Recommended Spelling List

Many words in regular usage, as well as many technical terms, have two or more acceptable spellings. The following list gives recommended spellings and capitalizations, where appropriate, for some terms not found in easily accessible dictionaries, words often misspelled, common expressions, and words for which the ACS preference may not match your dictionary s. 

Bronsted Buchner build up (verb) buildup (noun) buret 

Erlenmeyer (flask) exchangeable fall off (verb) falloff (noun, adjective) 

This chapter presents recommended stylistic and editorial conventions, mainly but not solely for ACS publications. The style recommended by ACS is, for the most part, taken from established authoritative sources, such as The Chicago Manual of Style, Words into Type, and the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual. 

Other points of style are discussed in Chapter 11, Numbers, Mathematics, and Units of Measure Chapter 12, Names and Numbers for Chemical Compounds and Chapter 13, Conventions in Chemistry . 

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A list of ACS-recommended abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols is given in Appendix 10-2. Check the list to find an abbreviation. If no abbreviation is listed for the term you are using, you may devise an abbreviation provided that (1) it is not identical to an abbreviation of a unit of measure, (2) it will not be confused with the symbol of an element or a group, (3) it does not hamper the reader s understanding, and (4) you do not use the same abbreviation for more than one spelled-out form. 

Verify spelling, wording, listed equipment tag numbers, fluid compositions, units of measurement, etc. of each report, especially the recommendations. 

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