PART I: SCIENTIFIC WRITING: AIMS AND FORMS
Reports
Theses
Papers (Journal Articles)
Books
PART II: SCIENTIFIC WRITING: MATERIALS, TOOLS, AND METHODS
Word Processors and Electronic Manuscript
Formulas and Equations
Figures
Tables
Collecting and Citing the Literature
Appendixes
A Abbreviations
B Standard Reference Formats
C Selected Quantities, Units, and Constants
D 20 Rules for Preparing a Manuscript on Diskette
E Adresses of Companies and Institutes
Literature
Index
Hans F. Ebel received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1960 with Georg
Wittig at the University of Heidelberg (Germany). He was for many
years Senior Editor and later a member of the board of directors of
the publishing house Verlag Chemie/VCH (now Wiley-VCH). Author and
co-author of numerous original publications including books, he has
been active since 1982 in the field of scientific and technical
communication in general and scientific publication in particular.
He has also contributed to the terminological activities of DIN
(Deutsches Institut für Normung) and is a board member of the
European Association of Science Editors
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Claus Bliefert has since 1973 been a Professor of Chemistry at the
University of Applied Sciences Münster (Germany). Responsible for
numerous research contributions in the fields of hydroxylamines and
fluorine chemistry, he was in 1994 named director of the school's
Laboratory for Environmental Chemistry, and this subject has become
his principal interest in both teaching and applied research.
Author and co-author of numerous books, including several in the
field of scientific communication, he regularly presents lectures
and seminars on topics like "Scientific Writing" and "Technical
Presentation".
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William E. Russey earned his Ph.D. in chemistry at Harvard in 1967,
where he was in the research group of E. J. Corey. His professional
life was spent on the faculty of Juniata College, Huntingdon
(Pennsylvania), from which he retired as Dana-Supported Professor
of Chemistry in 2002. Translator of several books, primarily for
VCH, and numerous articles for Angewandte Chemie, and an editor and
translator with the Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry,
he has also co-authored the book Text and Graphics in the
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