Scientific Writing: Easy When You Know How by Jennifer Peat, Elizabeth Elliott, Louise Baur and Victoria Keena

Scientific Writing Easy when you know how Scientific Writing Easy when you know how Jennifer Peat Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney and Hospital Statistician, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia Elizabeth Elliott Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney and Consultant Paediatrician, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia Louise Baur Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney and Consultant Paediatrician The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia Victoria Keena Information Manager, Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Sydney, Australia © BMJ Books 2002 BMJ Books is an imprint of the BMJ Publishing Group All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording and/or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers. First published in 2002 by BMJ Books, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JR www.bmjbooks.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 7279 1625 4 Typeset by SIVA Math Setters, Chennai, India Printed and bound in Spain by GraphyCems, Navarra Contents Introduction xi Acknowledgements xii Foreword xiii 1 Scientific writing 1 Reasons to publish 1 Rewards for being a good writer 3 Making it happen 5 Achieving creativity 7 Thought, structure and style 8 The thrill of acceptance 9 2 Getting started 12 Forming a plan 12 Choosing a journal 17 Uniform requirements 21 Instructions to authors 23 Standardised reporting guidelines 24 Authorship 29 Contributions 41 3 Writing your paper 48 Abstract 49 Introduction 51 Methods 54 Results 63 Discussion 85 Summary guidelines 89 4 Finishing your paper 93 Choosing a title 93 Title page 100 References and citations 101 Peer review 106 v ... - tailieumienphi.vn