We thank the alert users of the style manual who have brought these errors and other concerns to our attention. If you find errors that have not been listed here, please contact Peggy Robinson, c/o Council of Biology Editors, 11250 Roger Bacon Drive, Suite 8, Reston, Virginia 20190-5202; fax, 703/435-4390.
Note: Both types of errors are corrected in subsequent printings of the book. Therefore, some or all of the corrections appearing here may have been made in your copy, depending on how recently you purchased SSF.
Page |
Section |
Correction |
5 |
1·2, continued from previous page |
Last line under "Simplifying style rules": change comma after number 10 to em-dash |
179 |
9·10 |
Last line of section: change semicolon to comma |
194 |
Table 11·1 |
Footnote a: change "multiples" to "multiplies" |
198 |
11·5, continued from previous page |
Line 6 this page: change "1.4" to "0.4" |
202 |
Table 11·4 |
Entry "Frequency", column 4: change "s-2" to "s-1" |
203 |
Table 11·5 |
Last line: change "10-244" to "10-24" |
208 |
Table 11·8 |
Column 1, entry 7: change "sinh-11 x" to "sinh-1 x" |
211 |
11·18, continued from previous page |
Example 4 in text at bottom of page: captial bold italic B for the product of a tensor and a vector should be in same font as
capital bold italic B for scalar product of 2 vectors (serif, not sans serif) in the same list of examples |
240 |
13·13, continued from previous page |
Third set of examples: change "lat 45°79'-" to "lat 45°29'-" Last sentence: replace ellipsis with "of the United States of America" |
241 |
13·14 |
Paragraph 3, line 3: change "meters" to "m" |
285 |
Table 16·3 |
Column 1, heading: change "pyridimines" to "pyrimidines" |
308 |
17·5 |
Line 1: change "themodynamic" to "thermodynamic" |
313 |
17·10, continued from previous page |
Line 6 under heading "Enzyme activity": change "mol sec-1" to "mol s-1" |
335 |
Contents listing, continued from previous page |
Line 6 from top of this page: change "cerevisae" to "cerevisiae" |
352 |
20·19 |
Line 5 under heading "The centimorgan": add a space in the term "1cM" (should be "1 cM") |
354 |
20·21, continued from previous page |
Second example from top of page: change "D14F23S2" to "D14F23S1" (last character changes from 2 to 1) |
357 |
Table 20·4 |
Column 3, entry 8: change "lacZp" to "lacZa" (note that entry 5 in the same column is correct as printed) |
357 |
Table 20·4 |
Column 2, last entry: move the expression "(Col E1)" to column 3; note that the parentheses must be retained |
357 |
20·26, continued from previous page |
Last paragraph on the page, line 2: change the word "lowercase" to "uppercase" and change lowercase greek letter delta appearing within parentheses to uppercase greek letter delta |
389 |
21·7, continued from previous page |
Third last line: change "or" to "and" |
390 |
21·10 |
Sample of typical format, lines 5 and 13: change letter "x" to multiplication symbol (3 times in total) |
414 |
Table 23·1 |
Table title: delete footnote designation "a" |
428 |
23·17 |
Line 4: change "greges" to "grexes" |
436 |
Table 23·4 |
Column 1, lines 12 and 17: change character that appears to be a numeral "1" (one) with subscript numeral 1 or 2 to lowercase Greek letter
lambda (2 places in each entry); this correction should also be made in the corresponding entries in column 2 (2 places in each entry)
Column 1, line 15: change "Special" to "Spectral"
Column 2, entry 1: delete the final character (superscript "y")
Column 2, last entry: delete the final character (superscript "w") |
459 |
Table 24·3 |
Delete last line of top part of table ("Main symbols"), which begins with the word "work" |
469 |
24·27 |
First example at bottom of page: add an overdot to the variable "V" in the expression "VCO2"
|
542 |
Table 27·5 |
Fourth last line: change "interferomety" to "interferometry" |
644 |
30·35 |
Paragraph 1, line 9: Change "Turino" to "Torino" |
697 |
31·26 |
Paragraph 1, line 1: change "then" to "than" |
772 |
Index, entry for "ampere" |
Change "201t" to "202t" |
775 |
Index, subentry for "forthcoming documents" (in column 2) |
Change "671-702" to "671" |
778 |
Index, entry for "candela" |
Change "201t" to "202t" |
796 |
Index, entries for "kelvin" and "kilogram(s)" |
Change "201t" to "202t" |
799 |
Index, entries for "meter" and "mole" |
Change "201t" to "202t" |
807 |
Index, entry for "plural(s)" |
Delete "85-86" (leave "85-94" in place) |
807 |
Index, subentry for "abbreviations" under "plural(s)", column 2, second-last line of page |
Add "91-92" (will read "91-92, 184") |
810 |
Index, entry for "pyridimines" |
Delete (this entry is for a misspelled word; see correction to table heading on page 285) |
810 |
Index, column 2, last 4 lines |
Entries from "rad" to "radiant flux" should not be indented |
810 |
Index, entry for "radian" |
Change "201t" to "202t" |
811 |
Index, column 1, first 2 lines |
Entries "radiant intensity" and "radiation" should not be indented |
812 |
Index, entry for "second" |
Change "201t" to "202t" |
814 |
Index, entry for "sp. (spp.)" |
Delete "87" (leave other page numbers in place) |
814 |
Index, entry for "steradian" |
Change "201t" to "202t" |
