Foreword ...................................................... vii
Madeleine Jacobs
Preface ........................................................ ix
Contributors ................................................. xiii
Part 1. Scientific Communication
1 Ethics in Scientific Communication ........................... 3
Gordon G. Hammes
APPENDIX 1-1: Ethical Guidelines to Publication of
Chemical Research ........................................... 11
2 Scientific Papers ........................................... 17
3 The Editorial Process ....................................... 27
APPENDIX 3-1: Proofreaders' Marks ........................... 36
4 Writing Style and Word Usage ................................ 41
5 Electronic Submission of Manuscripts Using Web-Based
Systems ..................................................... 59
Sarah C. Blendermann
APPENDIX 5-1: Online Submission at Selected Scientific
Publishers and Research Grant Agencies ................... 65
APPENDIX 5-2: Key Features of Selected Online Submission
Systems .................................................. 68
6 Peer Review ................................................. 71
Barbara A. Booth
7 Copyright Basics ............................................ 77
Karen S. Buehler, C. Arleen Courtney, and Eric
S. Slater
8 Markup Languages and the Datument ........................... 87
Peter Murray-Rust and Henry S. Rzepa
APPENDIX 8-1: The IUPAC International Chemical Identifier,
InChI ................................................... 101
Stephen R. Heller and Alan D. McNaught
Part 2. Style Guidelines
9 Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling ......................... 105
APPENDIX 9-1: Recommended Spelling List .................... 129
10 Editorial Style ............................................ 135
APPENDIX 10-1: Computer and Internet Terms ................. 163
APPENDIX 10-2: Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols ........ 169
11 Numbers, Mathematics, and Units of Measure ................. 203
APPENDIX 11-1: The International System of Units (SI) ...... 228
12 Names and Numbers for Chemical Compounds ................... 233
APPENDIX 12-1: End-of-Line Hyphenation of Chemical Names ... 247
APPENDIX 12-2: Representation of Combinatorial Chemistry ... 250
Derek Maclean
APPENDIX 12-3: CAS Registry Numbers ........................ 253
13 Conventions in Chemistry ................................... 255
APPENDIX 13-1: Symbols for Commonly Used Physical
Quantities .............................................. 277
APPENDIX 13-2: The Crystallographic Information File ....... 284
Frank H. Allen
14 References ................................................. 287
Janet S. Dodd, Leah Solla, and Paula M. Bérard
APPENDIX 14-1: CASSI Abbreviations for the 1000+ Most
Commonly Cited Journals ................................. 328
APPENDIX 14-2: A Sample CASSI Entry ........................ 340
15 Figures .................................................... 343
Betsy Kulamer
16 Tables ..................................................... 369
Betsy Kulamer
17 Chemical Structures ........................................ 375
Antony Williams
18 Selected Bibliography ...................................... 385
Index ......................................................... 389
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