1. Writing Scientific Papers Additional materials required for manuscript preparation and submission Prof Steve Leharne

2. The Software Tools Mind Mapping Software Word Processing Bibliographic Software Graphical Presentation Package Equation Editor Molecular Drawing Package

3. Search Engines Web of Knowledge Journal Collections – Subscription Science Direct Springer Link – Open Acess

4. Mind Mapping Software

6. Export Map to Word

7. Word Processing

8. Why Word? Easy to format paper to conform with the house style of the journal the paper is submitted to.. Easily input tables and figures and format the text around the tables and figures. Word will accept Add-Ins such as MathType (an Equation Editor) and EndNote ( Bibliographic Software). Can easily input footnotes.

9. Bibliographic Software

12. Link to paper

14. Search Remote Databases

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20. Insert citation button Journal Style

22. Graphical Presentation Software

23. Excel Widespread. Good for storing and manipulating data. Takes practice to produce good graphical output.

27. With Excel

28. With Origin

29. Why Origin? Dedicated software. Easy to use. Sophisticated and complex graphs can be produced.

30. Math Type Using an equation editor

34. Molecular drawing package

39. EndNote Web

40. Additional tools

50. Of course there is the old fashioned way