The CSE Manual, Ninth Edition: 10 Years in the Making

It may be hard to believe, but it's been a decade since the release of the eighth edition of Scientific Style and Format, CSE's longstanding and indispensable reference manual for a wide range of scientific publishing organizations and professionals. Now, on the eve of the 2024 Annual Meeting, CSE is poised to release the ninth edition of the manual—and to say that this accomplishment "took a village" would be quite the understatement. Four dozen chapter editors, almost as many peer reviewers, and a core advisory group—all of whom, in aggregate, represent an astonishing breadth of scholarly publishing experience and expertise—devoted an immeasurable number of collective hours over the past several years to painstakingly review, revisit, and revise the manual's content to ensure that it is as up-to-date as possible. In partnership with the expert production team at The University of Chicago Press, this team of science editing specialists has made great strides in updating the manual's content to reflect the most current trends of terminology, usage, practical application, and operational guidance, both within the framework of the scientific community and the world at large. The extent to which chapters have been revised runs the gamut from minimal to considerable. Whereas some chapters required little alteration, others have undergone substantial modifications in terms of structure and content. Michael E Fitzgerald, project manager for the ninth edition, has penned a preface that provides users with a comprehensive and thorough overview of the manual's most noteworthy revisions and enhancements,1 and readers who purchase […]