Citing Your Sources & Writing Styles

Presents consistent guidelines for writing text, data, and graphics in the physical and biological sciences, medicine, health, and technology.

Provides a framework, starting from simple statements, for writing papers for submission to peer-reviewed journals. It also describes how to address referees' comments, approaches for composing other types of scientific communications, and key linguistic aspects of scientific writing.

Topics include designing visual aids, writing first drafts, reviewing and revising, communicating clearly and concisely, adhering to stylistic principles, presenting data in tables and figures, dealing with ethical and legal issues, and relating science to the lay audience.

Teaches the style and conventions of writing for a peer-reviewed scientific journal. From structure to style, titles to tables, abstracts to author lists, this book gives practical advice about the process of writing a paper and getting it published.

For more than fifty years, authors, editors, and publishers in the scientific community have turned to Scientific Style and Format for authoritative recommendations on all matters of writing style and citation. Developed by the Council of Science Editors (CSE), the leading professional association in science publishing, this indispensable guide encompasses all areas of the sciences.

Provides assistance to authors in compiling lists of references for their publications, to editors in revising such lists, to publishers in setting reference standards for their authors and editors, and to librarians and others in formatting bibliographic citations.

Ch. 12 from The manual of scientific style : a guide for authors, editors, and researchers (2009)

Ch. 13 from The manual of scientific style : a guide for authors, editors, and researchers (2009)

Guides authors in preparing manuscripts and other material submitted for publication by American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America. It should be used as a primary source for writing, style, editing, and procedures for ASA-CSSA-SSSA publications.

Provides 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.

Ch. 9 from The manual of scientific style : a guide for authors, editors, and researchers (2009).

Ch. 10 from The manual of scientific style : a guide for authors, editors, and researchers (2009).

Helps both engineers and students improve their writing skills by learning to analyze target audience, tone, and purpose in order to effectively write technical documents This book introduces students and practicing engineers to all the components of writing in the workplace.

This textbook is designed for non-native English speakers who need to write scientific and engineering research articles, technical reports, engineering thesis, academic books, and other technical documents in English. The author focuses on formal academic writing in a professional language and frame. The book is written in standard English and provides useful guidelines on development of thoughts, organization of ideas, construction of paragraphs and sentences, and choices of precise words.

Ch.11 from The manual of scientific style : a guide for authors, editors, and researchers (2009).

Ch. 6 from The manual of scientific style : a guide for authors, editors, and researchers (2009)

Ch. 7 of The manual of scientific style : a guide for authors, editors, and researchers (2009)

Ch. 8 from The manual of scientific style : a guide for authors, editors, and researchers (2009)