ABSTRACT

Getting published is crucial for success in biomedicine. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced writer, you will find this book has fresh, practical tips on everyday issues. Based on the authors’ successful training courses and extensive experience of healthcare communications, this book will answer your questions and help you to avoid the most frequent problems and pitfalls. The book is designed to be very practical, and to be used when you are actually writing. It does not need to be read straight through from beginning to end before you get started. Instead, just dip into any chapter and you will find a range of tips relevant to the material you are working on right now.

part |2 pages

Part I The publishing process in science

chapter 1|4 pages

What do you want to write?

chapter 2|10 pages

Understanding the publishing process

chapter 3|4 pages

Best practice, ethics and authorship

chapter 4|4 pages

Original research: what can be published?

chapter 5|10 pages

Selecting the right journal

chapter 8|4 pages

Personal profi le management

part |2 pages

Part II: Writing the core sections of a scientific research paper

chapter 9|6 pages

Research papers and reviews: titles

chapter 10|8 pages

Research papers: abstracts

chapter 11|4 pages

Conference abstracts

chapter 12|6 pages

Research papers: introduction

chapter 13|8 pages

Research papers: methods

chapter 14|8 pages

Research papers: results

chapter 15|6 pages

Research papers: fi gures

chapter 16|8 pages

Research papers: tables

chapter 17|4 pages

Research papers: photographs

chapter 19|6 pages

References

chapter 20|6 pages

Checking your manuscript

part |2 pages

Part III Writing other scientifi c material

chapter 21|6 pages

Review articles and book chapters

chapter 22|6 pages

Theses and dissertations

chapter 23|4 pages

How to write a book

chapter 24|8 pages

Informal science writing

part |2 pages

Part IV Fundamentals of scientifi c writing

chapter 25|8 pages

Clear writing: sentences

chapter 26|6 pages

Clear writing: words

part |2 pages

Part V Practicalities of scientifi c writing

chapter 29|6 pages

Planning your writing

chapter 30|6 pages

Overcoming writer’s block

chapter 32|6 pages

More effective word processing

chapter 33|2 pages

Useful software for writers

chapter 34|4 pages

E- resources for biomedical writers

chapter 35|2 pages

Selected further reading