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
• Main Text
• Glossaries and Appendixes
• Credits Section
• References
• Figures
• Tables
• Footnotes
• Supplemental Information
• Special Cases
• Corrigendum

APS House Style
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• Synopsis
• Overview of APS Coding in the Text
• Overview of APS Style of the Text
• Font Types
  • Small Caps
  • Italics
  • Bold
• Punctuation
  • Commas
  • Colons
  • Semicolons
  • Hyphens
  • Dashes
  • Apostrophes
  • Quotation Marks
• Parentheses, Brackets, and Braces
  • Grammar Usage of Parentheses, Brackets, and Braces
  • Mathematic Usage of Parentheses, Brackets, and Braces
• Mathematics
  • Numbers
  • Units
• Complex Coding
• Hand Editing
  • Equations
  • Tables

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