Before formally submitting to a journal, you can contact the editor describing what you would like to get published. This is known as a presubmission
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Category: Manuscript Preparation
Author or contributor? The A to Z of authorship
The average number of authors on scientific articles has increased 5-fold over the last 100 years, from one author per paper in 1913 to more
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Journals often struggle to find willing reviewers, which can lengthen the publication process. To combat this, you may be requested to suggest reviewers at the
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Active versus passive voice in scientific writing
The active voice promotes simple, straightforward writing. As such, most scientific journals encourage the use of the active voice over the passive voice [1]. Active voice –
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How to prevent plagiarism
In this blog, our guest blogger, Professor Emeritus Dolores Takemoto from Kansas State University discusses plagiarism in scientific documents: what it is, what the penalties
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Effective scientific writing – Tips to help you write better research papers
In this infographic, we provide some useful tips to help you write better research papers. The infographic contains the following text: Title Keep the title
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Verb tenses in scientific manuscripts
A key aspect of producing a well-written scientific manuscript worthy of publication is the use of appropriate verb tenses in the different sections of the
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Tips for writing sentences about science
Make your writing clear Say what you mean For example, the sentence The observed changes in the gut microbiota caused inflammation in the mice. suggests
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“Many of our references are published in Chinese. Will this be a problem?”
his question was asked in the Q&A session of a recent talk on the topic of scientific publishing presented by International Science Editing in China. In this
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How to write an introduction to a research report
In this blog, our guest blogger, Professor Emeritus Dolores Takemoto from Kansas State University discusses how to write an introduction. A thorough introduction is a
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