Quantities, Symbols, Units, and Abbreviations in the Life Sciences

A Guide for Authors and Editors

By: Arnost Kotyk

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Paperback | 1 April 1999

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An indispensable guide for editors authors and reviewers who want to understand the scientific terms used in the widest variety of fields. Quantities Symbols Units and Abbreviations in Life Sciences provides easy access to universally accepted symbols units abbreviations and measures of quantity for your scientific communications in the life sciences. Drawing on the authority of the various nomenclatural committees of the many international societies in bioscience as well as on the editors of prestigious scientific journals and on eminent individuals active in scientific publishing Arnost Kotyk brings together the most up-to-date recommendations for using units symbols abbreviations and acronyms in the biosciences. The diverse scope of disciplines include biochemistry molecular biology medicine genetics immunology and virology plus appropriate sections on mathematics physics and chemistry. This book grants authors and editors the security of knowing that their work will enjoy a high level of understandability among their colleagues. Reference librarians will also find Quantities Symbols Units and Abbreviations in Life Sciences a valuable tool for translating unknown acronyms and abbreviations.

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"...a must for editors, and a very useful one for everybody from cell biologists to psychologists in the life sciences. A copy should certainly be in most libraries, and readily available wherever papers, theses, reports and abstracts are being written."-Cell Biology International

"...This book is an essential resource for authors and editors of biological literature and should be in any library supporting such work."-American Reference Books Annual

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