The Elsevier Copyediting Specification for Authors Version: 3.2 The Complete Reference Guide to the Elsevier Copyediting Specification for Authors Author: Caroline Jones Email: [email protected] Version Date: 01 Aug 2019 Contents 1. Audience ..................................................................................................................................................................... 3 2. Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................ 3 3. Reference to other documents .................................................................................................................................... 3 3.1. General issues not covered by this document – Chicago Manual of Style ....................................................................... 3 3.2. Style guides ....................................................................................................................................................................... 3 3.3. Dictionaries ....................................................................................................................................................................... 3 3.4. General style reference for medical and nursing titles ...................................................................................................... 3 4. Core information ........................................................................................................................................................ 4 4.1. Chapter opening pages ...................................................................................................................................................... 4 4.1.1. Contributor names and affiliations ............................................................................................................................... 4 4.2. Variations in English spelling and grammar (UK, US) .................................................................................................... 4 4.3. Basic usage ............................................................................................................................................................................... 4 4.4. Italics and bold ...................................................................................................................................................................... 5 4.5. Commas and “that” / “which” ........................................................................................................................................... 5 4.6. Quotes / extracts and single / double quotation marks ...................................................................................................... 6 4.7. Capitalization .................................................................................................................................................................... 6 4.8. Register marks and trademarks ......................................................................................................................................... 6 4.9. Names of drugs .............................................................................................................................................................. 7 4.10. Abbreviated genus names ................................................................................................................................................. 7 4.11. Percent ............................................................................................................................................................................... 7 4.12. Headings ........................................................................................................................................................................... 7 4.12.1. Number and ordering of headings ......................................................................................................................... 7 4.13. Plurals .................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 4.14. Abbreviations, acronyms, possessives and contractions ................................................................................................. 7 4.14.1. Abbreviations in common usage .................................................................................................................................. 9 4.15. Numerals ........................................................................................................................................................................... 9 4.16. Units of measurement .............................................................................................................................................................. 9 4.17. Dates and time ................................................................................................................................................................. 10 4.18. En dash ............................................................................................................................................................................ 10 4.19. Em dash ........................................................................................................................................................................... 11 4.20. Hyphens .................................................................................................................................................................................. 11 4.21. Geographic references ..................................................................................................................................................... 12 4.22. Displayed and run-on (run-in) lists ..................................................................................................................................... 12 4.22.1. Punctuation in run-on lists ........................................................................................................................................ 12 4.22.2. Punctuation in displayed lists ................................................................................................................................... 12 4.22.3. The use of bullets or numbers for displayed lists .................................................................................................. 12 4.23. Tables and boxes ............................................................................................................................................................. 13 4.23.1. Table footnotes ...................................................................................................................................................... 13 4.23.2. Data sources and credit lines ................................................................................................................................. 14 4.23.3. Table body text ...................................................................................................................................................... 14 4.23.4. Tables with totals ................................................................................................................................................... 14 4.23.5. Units of measure .................................................................................................................................................... 14 4.24. Figures ............................................................................................................................................................................. 14 4.24.1. Figure legends: Content .............................................................................................................................................. 14 4.24.2. Style and punctuation ............................................................................................................................................ 15 4.24.3. Sources .................................................................................................................................................................. 15 4.24.4. Scale bars ............................................................................................................................................................... 15 4.24.5. Halftones ............................................................................................................................................................... 15 © Elsevier 1 [Click for Contents Page] The Elsevier Copyediting Specification for Authors Version: 3.2 4.24.6. Color and colorful e-products ................................................................................................................................ 15 4.25. Permissions ..................................................................................................................................................................... 15 4.25.1. Figures ................................................................................................................................................................... 15 4.25.2. Tables ...................................................................................................................................................................