Book contents
- How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific PaperThird Edition
- How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific Paper
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface to the third edition
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Basic rules of writing
- 2 Comments on scientific language
- 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 tables
- 11 Title
- 12 Authors
- 13 Abstract
- 14 Introduction
- 15 Methods
- 16 Results
- 17 Discussion
- 18 Acknowledgments
- 19 References
- 20 Ph.D. 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’ responsibilities
- Literature needed on your desk
- Further reading
- Literature cited
- Index
- References
Further reading
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2017
Book contents
- How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific PaperThird Edition
- How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific Paper
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface to the third edition
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Basic rules of writing
- 2 Comments on scientific language
- 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 tables
- 11 Title
- 12 Authors
- 13 Abstract
- 14 Introduction
- 15 Methods
- 16 Results
- 17 Discussion
- 18 Acknowledgments
- 19 References
- 20 Ph.D. 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’ responsibilities
- Literature needed on your desk
- Further reading
- Literature cited
- Index
- References
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