Description: An indispensable guide for editors, authors, and reviewers who want their scientific communications in the life sciences to conform to standard usage and to use universally understood symbols, units, abbreviations, and measures of quantity. Drawing on the wide experience and knowledge of various international societies in bioscience, as well as on the editors of prestigious scientific journals, it provides the most up-to-date recommendations for using units, symbols, abbreviations, and acronyms in the biosciences. The scope of disciplines ranges from biochemistry, molecular biology, and medicine, to genetics, immunology, and virology, and includes 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.

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