Useful web links: citation and style advice from journals, etc.
Different science journals and associations have different style requirements, especially for citations.
Contributor: R. Michaelson, Emeritus Science Librarian- Northwestern University Science and Engineering Library, rmichael@northwestern.edu
Posted 2009
The Chicago Manual of Style
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/contents.html
RESOURCES FOR SUBMITTING WRITING TO VARIOUS JOURNALS:
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, Uniform requirements
for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals: writing and publishing
for biomedical journals
http://www.icmje.org/
Nature http://www.nature.com/nature/authors/gta/index.html
PNAS http://www.pnas.org/misc/iforc.shtml
Science http://www.sciencemag.org/authors/contributing-science-family-journals
ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) journals
http://ascelibrary.org/page/authors
IEEE author tools
http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html
ASME author resources http://journaltool.asme.org/Content/AuthorResources.cfm
OSA (Optical Society of America)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/author/author.cfm
AGU (American Geophysical Union) http://www.agu.org/pubs/
American Mathematical Society http://www.ams.org/authors
Physical Review http://authors.aps.org/STYLE/
Wiley journal manuscript submission guidelines
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/authorresources/journal-man-sub.html
A link to a very good book, The Chemistry Style Manual by Professor Kieran F Lim
http://www.deakin.edu.au/~lim/KFLim/books/Style_Manual_2004.pdf (pdf)
You can download it as a pdf file for free (see page 15 for copyright notice and permissions !!!)
Science writing advice--Yale
http://www.library.yale.edu/science/help/subject1.html
Online Version of the ACS Style Guide
http://pubs.acs.org.turing.