European Science Editing 47: e59855, doi: 10.3897/ese.2020.e59855
The "ize" have it - reflections on spelling and its rules
Denys Wheatley‡‡ Chairman and Director, BioMedES UK; International Advisor ESE, Inverurie, United Kingdom
Corresponding author: Denys Wheatley ( editor@biomedes.biz ) Academic editor: Dado Čakalo © Denys Wheatley. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Wheatley D (2020) The "ize" have it - reflections on spelling and its rules. European Science Editing 46: e59855. https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2020.e59855 |  |
Abstract
A brief discussion is presented of the use of "ize" rather than "ise" in most current day journals. The need for editors and authors to be consistent in their spelling remains an issue.
Keywords
Consistency, editing, ise, ize, UK English, US English, spelling