The ACS Style Guide: Effective Communication of Scientific Information / Edition 3

by Anne M. Coghill, Lorrin R. Garson

Overview

In the time since the second edition of The ACS Style Guide was published, the rapid growth of electronic communication has dramatically changed the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publication world. This dynamic mode of dissemination is enabling scientists, engineers, and medical practitioners all over the world to obtain and transmit information quickly and easily. An essential constant in this changing environment is the requirement that information remain accurate, clear, unambiguous, and ethically sound.

This extensive revision of The ACS Style Guide thoroughly examines electronic tools now available to assist STM writers in preparing manuscripts and communicating with publishers. Valuable updates include discussions of markup languages, citation of electronic sources, online submission of manuscripts, and preparation of figures, tables, and structures. In keeping current with the changing environment, this edition also contains references to many resources on the internet.

With this wealth of new information, The ACS Style Guide's Third Edition continues its long tradition of providing invaluable insight on ethics in scientific communication, the editorial process, copyright, conventions in chemistry, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and writing style for any STM author, reviewer, or editor. The Third Edition is the definitive source for all information needed to write, review, submit, and edit scholarly and scientific manuscripts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780841239999
Publisher:	American Chemical Society
Publication date:	08/28/2006
Series:	American Chemical Society Publication Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	448
Sales rank:	184,393
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.30(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter
Number Chapter
Title
Preface
1. Ethics in Scientific Publication
Appendix 1-1 Ethical Guidelines to Publication of Chemical Research
2. Scientific Papers
3. The Editorial Process
4. Writing Style and Word Usage
5. Electronic Submission of Manuscripts Using Web-Based Systems
6. Peer Review
7. Copyright Basics
8. Markup Languages and the Datument
Appendix 8-1 The IUPAC International Chemical Identifier, InChI
9. Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling
10. Editorial Style
11. Numbers, Mathematics, and Units of Measure
12. Names and Numbers for Chemical Compounds
Appendix 12-1 End-of-Line Hyphenation of Chemical Names
Appendix 12-2 Representation of Combinatorial Chemistry
Appendix 12-3 CAS Registry Numbers.
13. Conventions in Chemistry
Appendix 13-1 Symbols for Commonly Used Physical Quantities
Appendix 13-2 The Crystallographic Information File
14. References
15. Figures
16. Tables
17. Chemical Structures
18. Bibliography
Index