How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific Paper 2nd Edition by Bjorn Gustavii ISBN 052187890X 9780521878906

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ISBN 10: 052187890X 
ISBN 13: 9780521878906
Author: Bjorn Gustavii

How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific Paper 2nd Table of contents:

1 Basic rules of writing

• Brevity

• Logic and clarity

• Clean typing

2 Comments on scientific language

• English as a foreign language

• Follow the “leitmotif”

• Verbosity

• He/she

• Active or passive voice

• Tense

• Noun clusters and modifiers

• Prevalence and incidence

• Avoid the use of “respectively”

• The “and/or” construction

• Unnecessary hedging

• How old is young?

• Avoid synonyms to achieve elegant variation

• The remote verb

3 Drafting the manuscript

• Write down your thoughts as they arise

• Where and when to write?

• How it can work in practice

• The other way around

• Handwriting or word processing?

4 Choosing a journal

• Instructions to authors

5 Preparing a graph

• The line graph

• Relationship between the lengths of the axes

• Labeling axes

• The chart

• Before submission

6 Drawings

7 Figure legends

8 How to design tables

• The descriptive title

• The declarative title

• Rounding off

• Table or graph?

• Typing the table

9 Title

• Whenever possible, use a declarative rather than a neutral title

• Titles ending with a question mark

• Begin with the keywords

• Use verbs instead of abstract nouns

• Avoid abbreviations in the title

• A title for your thesis

• Running title

10 Authors

• Guidelines on authorship

• The contributors list

• A question of coauthorship

11 Abstract

• The conventional abstract

• The structured abstract

12 Introduction

13 Methods

• The subjects

• Informed consent

• Omissions in reporting of randomized controlled trials

• Randomization

• Blinding

• Number of subjects

• A checklist

14 Results

• Participant flow and follow-up

• Dropouts

• Loss of participants to follow-up

• Details of randomized participants

• Study outcome

15 Discussion

• Evaluate the results – not the authors

• Avoid claiming priority

• The reference-13 trick

16 Acknowledgments

• Always give credit for financial support

17 References

• Vancouver versus Harvard style?

• The Vancouver system – also called the numbering system

• The Harvard system – also called the name-and-year system

• Accuracy of references and quotations

• Your own author name

• Chinese names

• Anonymous

• Record titles in the language of publication

• Names of journals

• How to refer to World Wide Web

18 Ph.D. and other doctoral theses

• Compilations: the theses of the future

• Contributors

• Thesis at a glance

• General introduction

• Aims

• Methods and results

• General discussion

• Acknowledgments

• Cover illustration

• A fresh look

• The structure of the thesis overview

19 Letters and case reports

• The thalidomide letter

• Format and size of a letter

• Transforming a paper into a letter

• Case reports

• Format and size of case reports

20 Numbers

• Two numbers side by side

• Decimal point

• Thousands

• Numbers with several zeros

• Quotients of units

• Percentages

• Rounding to two significant digits

• Enumeration

• What do we mean by “often”?

21 Abbreviations

• Units of measure

• General principles

22 How to present statistical results

• Using mean when median is meant

• Using standard error instead of standard deviation

• Failure to distinguish between statistical significance and biological importance

• Selected presentation of multiple statistical testing

• Overinterpretation of subgroup effects

• Using relative instead of absolute figures

• Some further comments

• The ± sign

• P < 0.05 = the truth

23 Typing

• “Twain spacing”

• 12-point Times

• Avoid using block capitals

• Up-and-down-style versus down style

• Do not mimic the journal’s style

• The length of the manuscript

• The importance of punctuation

24 Dealing with editors and referees

• Do referees delay?

• Unpublished work

• Shortening the manuscript

• Accepted or rejected

25 Correcting proofs

• How to read proof

• What to correct

• Correction marks

• Electronic proof

26 Authors’ responsibilities

• Subjects’ right to privacy

• Duplicate submission

• Borrowing published material

• Saving your original data

• Literature needed on your desk

• On phraseology

• On synonyms

• On manuscript preparation

• On how to abbreviate a journal’s title

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