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Article: The ACS Style Guide: A Manual for Authors and Editors, 2d ed.(Review)
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- Technical Communication
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- November 1, 1998
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Janet S. Dodd, ed. 1997. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society. [ISBN 0-8412-3461-0. 460 pages, including index. $36.95.]
The ACS style guide has grown from 264 pages in the first edition to 460 in the second. The audience - authors and editors - has not changed.
Chapter 1, on writing a scientific paper, immediately addresses authors with 13 pages of selected points of style and usage (presumably because few scientist-authors are likely to venture far into a stylebook). Most of the advice is useful - for example, a concise discussion of appropriate verb tenses in scientific prose - and the examples throughout the book are virtually all ...