Publishing Resources for STEM Authors: Scientific Writing Guides

Below is a list of books and other resources giving pointers on technical and scientific writing, including citation/style guides.

To find more books like these, use UC Library Search. To search terms as a phrase, enclose them in quotation marks. Example: "Technical writing" To search multiple forms of a word, add an asterisk to the root of the desired term. Example: scien* will search: science, sciences, scientific. To hone in on a specific discipline, add a term for the subject area to your search, such as chemistry, engineering, life sciences, medical sciences, mathematics.

Suggested terms:

• "Academic writing"
• "Scientific writing"
• "Technical writing"
• "Proposal writing"
• "Report writing"
• "Scholarly communication"
• "Scholarly publishing"
• Authorship
• "Communication in science"
• "Communication in engineering"
• Presentation
• Lectures and lecturing
• "Academic dissertations" or "Dissertations, Academic"
• "Academic theses"

The search box on the UCSB Library website directs you to the Simple Search for UC Library Search by typing a title or one or more words into this search box will return results that contain all or part of your specified terms. Once you have been directed to your results from the UCSB Library website, you will find this Simple Search box remains at the top of your screen. 

When you type into the Simple Search box at the top of your screen, you will be given a drop-down menu with a variety of scoping options.

Scoping Options:  

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