How to Write a Scientific Paper: Practical Guidelines.
Precise, accurate and clear writing is essential for communicating in health sciences, as publication is an important component in the university criteria for academic promotion and in obtaining funding to support research. In spite of this, the development of writing skills is a subject infrequently included in the curricula of faculties of medicine and allied health sciences. Therefore clinical investigators require tools to fill this gap. The present paper presents a brief historical background to medical publication and practical guidelines for writing scientific papers for acceptance in good journals.
Centre de recherche, CHU Sainte-Justine; Département de Biochimie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
Edgard
E
Delving
Department of Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria; Division of Chemical Pathology, University of Cape Town; National Health Laboratory Service, CTshwane Academic Division, Pretoria, South Africa.
Tahir S
TS
Pillay
Life Sciences Department, Elsevier , Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Anthony
A
Newman
guidelines; scientific writing
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