“It’s very clear,” she replied, and moved off to a nearby tree.Īnd that’s what we’d advise-unless your author favors a style that’s notably light on commas and asks that you leave commas like that one out. She replied and moved off to a nearby tree.īut in dialogue, a speaker tag is usually set off from a quotation by a comma it makes sense that, by a similar logic, the speaker tag would also be set off from any action or other narration that occurs in the same sentence: Normally, a comma wouldn’t be required before the conjunction in a sentence that features a compound predicate (see CMOS 6.23): I also think it needs to be “she replied, and THEN moved off.” Can you help?Ī. I tend to think it’s needed but can’t articulate why. My author wants to know whether a comma is called for in constructions like the following, where a conjunction follows the dialogue tag but doesn’t introduce an independent clause: “It’s very clear,” she replied and moved off to a nearby tree.
But note that all figures, whether they will be numbered in the published version or not, should carry a working number in the manuscript (see CMOS 3.13). 1 and tables 1 and 2).ĬMOS, which is a general reference, allows for any of those approaches. The corresponding figure caption would begin with “Figure” or “Fig.” This approach is recommended by the AMA Manual of Style (11th ed., 4.2.7.1) and Scientific Style and Format ( 8th ed., 30.2.1)-though the word “figure” would be capitalized in direct references in both of those styles.īut assigning a number to such a figure would be appropriate in at least three scenarios: (1) the figure is the only one in a chapter in a book featuring numbered figures in other chapters (2) the figure is the only one in an article in a journal whose house style requires assigning numbers for all figures for consistency across articles and (3) the figure occurs in a context that also includes more than one numbered table (e.g., fig. A lone figure, even if it is referred to in the text, can usually remain unnumbered:Īll but one of the posters relied on a conventional list the outlier used an infographic (see figure). If a document references only one figure, should it be labeled “Figure 1” or assigned no number?Ī.
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