Abstract:

The national standard GB/T 7713.2—2022 Rules for Writing Academic Papers released on December 30, 2022, has made clear regulations on the use of “quantities and units” in academic papers through clauses such as requirement type, recommendation type, and permission type. During the implementation of this standard, some colleagues have raised some questions. In order to make these clauses precisely understood and properly implemented, as a participant in the formulation and revision of GB/T 7713.2, I intend to briefly answer these questions in this paper, such as What is the standardized name of a quantity? Why should the name of a quantity composed of “unit + number” not be used? Is it correct to use the italicized English abbreviation of the name of a quantity as its symbol and the abbreviation used in Western countries to represent the share of quantity as the unit symbol? Why should the legal measurement units be used? What is the binary multiple prefix? Why is it allowed to write only the unit of the last quantity value for a group of quantity values with the same unit?

Key words: quantities and units, academic papers, standardization