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The Manual of Scientific Style

A Guide for Authors, Editors, and Researchers

  • 1st Edition - March 25, 2009
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Harold Rabinowitz, Suzanne Vogel
  • Language: English

Much like the Chicago Manual of Style, The Manual of Scientific Style addresses all stylistic matters in the relevant disciplines of physical and biological science, medici… Read more

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Description

Much like the Chicago Manual of Style, The Manual of Scientific Style addresses all stylistic matters in the relevant disciplines of physical and biological science, medicine, health, and technology. It presents consistent guidelines for text, data, and graphics, providing a comprehensive and authoritative style manual that can be used by the professional scientist, science editor, general editor, science writer, and researcher.

Key features

  • Scientific disciplines treated independently, with notes where variances occur in the same linguistic areas
  • Organization and directives designed to assist readers in finding the precise usage rule or convention
  • A focus on American usage in rules and formulations with noted differences between American and British usage
  • Differences in the various levels of scientific discourse addressed in a variety of settings in which science writing appears
  • Instruction and guidance on the means of improving clarity, precision, and effectiveness of science writing, from its most technical to its most popular

Readership

Anyone working with scientific vocabulary including contributors to scientific journal articles, authors/editors to scientific monographs, serials, and reference works, editors, writers, and designers preparing publications at all levels of readership

Table of contents

Part I. General Style
Manuscript Preparation
General Style
Units of Measurement
Citation of References
Presentation of Data and Figures

Part II. References, Citations and Quotations
Standards for Clear and Proper Attribution
Standard Citation Formats
Text Sources
Audiovisual Media
Electronic Sources

Part III. Style Issues for Specific Disciplines
Mathematics
Physics
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Science
Life Science
Medicine
Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
Computer Science and Information Science

Appendices:
Scientific Organizations and Publications: Standard Abbreviations
Classification Schemes in Science and Technology
Standard Abbreviation Dictionary
Difficult and Troublesome Terms and Words
Comparative Standards for Shared Terms and Conventions

Bibliography
Index

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 25, 2009
  • Language: English

About the editors

HR

Harold Rabinowitz

Harold Rabinowitz is the Director, Reference Works, Inc. and a Member of the Advisory Board of Pace University Master’s Program in Publishing
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Reference Works, Inc. and a Member of the Advisory Board of Pace University Master’s Program in Publishing

SV

Suzanne Vogel

Suzanne Vogel is a Physics Teacher at Brooklyn Technical High School in Brooklyn NY
Affiliations and expertise
Physics Teacher, Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn NY

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