WRITING AND WRITERS: TECHNICAL WRITING : WRITING AND WRITERS: GUIDES AND HANDBOOKS: How to Write a Paper in Scientific Journal Style and Format
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WRITING AND WRITERS: TECHNICAL WRITING :
WRITING AND WRITERS: GUIDES AND HANDBOOKS:
How to Write a Paper in Scientific Journal Style and Format
How to Write a Paper in Scientific Journal Style and Format
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Contents
About This Guide
How to Use This Guide
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Introduction to Journal-Style Scientific Writing
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biology/resources/writing/HTWgeneral.html>
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| Get Your Thoughts Organized | Who is Your Audience? | Prose and Style |
Abbreviations and Tense | First vs. Third Person | Use Active Verbs |
References | Plagiarism
The Structure, Format, Content, and Style of a
Journal-Style Scientific Paper
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biology/resources/writing/HTWsections.html>
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| Rationale | Sections | Section Headings | Title | Authors and
Affiliation | Abstract| Introduction| Methods| Results| Discussion |
Acknowledgments| Literature Cited | Appendices
Almost Everything You Wanted to Know About Making Tables and Figures
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resources/writing/HTWtablefigs.html>
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Definitions | Getting Organized | Referencing from Text | Abbreviation of
"Fig." | Numbering Figures and Tables | Placement in paper | Legends |
Legend Postion | Anatomy of a table | Anatomy of a graph |
Compound Figures | Bar Graphs | Frequency Histograms | Scatterplots |
Line Graphs |
Reporting Statistical Results in Your Paper
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| Overview | Descriptive Statistics | Inferential Statistics |
How to Cite Other Sources in Your Paper
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resources/writing/HTWcitations.html>
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| Citations in the body of the paper | Full Citation Rules in Lit. Cited |
Journals | Books | Thesis | WWW | Personal Communication | DO NOTS
How to Write Latin Names of Species
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biology/resources/writing/HTWlatin.html>
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Binomial Nomenclature | Rules for Latin names | Using common names |
The Metric System, Abbreviations, and Conversions
for Common Units of Measure
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| Rules for Use of Abbreviations | The Metric System |
Length and Distance | Volume | Liquid Volumes | Mass | Area |
Temperature | Pressure || Humidity | Concentration | Salinity | pH | Time
On Line Unit Converter:
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Content Sample:
Standard Text Citation Formats
There are exceptions among the various journals, but generally, in
biological journals, the most frequent types of citations are shown in the
following examples (in red):
"It has been found that male mice react to estrogen treatment by a
reduction in phase three of courtship behavior (Gumwad 1952:209; Bugjuice
1970). Click and Clack (1974) demonstrated that mice treated with
synthetic estrogen analogs react similarly. The reduction in phase three
courtship behavior may also be linked to nutritional status (Anon. 1996;
Bruhahauser et al 1973)."
Note the following:
Typically, only the last name of the author(s) and the year of publication
are given,e.g., Bugjuice 1970. Your Literature Cited section will contain
the complete reference, and the reader can look it up there.
Notice that the reference to the book has a page number (Gumwad 1952:209).
This is to facilitate a reader's finding the reference in a long
publication such as a book (not done for journal articles). The paper by
Bugjuice (1970) is short, and if readers want to find the referenced
information, they would not have as much trouble.
For two author papers, give both authors' last names (e.g., Click and
Clack 1974). Articles with more than two authors are cited by the first
authors last name followed "and others" or "et al.", and then the year.
When a book, paper, or article has no identifiable author, cite it as
Anon. Year, e.g., (Anon. 1996) (Anon. is the abbreviation for anonymous).
See Full Citation.
If you want reference a paper found in another article, do so as follows:
(Driblick 1923, in Oobleck 1978).
A string of citations should be separated by semicolons, e.g., (Gumwad
1952:209; Bugjuice 1970; Bruhahauser et al 1973).
Finally, you should note the placement of the period AFTER the
parenthetical citation - the citation, too, is part of a sentence,e.g.,
"...courtship behavior (Gumwad 1952:209; Bugjuice 1970)."
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