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- Avoid using a hyphen after a standard -ly adverb (a newly available home).
- A hyphen is not a dash. Hyphens are used within words or to join words, but not in punctuating the parts of a sentence. Use an en dash (–) with
before and a space after; or use an em dash (—) without spaces. See How to make dashes. Avoid using two hyphens--to make a dash; and avoid using a hyphen for a minus sign. - Use an en dash, not a hyphen, between numbers: pp. 14–21; 1953–2008. An en dash is also to connect parallel terms: red–green colorblind; a New York–London flight. Use spaces around the en dash only if the connected terms are multi-unit dates: January 1999 – December 2000.
- For quotations use
{{ndash|Author's Name}}.