Revised Style Manual Available to Purchase

ASECOND and revised edition of the Style Manual for guidance in the preparation of papers for journals published by the Institute will be issued in the spring of 1958. Since April 1951, when the first edition was published, new developments and practices have made necessary certain changes in the standard treatment in physics journals of abbreviations, terminology, compound words, and other items. New material, including additional symbols now available in type for in Institute journals, has been added in the draft version of the second edition, and portions of the work have been rewritten to provide the clearest possible guide for authors of physics papers in order that delays in processing final manuscripts may be reduced to minimum. The revised Style Manual, which has largely been made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation, is scheduled to appear about June 1st. Both the first and the revised editions were prepared under the direction of the Publication Board the American Institute of Physics.