Online Style Guides for Science & Technology Writing

 Note that many societies have their own preferred citation styles. You can find these by checking the “instructions for authors” in any periodical or journal home page. Some journals like Science and Nature specify their own styles.

Columbia University Dissertations- Citation styles according to the discipline, consult your advisor or department as to which style is appropriate for your thesis. Requirements for page format (etc) can be found at: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsas/sub/dissertation/guidelines/other-req/index.html

AIP – American Institute of Physics Manual of Style, 4th edition. http://www.aip.org/pubservs/style/4thed/toc.html

 ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
http://www.acm.org/pubs/submissions/LaTeX_style/index.htm

ACS - American Chemical Society Quick Guide to using ACS citation style. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/CHEM/acsstyle.html. The current complete style guide is only available in print. The ACS style guide : effective communication of scientific information. QD8.5 .A25 2006 in the chemistry library.

AMS - American Mathematical Society Guide to TeX resources. TeX (BibTeX, LaTeX) software supports mathematical notation and is required for any submitted material.
http://www.ams.org/tex/

APA- American Psychological Association Publication Manual, 5th Edition http://www.apastyle.org/pubmanual.html

CBE – Council of Biology Editors, 6th Edition http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/researchsources/documentation/cbe_citation/index.cfm

GSA – Geological Society of America – style guidelines.
http://www.geosociety.org/pubs/geoguid5.htm

IEEE Reference guide which summarizes IEEE citation style. http://www.ece.uiuc.edu/pubs/ref_guides/ieee.html

Pubmed (Medline) NLM’s guide to medical citations
http://www.ece.uiuc.edu/pubs/ref_guides/ieee.html.

Kathleen Kehoe, Fall 2007