Physics and scientific style guides

• AIP style manual [online or print]
• Chicago guide to communicating science [print]
• Communicating science: a practical guide [online or print]
• Handbook of typography for the mathematical sciences [online or print]
• MIT guide to science and engineering communication [print]
• Scientific style and format: the CSE manual for authors, editors, and publishers [print]
• LaTeX - a document preparation system
• LaTeX: a beginner's guide
• LaTeX companion [online or print]
• Digital typography using LaTex
• More math into LaTex [online or print]
• PracTeX Journal -- online journal of the TeX Users Group
• TeX Users Group Website
• TUGBoat: Communications of the TeX Users Group (technical article available to TUG members only)

Writing, publishing and presenting

• Craft of scientific presentations: critical steps to succeed and critical errors to avoid [online or print]
• From research to manuscript: a guide to scientific writing [online or print]
• Guide to publishing a scientific paper [print]
• How to do your dissertation in geography and related disciplines [print]
• How to write a successful science thesis: the concise guide for students [print]
• How to write and illustrate scientific papers [print]
• How to write and publish a scientific paper [print]
• Mathematical publishing: a guidebook [print]
• Science and technical writing: a manual of style [online or print]
• Scientists must speak: bringing presentations to life [online or print]
• Writing for science [online or print]

Bibliographic management tools

Use Citation Management Software to store your references online and create properly formatted bibliographies with in-text citations or footnotes. 

Instructions to authors

• American Institute of Physics (AIP) - Author Resource Center
• American Physical Society (APS) - Information for Authors
• Canadian journal of physics - Instructions to authors
• Optical Society of America - Author information

Author's rights

• APS Copyright Transfer Form
• IUCr Transfer of Copyright Agreement
• NRC Research Press Copyright Information
• Resources for Authors -- from SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
  • Author's addendum
• SHERPA -- A summary of publisher copyright policies & self-archiving information.

Open access options for authors

• APS Free to Read
• Bentham Science
• BioMedCentral
• Cambridge University Press Open Option\
• Copernicus Open Access Publishing
• Elsevier Sponsored Articles
• European Physical Journals - (EPJ)
• Hindawi Publishing Corporation
• IUCr (International Union of Crystallography) Open Access
• NRC Research Press OpenArticle
• Optical Society of America - Optional Open Access
• Oxford University Press Open
• New Journal of Physics (IOP)
• PNAS Open Access Option -- Corresponding authors from institutions with Site Licenses/Open Access Memberships will receive a discounted price to make their papers immediately free online.
• Royal Society ExiS Open Choice
• Springer Open Access & Open Choice
• Taylor & Francis Open
• Wiley-Blackwell OnlineOpen
• WorldSciNet Open Access

More information is available on the Library's Scholarly Publishing page.