The 9th World Congress of the International Association of Maternal and Neonatal Health (IAMANEH
Message of the Secretary General of ESMANEH
The ins and outs of publishing a scientific manuscript
E.E. Lawson
Dept of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
This session will review the basic principles of writing and publishing the results of a clinical research project. Starting with organizing ideas into a coherent manuscript with appeal for editors and reviewers, the workshop leaders will interactively work with the audience to review writing principles and processes common to scientific reporting. Emphasis will be placed on writing full original reports, though comments on preparing other types of reports and presentations will also be included. The overall structure of manuscripts will be reviewed including purposes and content of the Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Statistics, Results and Discussion sections. Interactive projects to recognize and correct common errors will use examples from manuscripts submitted for publication (and also from published articles). These examples will illustrate major principles in writing sentences, paragraphs and organization of manuscripts overall. Handouts and slides will be the main audiovisual tools. Development of figures – graphics as well as half tones – and tables will also be discussed. Differences between graphics for presentation and publication and use of computer-generated materials will be emphasized. Journal selection and understanding the review process complete the workshop. Finally, the speaker will encourage pre-registered seminar participants to submit, prior to the meeting, an article for personal review during the meeting.
Dr Lawson receives support from Nature Publishing Group for his role as editor of Journal of Perinatology
Edited by Aldo Campana,