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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Tools and Techniques | |
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| The Standards of a Scientific Paper | |
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| A Stereotyped Format | |
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| Precise Language | |
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| A Single, Clear Direction | |
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| Reviewed and Made Available to Others | |
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| Scientific Words, Sentences, and Paragraphs | |
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| Scientific Text Needs Exactness and Clarity | |
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| Write with Precision | |
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| Scientific Use of Tenses | |
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| The Paragraph Is the Unit of Exposition | |
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| Each Paragraph Makes One Point | |
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| Inside a Scientific Paragraph | |
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| Connect Succeeding Paragraphs | |
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| Writing Scientific Text | |
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| Begin to Write While You Experiment | |
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| Start Broadly, Work on the Details Later | |
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| A Magnified View of the Writing Process | |
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| Use the Skeletal Outlines | |
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| Pile in Ideas | |
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| Collect Information from Outside Resources | |
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| Form Rough Sentences | |
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| Arrange the Sentences into Themes | |
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| Make Your Themed Lists into Rough Paragraphs | |
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| Take a Break and Clear Your Mind | |
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| Put Together One Paragraph for Each Topic | |
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| Shape a Working Draft | |
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| Smooth Transitions | |
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| Polishing | |
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| When to Stop Writing | |
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| Advice to Speakers of Other Languages | |
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| Presenting Numerical Data | |
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| Tables | |
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| Organize Your Data | |
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| Inside Tables Use Numerical Order | |
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| Examples | |
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| Statistics | |
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| Descriptive Statistics | |
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| Inferential Statistics and Hypothesis Testing | |
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| Use Statistics Thoughtfully | |
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| Constructing Scientific Figures | |
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| Basic Guidelines | |
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| Figure Legends | |
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| Numerical Figures | |
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| Graphs | |
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| Relationships Between Variables | |
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| Aesthetics of Numerical Figures | |
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| Preparation for Submission to a Journal | |
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| Scientific Patterns Should Be Reproducible | |
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| Writing a Research Paper | |
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| Writing During Research | |
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| Keep a Computerized Notebook | |
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| The Diary-Record Your Work Notes | |
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| References-Archive Your Sources | |
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| Begin a Draft Early | |
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| Composing the Sections of a Research Paper | |
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| Materials and Methods | |
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| Recipes | |
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| Writing Your Materials and Methods Section | |
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| An Example of a Complete Materials and Methods Section | |
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| Commit to a Few Key Variables | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Results | |
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| Carving Out Your Results from Your Observations | |
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| Exploratory Data Analysis | |
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| Writing the Results | |
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| An Example of a Complete Results Section | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Recap Your Results | |
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| Archive Your Results | |
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| Try to Make a Proposal | |
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| An Example of a Complete Discussion Section | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Limitations of This Study | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Define the Gap | |
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| Begin with the Known | |
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| Take a Direct Path to the Unknown | |
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| Summarize Your Plan-of-Attack | |
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| A Sampler of Introductions | |
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| An Example of a Complete Introduction Section | |
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| Abstract | |
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| The Simple Abstract | |
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| The Abstract with Subsections | |
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| Key Words and the List of Nonstandard Abbreviations | |
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| Key Words | |
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| Alphabetical List of Nonstandard Abbreviations | |
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| Title | |
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| Footnotes | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| References | |
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| Cite Original Sources | |
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| Don't Cite Incomplete Sources | |
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| Find the Appropriate Citation Formats | |
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| Use Bibliographic Software | |
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| Check Your Text Citations and Your Reference List | |
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| Preparing a Manuscript for Submission | |
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| Choosing a Journal | |
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| Make a List of Candidate Journals | |
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| Consider Open Access Publishing | |
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| Rank the Journals by Quality | |
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| Aim for the Best and Toughest Journal | |
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| Style Rules | |
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| A Final Rewrite | |
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| Get a Friendly Critique | |
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| Read the Paper Back wards | |
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| Recheck the Spelling | |
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| Preparing and Submitting the Manuscript | |
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| Print and Page Format | |
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| The Manuscript Packet | |
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| Page One | |
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| Page Two | |
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| Page Three | |
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| Page Four | |
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| The Last Pages | |
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| The Introductory Letter | |
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| Responding to Editors and Referees | |
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| Homework | |
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| The Comment-by-Comment Letter | |
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| Stay Calm | |
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| Words That Are Often Misused | |
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| Simplifying Wordy, Redundant, and Awkward Phrases | |
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| Standard Scientific Abbreviations | |
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| Basic Rules | |
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| Typical Bibliographic Formats | |
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| Formats for Text Citations | |
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| Bibliographic Formats for the References Section | |
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| Articles | |
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| Books | |
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| Other | |
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| Additional Reading | |
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| Software Suggestions | |
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| Index | |