How to write a paper
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Sound advice for scientific writing can be found here: [1].
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.