How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific Paper

Björn Gustavii has been teaching courses in scientific writing for doctoral (PhD) students in medicine for over twenty-five years. He brings his personal experience to this book, both from writing more than 100 of his own research papers and from his work as a journal editor.

• Preface to the third edition; Acknowledgements; 1. Basic rules of writing; 2. Comments on scientific writing; 3. Drafting the manuscript; 4. Choosing a journal; 5. How to begin; 6. Figure captions (legends); 7. Preparing a graph; 8. Graph combination; 9. Drawings; 10. How to design a table; 11. Title; 12. Authors; 13. Abstract; 14. Introduction; 15. Methods; 16. Results; 17. Discussion; 18. Acknowledgements; 19. References; 20. PhD and other doctoral theses; 21. Letters and case reports; 22. Numbers; 23. Abbreviations; 24. How to present statistical results; 25. Typing; 26. Dealing with editors and referees; 27. Correcting proofs; 28. Authors' responsibility; Literature needed on your desk; Further reading; Literature cited; Index.

Review of previous edition: 'This book ranks with the best in the field. It is brief, to the point and easy to follow … useful to the author and editor … recommended.' Research Communications in Molecular Pathology and Pharmacology