Bjorn Gustavii

How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific Paper

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The third edition of this compact, easy-to-read book contains essential advice on how to take a manuscript from planning right through to publication. Detailing examples of good versus bad practice, this user-friendly volume shows both first-time writers and more experienced authors how to write, illustrate and prepare a scientific paper.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 3 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781316607916
• ISBN-10: 1316607917
• Artikelnr.: 44546108

Autorenporträt

Björn Gustavii has been teaching courses in scientific writing for doctoral (PhD) students in medicine for over twenty-five years. He brings his personal experience to this book, both from writing more than 100 of his own research papers and from his work as a journal editor.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the third edition
Acknowledgements
1. Basic rules of writing
2. Comments on scientific writing
3. Drafting the manuscript
4. Choosing a journal
5. How to begin
6. Figure captions (legends)
7. Preparing a graph
8. Graph combination
9. Drawings
10. How to design a table
11. Title
12. Authors
13. Abstract
14. Introduction
15. Methods
16. Results
17. Discussion
18. Acknowledgements
19. References
20. PhD and other doctoral theses
21. Letters and case reports
22. Numbers
23. Abbreviations
24. How to present statistical results
25. Typing
26. Dealing with editors and referees
27. Correcting proofs
28. Authors' responsibility
Literature needed on your desk
Further reading
Literature cited
Index.