Academic Authorship: How Many Authors Are Too Many?
Publishing in academic journals remains the principal way to communicate scientific findings to the public and research community. Authorship on a manuscript is representative of…
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Journal formatting guidelines and style requirements
How to Handle Author Names in APA Style
The APA Style uses a basic author-date citation style, where cited references are then listed in an APA Style Reference List, but what happens when the names get complicated?…
Improving Biomedical Research Reporting With STROBE Statement
Biomedical research is often based on observational studies, so it is important that all observations are carried out carefully and reported in an appropriate way to ensure that…
Manuscript Status: Things You Need to Know After Submission
Your manuscript has been accepted, so what happens next? Generally, this is a three-step process: manuscript submission, peer review, and post-acceptance preparation. After a…
Best Practices for Using Headline Case
When people read in a hurry (especially when reading online material), they mostly skim through the details and pay attention only to the headlines. Headlines are the signposts…
Decoding Revisions to the 8th Edition of the MLA Style Guide
There are many protocols in academic writing because of style guides that are focused towards a specific discipline. For example, the Chicago Manual of Style, created by the…
The Academic Writer’s Toolkit: Creating and Using Style Sheets
One of the most daunting aspects of academic writing is consistency. When drafting an article, it is easy to forget a writing rule that has been set by the publisher (for example,…
Things to Consider Before Submitting a Manuscript
Nowadays there are a plethora of journals for a researcher to choose from. Some journals are online only, others are online as well as print-based; some are prestigious, while…
A Quick Guide to the APA Style Manual
Advancing towards its 10th decade, the APA Style is one of the hallmark features of academic writing to acknowledge the source of any information included in a scholarly article.…
Unique Intricacies of the MLA Style Guide
In general, there are a certain set of standards that are put in place when writing and constructing documents. This set of standards is referred to as a style guide and is used…
Writing a Cover Letter for Journal Submission
One of the most neglected aspects of journal submission is the cover letter. Although it may seem like a formality, the cover letter is actually an important part of the submission…
Numbers in Writing: Guidelines for Life Sciences and Medicine (Part 3)
We hope that by now you are familiar with number conventions in formal writing. You can refer to Part 1 and Part 2 in this series, for a quick recap.
In this post, we will…