Welcome to the APS Online Style Manual

Introduction to the Style Manual

• Purpose
• How to Use the Manual

The Fundamentals of Copyediting

• To Change or Not to Change
• Who Has the Last Word?
• Zen and the Art of Queries
• The Angry Author

Formatting APS Journal Articles
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• Synopsis
• Using the Toolkit
• Title Page
  • File Line
  • Title Line
  • DOI Number
  • Author Line
  • Affiliation Line
  • Short Title
  • Abstract
  • Key Words
• Main Text
  • Headers
  • Paragraph Breaks and Flushed Text
  • Lists and Outlines
  • Equations
  • Introduction
  • Materials and Methods
  • Results
  • Discussion
• Glossaries and Appendixes
  • Glossary
  • Appendix
• Credits Section
  • Note Added In Proof
  • Acknowledgements
  • Grants
  • Disclaimers
  • Disclosures
• References
  • Basic Information
  • The Reference Author Line
  • The Reference Title Line
  • Sample References
    • Sample Journal Reference
    • Corrigenda and Errata
    • Sample Book Reference
    • Sample PhD Thesis/Dissertation Reference
    • Proceedings, Meetings, and Symposia
    • Internet Citations
• Figures
• Tables
• Footnotes
  • Contact Information Footnote
  • Equal Contribution Footnote
  • Deceased Author Footnote
  • Footnotes Provided By the Author
• Supplemental Information
• Special Cases
  • Call For Papers
  • Editorial
  • Editorial Focus
  • Essays on Classic Papers
  • In Focus
  • Innovative Methodology
  • Invited Review
  • Letter to the Editor
  • Perspective
  • Point-Counterpoint
  • Report
  • Review
  • Special Lectures/Awards
  • Special Medical Editorial
  • Theme
  • Translational Physiology
• Corrigendum

APS House Style
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• APS House Style
• Overview of APS Coding in the Text
• Overview of APS Style of the Text
• Font Types
• Punctuation
• Parentheses, Brackets, and Braces
• Mathematics
• Complex Coding
• Hand Editing

Resources
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• Synopsis
• Undefined Abbreviation List
• Toolkit Code Reference
• Common Mathematic Variables
• Units of Measurement
• Common Abbreviations
• Amino Acids
• Common Experimental Animals