Writing very small numbers in Latex figures - latex

Question

I have a basic figure where I want the following numbers to be in the Y axis 0.004,0.005,...,0.018
When I write them in the code they appear in a different way as you see in the screenshot. I know this is mathematically correct but they look odd and I want to them to be shown exactly as I put them in the code.
This is the code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx} % Required for inserting images
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{tikzpicture} [style={outer sep=5}]
\begin{axis}[ymin=0.004,ymax=0.018, xmin=15, xmax=50,
xlabel= $Number of Nodes$, ylabel = $end-to-end (sec)$,
xtick={15,20,...,50},
ytick={0.004,0.005,...,0.018},
yticklabel style={/pgf/number format/fixed},
grid={major},clip=false,grid style={dashed},
title={},
legend style={at={(1.2 ,1)},anchor=north},
font=\footnotesize]
% TAODV
\addplot[color=blue, mark=*, samples=10] [error bars/.cd,y dir=both, y explicit] coordinates {
(15, 0.0072) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(20, 0.0079) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(25, 0.0092) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(30, 0.01) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(35, 0.013) +-(0.0018, -0.0018)
(40, 0.0137) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(45, 0.015) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(50, 0.0168)+-(0.001, -0.001)
};
% AODV
\addplot[color=red, mark=*, samples=10] [error bars/.cd,y dir=both, y explicit] coordinates {
(15, 0.0052) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(20, 0.0057) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(25, 0.0067) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(30, 0.0074) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(35, 0.0082) +-(0.0018, -0.0018)
(40, 0.0095) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(45, 0.01) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(50, 0.0109) +-(0.001, -0.001)
};
\legend{
$TAODV$,
$AODV$
}
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\caption[End-to-end delay of TAODV vs. AODV]{End-to-end delay of TAODV vs. AODV with \%95 confidence interval}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Answer 1

You can use scaled y ticks=false to switch off the common scaling factor. Please also note that math mode is a horrible choice for multi-letter words or even whole phrases.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx} % Required for inserting images
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{tikzpicture} [style={outer sep=5}]
\begin{axis}[ymin=0.004,ymax=0.018, xmin=15, xmax=50,
xlabel= \emph{Number of Nodes}, ylabel = \emph{end-to-end (sec)},
xtick={15,20,...,50},
ytick={0.004,0.005,...,0.018},
grid={major},clip=false,grid style={dashed},
title={},
legend style={at={(1.2 ,1)},anchor=north},
font=\footnotesize,
scaled y ticks=false,
yticklabel style={/pgf/number format/fixed,/pgf/number format/precision=3},
]
% TAODV
\addplot[color=blue, mark=*, samples=10] [error bars/.cd,y dir=both, y explicit] coordinates {
(15, 0.0072) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(20, 0.0079) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(25, 0.0092) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(30, 0.01) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(35, 0.013) +-(0.0018, -0.0018)
(40, 0.0137) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(45, 0.015) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(50, 0.0168)+-(0.001, -0.001)
};
% AODV
\addplot[color=red, mark=*, samples=10] [error bars/.cd,y dir=both, y explicit] coordinates {
(15, 0.0052) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(20, 0.0057) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(25, 0.0067) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(30, 0.0074) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(35, 0.0082) +-(0.0018, -0.0018)
(40, 0.0095) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(45, 0.01) +-(0.001, -0.001)
(50, 0.0109) +-(0.001, -0.001)
};
\legend{
\emph{TAODV},
\emph{AODV}
}
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\caption[End-to-end delay of TAODV vs. AODV]{End-to-end delay of TAODV vs. AODV with \%95 confidence interval}
\end{figure}
\end{document}