Research Guides: Physics Toolbox: For Authors

For Authors

AIP Style Manual by J.T. Scott (Editor)
ISBN: 088318642X
Publication Date: 1998-04-01

AIP Style Manual
For guidance in writing, editing, and preparing physics manuscripts for publication. Prepared under the direction of the AIP Publication Board.
APS Style Guide
2011 version of Physical Review Style and Notation Guide
by Anne Waldron, Peggy Judd, and Valerie Miller.
Writing Scientific Research Articles
Excellent overview of the structure of a research article. Provided by the library consortium, VIVA. Users must select their institution at login.
The Manual of Scientific Style; a guide for authors, editors and researchers
Rabinowitz and Vogel provide this extensive guide for authors, editors and researchers. Part 1 covers general guidelines for writing, style and usage, citations and copyright. Parts 2 & 3 provide subject-specific chapters.
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Physics Journals Abbreviation List
Style list from the American Physical Society
Craft of Scientific Writing, by Michael Alley
This book is designed to help scientists and engineers--both professionals already active in the disciplines as well as students preparing to enter the professions--write about their work clearly and effectively. The author, who is both a writer and an applied physicist, approaches the subject in a fresh way. Using scores of examples from a wide variety of authors and disciplines (including such well-known figures as Einstein, Bohr, and Freud), the book demonstrates the difference between strong scientific writing and weak scientific writing.
Duke Graduate School Scientific Writing Resource
LaTeX symbol classifier
Guide to LaTeX

LaTeX in 24 Hours by Dilip Datta
ISBN: 3319478311
Publication Date: 2017-06-27
This book presents direct and concise explanations and examples to many LaTeX syntax and structures, allowing students and researchers to quickly understand the basics that are required for writing and preparing book manuscripts, journal articles, reports, presentation slides and academic theses and dissertations for publication. Unlike much of the literature currently available on LaTeX, which takes a more technical stance, focusing on the details of the software itself, this book presents a user-focused guide that is concerned with its application to everyday tasks and scenarios. It is packed with exercises and looks at topics like formatting text, drawing and inserting tables and figures, bibliographies and indexes, equations, slides, and provides valuable explanations to error and warning messages so you can get work done with the least time and effort needed. This means LaTeX in 24 Hours can be used by students and researchers with little or no previous experience with LaTeX to gain quick and noticeable results, as well as being used as a quick reference guide for those more experienced who want to refresh their knowledge on the subject.

Using Zotero with Overleaf
Instructions on how to use the open source citation manager Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/) with Overleaf
W&M data management best practices
W&M guide to data management plans
Department of Energy Data Management requirements
HEP program - additional data guidelines

Publishers & Copyright

RoMEO
Tracks publisher copyright policies and self-archiving permissions. Search by journal title or publisher.
JULIET
Summarizes funder mandates for Open Access. Find out what to archive, where to archive and when to archive to comply with requirements.
Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook
An authoritative source on Open Access, covering the concept, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving it. The site highlights developments and initiatives from around the world, with links to additional resources and case studies.