Good Reference Management Tools for Manuscripts and Theses
All scientists know that to get published, they must have novel data. Therefore, when a researcher designs experiments and writes manuscripts, information and use of previous…
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Graphical Abstracts for Presenting Results
A graphical abstract is used to sum up a manuscript’s results in one neat little package so that the person reading the research paper can see the results at a glance without…
Rapid Communication: Prestige and Priority in Scientific Publication
A Rapid Communication (RC) or Short Communication is a scientific paper that is published swiftly and is of a shorter length than an original research article. Scientists use this…
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…
12 Tips to Reduce Manuscript Word Count
Have you experienced writing a manuscript that seems to go on and on, is exceedingly verbose, and repeats ideas and words throughout the document? Have you been asked to reduce the…
How to Write a Successful Research Proposal
A research proposal is essentially a plan for work in order to test a hypothesis or set of hypotheses in order to answer a research question. One of the most important things to…
How Significant is Statistical Significance?
A problem of reproducibility has begun to emerge among researchers around the world. As scientists study increasingly complex systems with multiple variables, there will certainly…
Writing Your Results in Manuscripts: How to Share Research Data
Researchers publish scientific manuscripts to present data collected during experiments and to speculate on their significance. In doing so, manuscripts document the process of…
Learning the Art of Crafting Effective Research Grant Proposals
Most academic researchers must find funding from outside their home institutions for at least a portion of their work. The organizations that fund research through grants typically…
Navigating the Grant Development Process
There are different sources of funding for scientific research. These include government agencies, research and development companies, and charitable organizations. Today, the…
Open Citations: Who’s Citing Who in Peer Reviewed Journals?
Scholars and publishers of open access journals alike thrive on the constant publication and dissemination of research. At its core, journal articles represent the advancement of…
Writing Your First Case Report
Case reports have been described as being inferior and the weakest level of clinical evidence. While it is true that a journal case report cannot supersede the power of a clinical…