space between a quantity and its units and between a quantity or word and subsequent parenthetical phrase. 

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