Acknowledgments

All 9 editions of the Council of Science Editors (CSE) manual were made possible by volunteer science editors. During the course of more than 60 years, those volunteers documented style and format to enable fellow science editors to apply to publishing a level of discipline, precision, and integrity akin to that which scientists apply to their research.

Just as science evolves, so does scientific publishing. The volunteers who labored over the ninth edition of The CSE Manual: Scientific Style and Format for Authors, Editors, and Publishers revised the manual so that it will remain alive and relevant as an authoritative reference for writing and editing documents in various scientific disciplines.

CSE owes enormous gratitude to the many individuals who contributed to this edition of The CSE Manual, especially the volunteer chapter editors and peer reviewers. In ways both great and small, the contributors named below made a significant difference that should benefit all editors and authors who use The CSE Manual.

Special thanks are owed to the 8 chapter editors from the eighth edition who returned for the ninth: Emmanuel A. Ameh, MBBS, FWACS, FACS; Dana M. Compton; Tina L. Fleischer; Beth E. Hazen, PhD; Raymond Lambert, MLS, ELS; Thomas A. Lang, MA; Beva Nall-Langdon; and Mary Warner, CAE. Also worthy of special praise is Sun Huh, MD, PhD, the only contributor who drafted a new chapter for the ninth edition.

If anyone who helped prepare this manual was omitted from the following list, it was unintentional, and CSE sincerely apologizes for the error.

Project manager for The CSE Manual
Michael E. Fitzgerald, CAE

PRODUCTION PROJECT MANAGER FOR The CSE Manual
Peter J. Olson, ELS

Advisory Group
Dana M. Compton, CSE Board of Directors’ liaison
Mary E. Laur, executive editor at The University of Chicago Press
Russell Harper, freelance editor and writer
Mollie McFee, senior editorial associate at The University of Chicago Press
Michael E. Fitzgerald, CAE, project manager for The CSE Manual

Style Manual Task Force

The Style Manual Task Force for The CSE Manual’s ninth edition consists of experts throughout the world of scientific publishing who volunteered to revise the manual’s chapters. Most worked in teams of 2 to 4. The chapter editors’ credentials and the chapters these editors revised are listed below.

Kaitlyn Aman Ramm
Senior digital multimedia and graphics coordinator for the Neurology journals at the American Academy of Neurology
Chapter 25
Janaynne do Amaral, PhD
Postdoctoral research associate at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the United States and translations editor for CSE’s quarterly publication, Science Editor
Chapters 1 and 27
Emmanuel A. Ameh, MBBS, FWACS, FACS
Editor in chief of the Journal of West African College of Surgeons, assistant editor in chief of the World Journal of Surgical Infections, founding editor in chief of the Nigerian Journal of Surgical Research, former editor in chief of the Annals of African Medicine and the African Journal of Pediatric Surgery, and professor of pediatric surgery and chief consultant pediatric surgeon at the National Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria
Chapter 2
Jessica S. Ancker, MPH, PhD
Professor and vice chair for educational affairs in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Chapters 12 and 30
Stanley N.C. Anyanwu, MBBS, FMCS, FWACS, FACS, FICS
Professor of surgery (surgical oncology) and director of the Institute of Oncology at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nnewi campus, in Nigeria
Chapter 13
Kenneth April
Senior manager of production in the Publications Department at the American Society of Hematology
Chapter 14
Elizabeth A. Arnold, ELS
Manager of manuscript editing at the Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group
Chapters 6 and 11
Patricia K. Baskin, MS
Executive editor of the Neurology journals at the American Academy of Neurology; CSE’s 2016–2017 president; and 2012–2014 editor of CSE’s quarterly publication, Science Editor
Chapter 21
Kevin R. Brown
Senior manuscript editor at the JAMA Network
Chapter 32
Michelle Cathers, MLS
Production director at the American Pharmacists Association
Chapter 32
Jae Hwa Chang, MA, ELS
Manuscript editor for the South Korean manuscript-editing company InfoLumi
Chapter 27
Soo-Hee Chang, MS, ELS
Manuscript editor for the South Korean manuscript-editing company InfoLumi
Chapter 24
Dana M. Compton
Managing director and publisher at the American Society of Civil Engineers and CSE’s 2019–2020 president
Chapters 4 and 10
Craig Damlo, MSc
Senior manager in human space flight for space systems development at Blue Origin
Chapter 26
Sherri Damlo, MS, ELS
Managing editor at Damlo Edits, former editorial board member and social media editor for CSE’s quarterly publication, Science Editor, and board member of the Space Ecology Workshop
Chapter 26
Heather DiAngelis, MA
Associate director of publications for the Transportation Research Board at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the United States
Chapters 4 and 10
Simona Fernandes, MSc, ELS
Freelance editor and writer in science, technology, engineering, and math in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and 2021 CSE Scholarship recipient
Chapters 27 and 31
Tina L. Fleischer
Quality engineer at Aries Systems Corporation
Chapter 19
Peter J. Freeman, PhD
Lecturer in health care sciences in the Division of Informatics, Imaging and Data Science at the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health of The University of Manchester in the United Kingdom
Chapter 21
Beth E. Hazen, PhD
Principal at Willows End scientific editing and writing
Chapters 22 and 23
Sun Huh, MD, PhD
Professor at Hallym University in South Korea, 2020–2022 president of the Korean Council of Science Editors, and 2020–2023 president of the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors
Chapter 33
Andrew Hunt, PhD
Adjunct associate professor at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and freelance editor of scientific manuscripts
Chapter 1
Jacob Kendall-Taylor
Director of editorial systems at the JAMA Network
Chapter 13
Raymond Lambert, MLS, ELS
Senior managing editor for journals at Duke University Press
Chapters 12 and 17
Trevor Lane, DPhil, PGCELT
Publishing consultant, Hong Kong, and 2022–2027 trustee and 2016–2025 council member of the Committee on Publication Ethics
Chapters 5 and 8
Thomas A. Lang, MA
Principal, Tom Lang Communications and Training International, and CSE’s 2001–2002 president
Chapters 2, 12, and 30
Jessica LaPointe
Managing copy editor at the American Meteorological Society
Chapter 29
Ellen Lazarus, MD, ELS
Freelance copy editor at Lazarus Editing and Consulting, LLC, and volunteer copy editor for CSE’s quarterly publication, Science Editor
Chapter 24
Iris Y. Lo
Deputy managing editor at the JAMA Network
Chapter 29
Rachel J. Lowery
Journal editor for Operative Neurosurgery at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Chapter 6
Audrey Daniel Lusher
Independent contractor at ADL Editorial
Chapters 11 and 31
Amy McPherson
Director of publications at the Botanical Society of America and managing editor of the American Journal of Botany
Chapters 22 and 23
Stephanie Mowat, MA
Manuscript editor at the Canadian Medical Association Journal
Chapter 24
Beva Nall-Langdon
Editor at Biotext Scientific Writing and Editing
Chapters 7 and 20
Kelly Newton
Director of scientific publications at the Society for Neuroscience
Chapters 3 and 29
Joanna Odrowaz
Editorial consultant, technical writer, and writing coach in science and medicine in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Chapter 5
Peter J. Olson, ELS
Freelance manuscript editing coordinator at the JAMA Network
Chapter 29
Heather Poirier, MA
Medical writer II with Technical Resources International
Chapter 9
Andrea Rahkola, ELS
Production editor of the Neurology journals at the American Academy of Neurology
Chapter 9
Dara R. Rochlin
Owner of Dara Rochlin Book Doctor and freelance copy editor for CSE’s quarterly publication, Science Editor
Chapters 5 and 8
David M. Schultz, PhD, FAMS, FRMetS, FGS, SFHEA
Editor in chief of Monthly Weather Review from 2008 to 2022 and professor of synoptic meteorology at The University of Manchester in the United Kingdom
Chapters 25 and 26
Brit Stamey
Associate director of content management at J&J Editorial and 2021–2023 treasurer for the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications
Chapter 8
Julie Steffen, CAE
Chief publishing officer at the American Astronomical Society
Chapter 26
Jessica L. Striley
Journals production manager of Neurosurgery Publications at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Chapter 2
Kristen Swendsrud
Production coordinator for Neurology at the American Academy of Neurology
Chapter 28
Caitlyn Trautwein
Journal editor of Neurosurgery at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Chapter 7
Mary Warner, CAE
Vice president for publishing at the American Pharmacists Association
Chapters 15, 16, 17, and 32

Peer Reviewers

As part of CSE’s commitment to following best practices in scientific publishing, each chapter of the ninth edition was peer reviewed by 1 to 3 experts in scientific publishing. Listed below are the credentials of these volunteer peer reviewers and the chapters they reviewed.

Terry Anderson, ELS, owner of Alan Edits, LLC (Chapter 8)
Tony Alves, senior vice president for product management at HighWire Press (Chapter 33)
Elizabeth A. Bales, MA, senior manuscript editor at The New England Journal of Medicine (Chapter 6)
James W. Bales, PhD, associate director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Edgerton Center in the United States (Chapter 15)
Stacy L. Christiansen, MA, managing editor of JAMA and chair of the AMA Manual of Style (Chapter 27)
Heather DiAngelis, MA, associate director of publications for the Transportation Research Board at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the United States (Chapter 1)
Maryann P. DiEdwardo, MA, EdD, independent writing coach, writer, and editor, as well as adjunct professor of computer science and engineering at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, and adjunct professor of English at the University of Maryland Global Campus (Chapter 4)
Jo Ann M. Eliason, MA, ELS (D), Brookmere Biomedical Writing and Editing, LLC (Chapter 3)
Leah Ellman-Stortz, MS, soil and crop science conservationist (Chapter 25)
Kay Endriss, ELS, MS, NBCT, statistician and former teacher at the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools in North Carolina in the United States (Chapters 12 and 13)
Barbara Meyers Ford, retired consultant and 1997–1998 CSE president (Chapter 1)
Catherine Forrest, ELS, associate director for publications production at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (Chapters 9 and 32)
Barbara Gastel, MD, MPH, ELS (H), professor of veterinary integrative biosciences and of humanities in medicine and director of the Master of Science Program in Science and Technology Journalism at Texas A&M University in the United States, as well as the 1998–2010 editor of CSE’s quarterly publication, Science Editor (Chapter 7)
Sindhoora Bhargavi Gopala Reddy, PhD, ELS, scientific editor at Philip Morris International in Neuchâtel, Switzerland (Chapter 20)
Tamara Hanna, PhD, director of new product innovation at ACS Publications at the American Chemical Society (Chapter 17)
Russell Harper, freelance editor and writer (Chapter 29)
Jan Higgins, PhD, ELS, managing editor of JID Innovations (Chapter 21)
Kristin S. Inman, PhD, ELS, science editor and contractor for Environmental Health Perspectives at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in the United States (Chapter 3)
Renata Iskander, MSc, doctoral degree candidate at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Chapter 6)
Otito Frances Iwuchukwu, PharmD, MA, PhD, FCP, CPTD, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the Fairleigh Dickinson University School of Pharmacy in Florham Park, New Jersey, United States, and 2021–2023 co-chair of CSE’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee (Chapter 20, Section 7.4, and Section 8.3)
Leonard Jack Jr, PhD, MSc, editor in chief of the journal Preventing Chronic Disease at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and 2021–2023 co-chair of CSE’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee (Section 7.4 and Section 8.3)
Jill Jackson, managing editor and publishing administrator of the Annals of Internal Medicine and co-chair of CSE’s Editorial Policy Committee (Chapter 2)
Yateendra Joshi, freelance copy editor and trainer (Chapter 30)
Bill Kasdorf, principal at Kasdorf & Associates, LLC, and founding partner of Publishing Technology Partners (Section 1.4)
Holly Koppel, ACB, CL, senior managing editor for peer review for the American Society of Civil Engineers’ journals (Chapter 28)
Thomas A. Lang, MA, principal, Tom Lang Communications and Training International, and CSE’s 2001–2002 president (Chapter 2)
Kristin Mitchell, assistant managing editor of Arthritis Care & Research, an official journal of the American College of Rheumatology (Chapter 31)
Natalie Ngo, managing editor of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (Chapter 5)
Joanna Odrowaz, editorial consultant, technical writer, and writing coach in science and medicine in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Chapter 7)
Karla D. Passalacqua, PhD, MWC, ELS, lead—medical writing and education at Henry Ford Health in Detroit, Michigan, United States (Chapters 22 and 23)
Katie Petronella, editing operations lead for the American Chemical Society’s Journals Publishing Group (Chapter 16)
R. Michelle Sauer Gehring, PhD, ELS, senior research scientist in the Department of Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in the United States (Chapter 11)
Michele Springer, CMPP, deputy director of medical editing at Caudex, an IPG Health company (Chapter 14)
Jürgen Stohner, PhD, FRSC, professor of physical chemistry at the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management at the Zürich University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland (Chapters 18 and 19)
Havah Strickler, senior medical copy editor at Shoreland, Inc (Chapter 11)
William S. Strong, JD, author of The Copyright Book: A Practical Guide and a partner at the law firm Kotin, Crabtree & Strong, LLP, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States (Chapter 3)
Ann Tennier, ELS, managing editor at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas in the United States (Chapter 10)
Nadja Torres, MD, MPH, board-certified ophthalmologist at the Howerton Eye Clinic in Austin, Texas, United States (Chapter 24)

Unending thanks go to Mary Laur, executive editor at The University of Chicago Press, for her constant support, guidance, and patience throughout this adventure. Much gratitude also goes to Laur’s team of Russell Harper and Mollie McFee. Throughout the development process, Harper lent his expertise from revising The Chicago Manual of Style. In addition, Harper’s peer review of The CSE Manual’s Chapter 29, “References,” enhanced the outstanding work that the chapter’s editors did in revising and simplifying the manual’s rules on in-text and end references. To McFee goes the credit for managing all of the new and reused artwork in the ninth edition.

Among the others at The University of Chicago Press to whom CSE owes a vote of thanks are Jenni Fry, managing editor, Christine Schwab, assistant managing editor, and Jenny Ringblom, associate marketing director for reference works. Fry and Schwab shepherded the manual through copyediting and production, while Ringblom focused on promoting the manual to authors and editors in the science community.

A great debt is owed to Dana M. Compton, who as the CSE Board of Directors’ liaison guided this project through the Board and represented CSE’s interests to The University of Chicago Press. Finally, all those who served on the CSE Board of Directors during the years that the ninth edition was being revised should be lauded for their steadfast support of this style manual.

Michael E. Fitzgerald, CAE

Project manager for The CSE Manual

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