RESOURCES
We use and recommend many resources to ensure that the work we produce is of the highest standard and meets the requirements of our clients.
To ensure consistency in style, punctuation, spelling and use of scientific and other technical terms and conventions, we use Australian and international resources for best practice scientific and general editing.
Publications
| Alley M (2000). The Craft of Editing: A Guide for Managers, Scientists and Engineers, Springer, New York. |
| Commonwealth of Australia (2002). Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers, 6th edition, John Wiley & Sons, Australia. |
| Council of Scientific Editors (2006). Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Publishers, 7th edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. |
| Dodd J (ed) (1997). The ACS Style Guide: A Manual for Authors and Editors, 2nd edition, American Chemical Society (ACS), Washington DC. |
| Flann E and Hill B (2004). The Australian Editing Handbook, 2nd edition, Wiley, Australia. |
| Fogarty M (2008). Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, Holt Paperbacks, USA. |
| Goodman NW and Edwards MB (1993). Medical Writing: A Prescription for Clarity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. |
| James N (2007). Writing at Work: How to Write Clearly, Effectively and Professionally, Allen & Unwin, Australia. |
| Kaplan B (2001). Editing Made Easy: Secrets of the Professionals, 3rd edition, Bruce Kaplan, Victoria. |
| Kirkman J (1993). Full Marks: Advice on Punctuation for Scientific and Technical Writing, 2nd edition, Ramsbury Books, United Kingdom. |
| Kirkman J (1997). Good Style: Writing for Science and Technology, Chapman and Hall (E & FN Spon), London. |
| Mackenzie J (2004). The Editor’s Companion, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. |
| Sabto M (2003). The On-screen Editing Handbook, Tertiary Press, Victoria. |
| Strunk W Jr (2000). The Elements of Style, 4th edition, Longman Publishers, New York. |
| Whitbread D (2009). The Design Manual, 2nd edition, UNSW Press, Australia. |
Online resources
| Writing, editing and grammar |
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| Grammar Girl — Quick and dirty tips for better writing |
| Online Technical Writing: Online textbook |
| Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab |
| Finding things |
| PubMed — more than 19 million citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE and life science journals |
| Scirus — journal content, scientists’ homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and information on institutional repositories and websites |
| Species 2000 — a comprehensive listing of animal and plant species |
| The British National Formulary — great for checking tricky drug names |
| Tools |
| Bullfighter — great program for checking use of plain English |
| Wasteline test — assesses whether your writing is ‘flabby’ or ‘fit’ |
| Editor's Toolkit — lots of shortcuts for editing in MS Word |
| EditTools — reduces errors, particularly where styles are complex or illogical |
| PerfectIt — finds errors and inconsistencies in MS Word |
| Stylewriter — plain English editing program |
| Chicago Manual of Style Online from University of Chicago Press |
| Macquarie Dictionary and Macquarie Thesaurus online |
| Strunk's The Elements of Style |
| Tinyurl — to replace long URLs |
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