英文论文发表注意事项.doc

英文论文发表注意事项
英文论文投稿前的经典28个细节检查
CHECKLIST TO USE BEFORE SUBMITTING APAPER TO AJOURNAL Have you--?
1 spell checked the whole paper?
2 rewritten your paper at least three times?
3 stopped working on your paper for aday?
To see and hear your words better when you look at it again.
4 put your main point into your title?
5 put your most significant findings first?Your gold first?
6 made it easy for readers to tell from your title and your abstract what is new and important about your work?
7 made sure all your verbs and subjects match?
Plural verbs have plural subjects?Singular verbs have singular subjects?
8 spelled the same name exactly the same way throughout your paper?
NOT"Bragg....Brag"
BUT BRAGG every time!
9 asked afriend or anative English speaker to read your paper and tell you what's confusing or unclear?
10 changed nouns to adjectives when necessary?
NOT"three dimension ordered array"
BUT"three dimensional ordered array"
11 used active verbs rather than passive verbs as much as possible?
NOT"The effects were investigated..."
BUT"We investigated the effects"
12 found away to break asentence that's much too long(over 4lines)into two sentences?
13 broken up aparagraph that is way too long into two paragraphs?
14 tried to reduce your paper to its skeleton by making aone page outline of it?
Might help you see if your paper anized in the best possible way.
15 Made all equivalent items look the same?
NOT"scheme 1....Scheme 2"
BUT"Scheme 1...Scheme 2"
16 removed all contractions,such as"can't"or"couldn't"?and changed them to"cannot"or"could not"?
17 checked the columns of numbers in your Tables and made all the decimal points in the same column line up vertically?
18 put anoun right after"this"or"these"every time you use one of those words?
19 moved"however"away from the beginning of sentences to aspot later in asentence where it sounds better?
20 made all your abbreviations the same?
NOT 48 hrs 3hours 2h five h
BUT 48 h3 h2 h5 h
21 u