Handbook of scientific editing for editors and journalists

Thanks to the IWETEL mailing list and Julio Alonso, we have access to this science editing manual that aims to draw lessons from those who specialize in writing and editing scientific texts to offer their ideas, knowledge, advice, and resources to all content creators.

This handbook aims to help ensure that science journalism meets the highest standards of quality, regardless of publication or audience.

The handbook’s full name is the KSJ Handbook of Science Editing, a project of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, supported by the Kavli Foundation, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. It aims to draw lessons from those who specialize in science writing and editing to offer their insights, knowledge, advice, and resources to all editors in general. The goal is to help ensure that science journalism meets the highest standards of quality, regardless of publication or audience.

The handbook is designed to enable editors to ask the right questions, to enable them to spot reporting flaws or faulty science, and to provide information on best practices for reporting science and the many issues, now more critical than ever.