The APA or American Psychological Association style of writing is usually used in the setting of social sciences. Adhering to APA standards in your paper or journal writing ensures a unified standard, or style, throughout the work and makes sure that your work will fit in with other similar works if it should get published. The APA style is not limited to just psychology works but is also used in other academic fields such as sociology and political science. The standards for abbreviating milliseconds ensures that anyone familiar with the APA style guidelines understands your abbreviation and does not mistake it with another unit of measure which could change the entire context of your paper.
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Shorten the word "milliseconds" to "ms" to abbreviate according to APA guidelines.
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Use numerals for the number of milliseconds you are referencing. Per APA guidelines, you should always use numerals when referring to digits 10 or above. Since milliseconds are a precise unit, you will also use numerals even if the unit being referred to is a single digit.
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Put a leading zero to the left of the decimal point if you are dealing with a decimal fraction of a millisecond in your APA paper.