The Manual of Scientific Style: A Guide for Authors, Editors, and Researchers
Language: English
Pages: 984
ISBN: 0123739802
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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.
- 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
the advance of research and knowledge in the field. How does one evaluate whether a given journal is indeed peerreviewed to the standards set forth by the governing professional bodies of a discipline? Generally, this can be determined by seeing whether the journal’s articles are indexed or the abstracts of its articles are published in the services that are maintained specifically for this purpose. Journals listed and referenced in such services as Index Medicus, Chemical Abstracts, Current
iv. Pamphlets and booklets. The internet has also made self-publishing a viable possibility, both economically and procedurally. It is not only possible to produce books using templates provided on the websites of publishers, but it is also possible to market publications that are produced on-demand, minimizing the outlay of capital required for manufacturing, warehousing, and fulfillment. (Again, see Appendix I.) Is this a major development in the world of publishing? Well, yes and no: no,
such questions, so it stands to reason (according to some people’s thinking) that an author does service to one’s own research by offering an opinion at the outset. d. Are there unresolved issues that should be addressed? Are there predictions that may be derived from the findings that may clarify discrepancies or uncertainties? This will not only provide grist for further discussion of the paper, but will be seized upon by other researchers as an invitation to further the research and extend the
Spacing after. Leave only one space after colons in running text, except in specialized technical uses, such as when separating parts of chromosomes or molecules. (See Part II, Chapter12, Section 12.2.1.4.) iv. Lowercase or capital letter after. When a colon is used in a sentence to introduce two or more sentences, or when it is used to introduce dialogue after a speaker, the word after it needs to be capitalized. Otherwise, the word may remain lowercased. The outlook was grim: If he withdrew his
subtler effects, such as non-linear motion and vortices, are at work in such systems.) iv. Note number and placement. Note numbers should come after a closing parenthesis. In fact, he would later briefly run a successful restaurant (but not until well after the war).3 v. With cross-references. Cross references after subentries should be enclosed in parentheses. surfaces: boundaryless, 54–58; non-orientable, 60–61, 65; (see also Möbius strip) vi. For glosses or translations. Use parentheses to