h, hr, hrs or hours? - min/mins or minute/minutes? (Sep/12/2008 )

Should I abbreviate hours and minutes in a microbiology paper? If so what abbreviation is right?

The instructions just say use standard SI units but I'm not about to start expressing all the times in seconds!

-MTO-

QUOTE (MTO @ Sep 12 2008, 12:54 PM)

I would use "h" and "min". For the plural see: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html

-gebirgsziege-

QUOTE (gebirgsziege @ Sep 12 2008, 01:10 PM)

I would use "h" and "min". For the plural see: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html

Thanks. That what I thought.

Have bookmarked the useful link!

-MTO-

Another bookmarkable. ..

http://www.bipm.org/en/si/

see this page for accepted non-SIs

http://www.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/chapter4/table6.html

-Bungalow Boy-

Hmmm... Milliliter (ml) is not acceptable unit...? Nor cc? Even liter (L) is just barely acceptable...

-HomeBrew-

But every journal has its own rules (and some are strange). Therefore, just follow the authors instructions.

-hobglobin-

don't forget that the abbreviation of "litre" is the upper-case "L", not lower-case "l"

-swanny-