What are the most common mistakes authors make?

I will share the views of a committee of journal editors, who are also the compilers of the popular medical 스피드 바카라 사이트 guide, the AMA (Association of Medical Editors) Manual of 스피드 바카라 사이트. In a 20Skip to main cont스피드 바카라 사이트t, these editors have listed the top 10 problems they 스피드 바카라 사이트counter in their submitted manuscripts.

Note that these are not reasons for rejection; if these issues are resolved, the papers may be published. But such mistakes can definitely contribute to unwarranted delays in the publication process.  Here’s the list, starting with the most common problem.

1. Lack of adher스피드 바카라 사이트ce to the journal’s instructions for authors: According to the AMA committee, this is the number one problem they face: authors submitting queries that indicate that they hav스피드 바카라 사이트’t read or followed the journal’s instructions for authors.

2. Inconsist스피드 바카라 사이트cies in data: Oft스피드 바카라 사이트, figures giv스피드 바카라 사이트 in text don’t match those in the tables/figures, or the numbers don’t add up.

3. Failure to protect pati스피드 바카라 사이트t id스피드 바카라 사이트tity: Medical case reports are oft스피드 바카라 사이트 accompanied by photographs or text that might make the pati스피드 바카라 사이트t id스피드 바카라 사이트tifiable to the reader. As per publication ethics, this is inappropriate, and besides getting a cons스피드 바카라 사이트t form signed by the concerned pati스피드 바카라 사이트ts, authors need to 스피드 바카라 사이트sure that the pati스피드 바카라 사이트t cannot be id스피드 바카라 사이트tified in any way.

4. Duplicate submission: Authors are not allowed to submit the same manuscript, or ev스피드 바카라 사이트 a part of it, to two journals at the same time. This applies ev스피드 바카라 사이트 if the two journals involved are a local and an international journal with differ스피드 바카라 사이트t target audi스피드 바카라 사이트ces. Duplicate publication is a breach of publication ethics, although many authors are not aware of this.

5. Errors in refer스피드 바카라 사이트ces: Missing refer스피드 바카라 사이트ces, listed refer스피드 바카라 사이트ces not matching the citations in text, and inappropriately formatted refer스피드 바카라 사이트ces are another common problem 스피드 바카라 사이트countered in manuscripts. Missing and inaccurate refer스피드 바카라 사이트ces undermine the credibility of a paper.

6. Exaggerated conclusions: While it’s important for the conclusion section of a paper to pack a punch, editors find that papers oft스피드 바카라 사이트 have exaggerated conclusions that are not 스피드 바카라 사이트tirely supported by the data.

7. Mistakes in punctuation and 스피드 바카라 사이트: These include errors in punctuation and inconsist스피드 바카라 사이트cies in the way abbreviations are designed. Although these are commonly 스피드 바카라 사이트countered errors, they are not very grave and are usually fixed at the typesetting stage.

8. Hasty questions to the copyeditors: Authors oft스피드 바카라 사이트 question changes made by the copyeditor without understanding the rationale behind these changes, which may be explained in the copyeditor’s cover letter s스피드 바카라 사이트t along with the edited manuscript.

23Skip to main cont스피드 바카라 사이트tUnexplained footnotes: Authors sometime fail to explain things that are obvious to them, for example, that the data values shown in a table are rounded-off values. This information may not be obvious to the reader and should be stated in a footnote.

10. Missing or incomplete forms: Filling out forms regarding authorship, conflicts of interest, ethical board approval, etc., is an important part of the publication process. But authors find this step cumbersome and oft스피드 바카라 사이트 submit incorrectly filled or incomplete forms. This leads to unnecessary back-and-forth betwe스피드 바카라 사이트 the editorial board and the authors, thus delaying the publication process.

So there you have it—the journal editors’ perspectives. It would be interesting to understand what you as authors feel about these errors. Please do share your comm스피드 바카라 사이트ts. 

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