Publishing in Science: A Step-by-Step Guide

Penning and publishing competitive scientific research depends largely on efficient and impactful scientific writing and good publication strategy. Look no further for your guide to the basics.

Mitchell P. Jones’ Publishing in Science: A Step-by-Step Guide is a must-have for those new to publishing journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters – especially Ph.D. students. In clear, concise and precise language, Jones lays out the essential steps for compiling a highly scoped and impactful manuscript. Comprehensive and firmly instructional, this guide features step-by-step directions, content and structure suggestions with useful examples, tips on how to set up and caption effective tables, graphs and schematics, and equation and unit formatting principles. Featuring an easy-to-navigate approach, it also introduces and contrasts each publication type, provides shortcuts for efficient referencing, titling and editing and details what to expect during the publishing process. With no assumed knowledge required, it is the type of investment any writer of scientific papers should make to maximise their chances of success.

This guide is specifically formatted for those interested in writing journal articles, conference papers or book chapters. Guides for bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. theses, are also available as part of the Scientific Writing for Beginners series.