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The ACS Style Guide: Effective Communication of Scientific Information (An American Chemical Society Publication)

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I'm a science copyeditor, and I truly don't know how I'd manage without this book. If it has to do with chemistry, it's here (thank heaven!). And there's a wealth of clear information about how to format math, a wonderful list of unit abbreviations, and even a fair amount about physics- and biology-related terminology. It has the most lucid and concise explanations I've seen about when to apply italics or roman. And it's reasonably priced. Of course, if you specifically need to follow ACS style, this book is de rigeur, but even if you don't, you'll find it invaluable for science copyediting.

most of this info can be found online, but it is nice to have a print version on hand while writing/editing work

This book is also a must have for any grad student! If there is anything you are struggling with in regards to publishing and ethics this book will break it down to the core. It will also guide the writer on how to write proficiently and concisely.

In anticipation of starting my own business as a freelance scientific editor, I bought several style guides, one of which was this style guide and including the highly recommended "Scientific Style and Format" from CSE. The ACS Style Guide is the one I use the most, and now it's falling apart and I need to purchase another. I absolutely can't do without it!

Shipping was regular, but it was expedited and the book was really brand new as stated. Excellent!

It's a writing guide: it shows me how to coorectly enter foot notes, end notes and bibliographies for scientific papers as well as the correct format of these papers.

this book is in very good condition--brand new!!!

and it's so helpful to my writing style being a chemistry student

The book is in very good condition and the shipping is fast, it reached me within 5 days and I am quite satisfied with that. It is a useful book for me as I am a chemist, but for the rest of you, if you are intersted in making citations in ACS style on everything you present, the book is right for you.

I don't know if this book is nice or not, I just have to buy it in order to pass an exam. But the service is nice, I got the book quick.

just use the internet to learn how to reference things. this book is just chaos