Using Numbers in academic writing

Using Numbers in academic writing

In academic writing for numeric numbers from zero to ten, the number is written as a word and not as a number, i.e. 1 = one, 2 = two, etc.  It is NOT required to put the number in brackets behind the word for numbers equal to and below 10, i.e. one (1), or (2), etc.

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