Scientific Writing: Easy When You Know How by Jennifer Peat, Elizabeth Elliott, Louise Baur, Victoria

By Jennifer Peat, Elizabeth Elliott, Louise Baur, Victoria Keena

Univ. of Sydney, Australia. accomplished guide offers a step by step approach for changing into released within the biomedical box. issues comprise medical writing, getting begun, completing the paper, punctuation, help structures, writing sort, and grammar. offers highlights in two-tone tables and containers. Softcover.

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Some journals resist figures and prefer tables, some journals resist the use of percentages and prefer you to give both the numerators and denominators in the tables, and some journals have a limit on the number of tables, figures, or citations that they will accept. Some journals request that you check your spelling using the Oxford English Dictionary, others specify the Macquarie Dictionary or Webster’s Dictionary. It is best to know about the quirks of your journal of first choice so that you can adopt their format early in the piece.

Over 4500 journals in 30 languages are currently listed in Index Medicus (www2) and more than 150 scientific journal articles are published each day. Despite these daunting statistics, it is always best to write with a specific journal in mind. The first question to ask yourself is what type of audience you want to reach. It is important to make an initial decision about whether you want to publish in a general, clinical, or speciality journal, or in a journal that publishes the results of basic science.

It is also a good idea to add “I also declare that I have no conflict of interest in connection with this paper other than any noted in the covering letter to the editor”. If these statements are completed on separate pages and left undated, they can be used if the paper is rejected and then submitted to another journal. Authors must have independence and must be accountable. There have been cases where pharmaceutical companies have applied undue pressure on researchers to avoid publishing data that suggest that their products are inferior or ineffective.

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