March 13, 2009

Edanz Group Executive Editor Chad Walker gave a presentation on "How to Get Published in Scientific Journals". The presentation, held at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, was part of The 67th G-COE Author Workshop for Young Researchers (Global Center of Excellence), organized by Kyushu University and Elsevier Japan.

Mr. Walker covered practical topics for first-time authors, ranging from writing tips at the word-level to sentence-level, and even included tips about the overall organization of a paper. Writing abstracts was a focus of the presentation because they represent a "mini version" of the full paper and therefore must be written well to increase an author's chances of getting published.
Mr. Walker had the following advice for young authors, "1) Pay attentio n to details. You will need to pay attention to details when writing a paper because every journal has its own unique set of author guidelines that must be followed. Remember that a paper that has correctly followed the guidelines for a particular journal will be looked upon much more favorably by the journal editors than a paper that has not. 2) Be willing to change. As you write more and more papers, you will learn better ways of writing and presenting your research. Thus the skill of "actively learning" about how to write better will become one of your most valuable assets in your publishing career."
Other presenters at the event included Professor Msaaki Abe, the head of the G-COE course International Scientific English, and Professor Chihaya Adachi, the regional editor of Organic Electronics. The importance of figures and tables was a hot topic covered by these presentors because, along with the title, abstract, and references, they are the focus of peer reviewers before they actually read a paper's content. Budding authors were advised not to fill their tables with unnecessary words, not to make letters too small to read, and to use colors that will look good when printed in black and white.
Visit our Writing Guide to learn more about how to write a manuscript for submission to SCI indexed journals.

January, 2009
We spoke with Jessica Feinstein, Author Services Manager for Taylor & Francis.

November 15, 2008
Edanz Group Scientific Director Dr. Daniel McGowan and China Director Benjamin Shaw attended The Symposium on Anatomical Record's Call for Manuscripts.
The symposium, held at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China was organized by AR Associate Editor, Dr. Li Jicheng. Dr. McGowan gave a presentation which began with a short section on why scientists and clinicians need to publish their findings and then proceeded to focus on the small details that can help bring a draft manuscript to publication. There were sections on article structure, specifically, what journal editors expect from each section of a manuscript, language, describing some common errors of non-native English-speaking authors, and ethics, describing authors' responsibilities to the scientific community. After the talk, Dr. McGowan and Mr. Shaw worked with many of the attending authors to improve the language of the manuscripts they planned on submitting to AR.

Visit our Writing Guide to see Dr. McGowan's presentation "How to Write a World Class Paper"