How to Choose a Style Guide for Academic Writing
A style guide is a reference book that provides rules for writing, such as grammar and syntax, in specific disciplines. These include how to format citations and references, which…
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Journal formatting guidelines and style requirements
How to Cite in Harvard Referencing Style
Authors are required to follow referencing styles in academic writing. The Harvard style of referencing uses an author-date format for citations. Unlike other referencing styles,…
Why You Should Submit Supplementary Material with Your Manuscript
Increasingly, academic and scientific journals are requiring authors to submit their manuscripts with additional or supplemental material. These requirements can be found in the…
How to Effectively Use the Turabian Style Guide in Research Papers
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Whenever you refer to another work, or idea in a written document, it is important to cite the source. There are a number of…
How Supplementary Information Can Strengthen Academic Papers
Supplementary information can be a very valuable tool in academic publishing, allowing authors to provide important additional material—such as experimental details, data sets,…
How to Use Bullet Lists and Number Lists in a Research Paper
Academic articles often include lists, which organize the material and provide the reader with a quick overview of a section. There are different ways to format lists, but some…
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…
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…