Style Guides by Subject
Some disciplines have their own guides to research and writing. You may find them in the library catalog. Use the Subject Heading search option, with the subject being your discipline plus research handbooks. For example: sociology research handbooks or history research handbooks.
Online Resources
- ACS Style GuideAn established resource for the chemistry community for information needed to write, review, submit, and edit scholarly and scientific manuscripts.
- Citing medicine: the NLM style guide for authors, editors, and publishersKaren Patrias ; Daniel L. Wendling, technical editor. 2nd edition. Bethesda, Md. : Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2007.
- Style and ethics of communication in science and engineeringCan be used as a textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses on technical communication and ethics, a reference book for senior design courses, or a handbook for young investigators and beginning faculty members.
- The manual of scientific style : a guide for authors, editors, and researchersBoston : Academic Press/Elsevier, 2009.
- American Medical Association Manual of StyleProvides a detailed and comprehensive guide to proper style and formatting for papers, articles, theses, dissertations, and books for medical and scientific researchers.
Online Writing Manuals
- Mastering Scientific and Medical Writing : A Self-help GuideRogers, Silvia M. author.
Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014, 2nd ed. 2014.. - Scientic Writing in a Second LanguageDavid Ian Hanauer and Karen Englander.
Anderson. South Carolina : Parlor Press, [2013]
Manuals
- Essential Skills for Science & TechnologyNew York : Oxford Univ. Press,
2008.
SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING LIBRARY
Call number: 507.11 Z43e