Tag: Editing

• You can find the best terminology to use in your manuscript by using the Google Scholar advanced search function
• The advanced search allows you to filter by exact phrase, with or without specific words, and by specified journal

The unnecessary use of abbreviations in figures can make a paper more difficult to read and may be particularly troublesome for journal reviewers.

Learn about 6 services that AJE offers to help researchers communicate their research.

This is the third part of our “Ask an Expert” interview series. In this installment, we spoke with Cheryl Casterline about the top issues in manuscript formatting.

This is the second part of our “Ask an Expert” interview series. In this installment, we speak with figure formatter Stacie Meaux about the top issues in her work.

• Both Google Scholar and Google Ngram Viewer can help provide direction on which field specific terms are relevant
• The tools vary in the number of phrases that can be searched for at the same time
• They also differ in how recent the literature they search through is

This downloadable template is a checklist and planner you can use when editing your own or a colleague's manuscript.

The phrase “data not shown” peppers scientific manuscripts, referring to findings that are relevant enough to be mentioned but not to be depicted in a figure or table. This lack of visual evidence seems to contradict the scholarly focus on careful documentation.

One of the issues that can make generating figures for research papers challenging is the array of file types that must be dealt with. In this article, we break down the different types of files a scientist is likely to encounter and explain the strengths and weaknesses of each.