title: The finer points of writing and refereeing scientific articles.
abstract: Writing scientific papers is a skill required by all haematologists. Many also need to be able to referee papers submitted to journals. These skills are not often formally taught and as a result may not be done well. We have reviewed published evidence of errors in these processes. Such errors may be ethical, scientific or linguistic, or may result from a lack of understanding of the processes. The objective of the review is, by highlighting errors, to help writers and referees to avoid them.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Haematology, Imperial College London, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: Barbara J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Bain
authors.affiliation: Department of Haematology, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: Tim J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Littlewood
authors.affiliation: Centre for Haematology, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: Richard M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Szydlo
mesh_terms: D000004:Abbreviations as Topic; D007802:Language; D017712:Peer Review, Research / Q000592:standards*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D011643:Publishing / Q000592:standards*; D015871:Scientific Misconduct; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D009626:Terminology as Topic
keywords: research misconduct; reviewing scientific articles; writing scientific articles