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Sound advice for scientific writing can be found here: [http://abacus.bates.edu/~ganderso/biology/resources/writing/HTWtoc.html]. | Sound advice for scientific writing can be found here: [http://abacus.bates.edu/~ganderso/biology/resources/writing/HTWtoc.html]. | ||
==General style principles== | |||
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#The last paragraph of the background and the first paragraph of the discussion tend to be summaries of the major outcomes of the work. | |||
#Figure legends should not use "we" or "I". | |||
#Figure legends should stand alone. i.e., the reader should not have to read the paper text to understand the figure. | |||
Revision as of 15:19, 23 March 2008
Sound advice for scientific writing can be found here: [1].
General style principles
Please edit/amend.
- The last paragraph of the background and the first paragraph of the discussion tend to be summaries of the major outcomes of the work.
- Figure legends should not use "we" or "I".
- Figure legends should stand alone. i.e., the reader should not have to read the paper text to understand the figure.
