Tag: Finishing touches

Journal cover letters are your chance to lobby on behalf of your manuscript. This AJE Journal Cover Letter Guide offers some useful tips for getting them right. It also includes a free journal cover letter template.

This article provides best practices on how (and when) to edit your research manuscript.

Although standards for writing legends for your figures vary from journal to journal, there are a few common principles that may help to ensure clarity.

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

• Engage readers with an interesting title.
• Short but descriptive titles are effective.
• Ensure your title is an accurate reflection of your work.

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.

This article defines the scope of types of reference manager software and provides details on how to use it effectively.

Here, we discuss small stylistic and formatting touches that may help to increase the clarity of clinical case reports.

In many cases, the initial choice of font is not critical because the journal will typeset the final version. However, there are a few things to keep in mind when selecting the font for your next manuscript, including journal preferences.