Chapter-Specific Changes
Chapter | Major Changes |
Chapter 1: | Section 1.2.1: information added about abstracts and abstracting and indexing databases |
Chapter 2: | Section 2.2: new details provided about online databases and repositories
Section 2.9: new Section, “Responsibilities of Publishers, Journal Owners, and Sponsoring Societies” |
Chapter 3: | Section 3.2.2.2: outlines recent changes to copyright application instructions
Section 3.3.4: new Section, “Creative Commons Licenses”, provides details to help users interested in making their work available to others and the various levels of licensing possible through the Creative Commons licensing office |
Chapter 4: | Section 4.3: contains updated information about STIX fonts, including Version 1.1.0, which was released in 2012 |
Chapter 5: | Section 5.4.1.1: “email” is no longer hyphenated |
Chapter 7: | Section 7.9: new Section, “Active vs. Passive Voice”, provides recommendations on the appropriate place within a scientific manuscript to use each type of voice |
Chapter 12: | Significantly revised and reorganized for ease of use and to provide the user with recent updates
Section 12.1.3.1: change in recommendation to now use a comma (instead of a thin space, as recommended in the 7th edition) in whole numbers with 4 or more digits |
Chapter 13: | Section 13.2.1: clarification made to more accurately describe the use of time units and their approved abbreviations
Chapter title changed to better encompass chapter contents
Section 13.2.2: clarification made regarding how best to refer to clock time |
Chapter 14: | Outdated references to the USSR were removed and other country names updated |
Chapter 15: | Section 15.2: simplified for better understanding of longer wavelengths |
Chapter 18: | Updates were made to be in line with the most recent edition of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Green Book (e.g., the symbol for “apparent” is now “app′” [prime]; the abbreviation for “fluid” is now “f” instead of “fl”) |
Chapter 19: | Section 19.2.1: 2 new techniques were added: electron microscopy and lab-on-a-chip |
Chapter 21: | Section 21.2: new information addresses new technologies and the naming of single-nucleotide polymorphisms
Section 21.14.7.1: updated Section on cotton nomenclature
Section 21.14.5.3: updated Section on soybean genetics
Section 21.15.7: updated Section on human genetic nomenclature |
Chapter 23: | Section 23.5.10: significantly reorganized and modified for clarity |
Chapter 26: | Section 26.4.2: title was changed from “Minor Planets (Asteroids) and Comets” to “Dwarf Planets and Small Solar System Bodies (Asteroids and Comets)”
The use of “minor planets” was removed throughout the chapter in accordance with the 2006 definitions from the International Astronomical Union, part of which reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet instead of a planet |
Chapter 27: | Contains significant updates to language, including removing references to videocassettes as a modern, viable option for publication
Section 27.3.1.2: acknowledges the increasingly prevalent use of online-only publications and parts of publications
Section 27.3.1.2.2: updated references to browsers (e.g., removed mention of AltaVista) |
Chapter 28: | Chapter title changed to be more inclusive of all forms of publication |
Chapter 29: | Section 29.3.7.11: recommendation changed to no longer include a physical description in a reference listing
Section 29.3.7.13: title changed from “Homepages and Other Internet Material” to “Websites and Other Online Formats”
recommendations and examples were added for reference citations to e-books, online databases, online images and infographics, podcasts and webcasts, online videos, blogs, and social networking sites |
Chapter 30: | Significantly revised and reorganized for ease of use and to provide the user with recent updates |
Chapter 31: | Sections 31.1 and 31.2.1: distinctions were added to clarify the differences between “typeface”, “text attributes”, and “font”
Section 31.3.2: includes new information about XML, HTML, and electronic devices
Language was updated throughout to accommodate electronic software systems as opposed to more print-centric tools |
Chapter 32: | Section 32.4: updated with new mark-up recommendations to hard-copy proofs
Section 32.5: new Section, “Annotating PDF Proofs”, provides helpful information covering the basics of PDF annotation and new figures depicting useful tools |