Table of Contents
Resources
On Writing
Articles, Presentations
On Plagiarism
- ETH Rules and Sanctions, 2008
On Authorship Policy
On Peer-Review
- How to review a manuscript (Spigt and Arts, 2010, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology)
- Rookie review (Gewin 2011, Nature)
Books (most of them are available on the reference shelf of the ETH Main Library)
- Joseph M Williams, “Style”, 1990 (Highly recommended)
- Diana Ridley, “The Literature Review”, 2008
- Rowena Murray “Writing for Academic Journals”, 2004
- Cargill and O'Connor, “Writing Scientific Research Articles: Strategy and Steps”, 2009
- Scott Montgomery, “The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science”, 2002
- Michael Alley, “The Craft of Scientific Writing”, 1996
- Victoria McMillan, “Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences”, 2001
Accessing scientific literature
There are 3 common ways to obtain a full-length scientific article:
- Directly from the website of the journal. This works for open-access journals and journals to which ETH subscribes. For the latter, you need to access from an ETH IP address (at ETH or through VPN).
- For typically older articles, from the main Library (you can request a photocopy on NEBIS).
- For articles neither online nor at the ETH library (no subscription), you can send a copy request to the ETH Library (Request Form). They will get it for you through partner libraries or by buying the article directly from the publisher.