[Practical guidelines for writing and editing scientific articles in health sciences].
Universal guidelines for the editing of scientific results in Spanish and English in the wide fields of Health Sciences, written in a concise, practical and colloquial way are given. This article is devoted to those professionals whose main activities are the practical care of patients; however, having original results they lack enough practice and training in the complex editing process in order to send the manuscripts for consideration to the Editors of well qualified, indexed, journals. Some ways to make easy the writing of the different sections of the manuscripts, appropriate verb tenses as well as explanation of the main bibliometric parameters as Impact Factor are discussed. Others relevant issues, as authorship, letters to the editors and referees are also analysed.
Eynard
Aldo R
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Instituto de Biología Celular, I Cátedra de Biología Celular, Histología y Embriología, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. aeynard@cmefcm.uncor.edu
D035843:Biomedical Research; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D011643:Publishing / Q000592:standards*; D012107:Research Design; D014956:Writing / Q000592:standards*