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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)
- 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.