Yateendra Joshi

Some journals are picky about the minutiae of formatting citations and references: one journal declares upfront that “manuscripts will be returned even without reviewing if reference style is not…

In this article, we examine each part of a typical table, noting how it is styled or formatted.

The journal formatting saga continues. There is a lot to consider when formatting your manuscript for a journal. 

Formatting may mean speedier publication, ahead of other papers in the queue, simply because you have made the additional step of formatting easier. Here are some suggestions for formatting your…

Other factors being equal, it is in the interest of not only authors, not only the academic community as a whole, but of society at large that the open access movement be supported and promoted by…

For more than 50 years,<em> Journal Citation Reports</em> (JCR) has been providing a measure of the quality or standing of academic journals. The measure, namely Journal Impact Factor, is…

Read aloud any text that requires parallel structure: disturbed rhythm while reading aloud is a reliable indicator of unparallel structure. Brush up your grammar so that you can pinpoint the part of…

Learn in depth how to write plain-language summaries and know more about the strategies you can use to write them. 

Plagiarizing is often resorted to because it saves time and effort, and many are not even aware that plagiarizing is a violation of ethics. Here we give some examples of plagiarism and consequences…

Self-plagiarism can have unintended consequences, and it is safer to mention upfront that you are reusing your own text – but without violating any copyright – and supply the relevant information or…