Let user control tick format

[prmiles]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Some of the plots are hard to see because of not being in scientific notation.

Describe the solution you'd like
Let the user provide "scilimits=(m,n), style='sci'" as part of the settings dictionary.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I've tried handling it outside of the function call but it gets messy.

Additional context
Some discussion here is useful: matplotlib/matplotlib#461