Writing and Publishing

• Overview 
• Part I: How to get started
• Part II: Title and abstract
• Part III: Introduction
• Part IV: Methods
• Part V: Results
• Part VI: Discussion
• Part VII: Tables and figures
• Part VIII: References
• Part IX: Authorship
• Part X: Choice of journal
• Part XI: Submitting a paper
• Part XII: Responding to reviewers

• Anatomy of a research paper
• Clarity clinic for surgical writing
• How to write and publish an original research article
• Writing it up: a step-by-step guide to publication for beginning investigators

Make sure you publish your research paper in a reputable journal that is indexed for discoverability by using the following links:

• Find journals indexed in PubMed
• be iNFORMEd Checklist - how to assess quality of a journal or publisher
• Instructions for Authors - find article submission information for more than 6,000 health sciences journals

Articles on choosing a journal in which to publish your paper

• Choosing the Target Journal: Do Authors Need a Comprehensive Approach?
• Ready! Aim! Fire! targeting the right medical science journal
• Where to Publish

Matt Weaver, Systems Librarian at the Cleveland Clinic Alumni Library, created a website to help caregivers identify journals in which to publish your article.

• Go to Where to Publish website

Defining the role of authors and contributors - ICMJE Recommendations

Articles on authorship 

• Addressing Authorship Issues Prospectively: A Heuristic Approach
• Addressing the vexed issue of authorship and author order: A discussion paper
• Who wrote this paper? The ethical issues of authorship

Plagiarism

• Avoiding Plagiarism, Self-plagiarism, and Other Questionable Writing Practices: A Guide to Ethical Writing

• EQUATOR Network - link to 413 reporting guides including CONSORT, PRISMA,and more
• Research reporting guidelines by organization - National Library of Medicine

• Citing medicine: the NLM style guide for authors, editors, and publishers
• Purdue OWL - how to format citations in APA and AMA formats
• Samples of Formatted References for Authors of Journal Articles from the National Library of Medicine

• Dorland's Dictionary of Medical Acronyms and Abbreviations, 7th ed.
• Stedman's Medical Dictionary

• Medical Encyclopedia from MedlinePlus

• Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus
• Roget's International Thesaurus -- find synonyms and antonyms