TWENTY STEPS TO WRITING A RESEARCH ARTICLE SCI写作的二十要点

TWENTY STEPS TO WRITING A RESEARCH ARTICLE

Beth A. Fischer and Michael J. Zigmond

Survival Skills and Ethics Program

University of Pittsburgh

The process of moving from idea to published manuscript can be a daunting one.

Here we break that process into a series of steps designed make this essential task

more manageable.1 If 20 steps is too much to manage, focus on the 13 steps that

we have marked with an asterisk (*) – these cannot be skipped!

1. Determine the authors

When designing a research project, we recommend preparing an initial list and order of

As Robert Day says in How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper (1998), “The goal of scientific research is publication….A scientific experiment, no matter how spectacular the results, in not complete until the results are published.” Your experiment – at least one phase of it – is now complete. Enjoy the moment!

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

For a more complete set of references on writing, see our web site (

Sides C (1991) How to Write and Present Technical Information. USA: Oryx Press.

Woodford FP (1999) How to Teach Scientific Communication. Reston, VA: Council of Biology Editors.

BA Fischer & MJ Zigmond

www.survival.pitt.edu

survival@pitt.edu

version: July 7, 2004