Statistical Analysis, Writing Manuscripts & Science Consulting

EV Science Consultant offers various medical writing and editing services including statistical analysis, writing manuscripts, scientific consulting & more.

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Writing scientific articles during self-isolation

Are you in self-isolation and required to work from home? Then this is an excellent time to finish those articles that were already half-written and start writing the ones you had planned.

Check my blog to see how you can make the most of this time and write productively.

https://www.evscienceconsultant.com/blog/writing-scientific-article-during-self-isolation

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Finding the Molecular Biology tools you need

When I was working in research, whenever I needed any online molecular biology tool Pedro’s Molecular Biology Search and Analysis Tools would always be the first place I would go to. Pedro Maldonado Coutinho generated the list when he was a graduate student at Iowa State University of Science and Technology, he has however moved on and is now a professor of Glycogenomics in Marseille, France. Good for him but unfortunately Pedro´s List has therefore not been maintained since. Several alternative sites are available that maintain good lists of links to molecular biology tools that you may want to check out.

Read all about it in my blog here: https://www.evscienceconsultant.com/blog/molecular-biology-tools

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Predatory award organization – the new scam

I have written in the past about predatory journals and predatory meetings that we all need to watch out for. I receive emails daily aimed at prying my money out of my pocket for one of these scams. This week I received a new scam though and thought it would be good to share with you. It’s from a predatory award organization.

The heading is: Your research article is Winner at World Championship 2019 in Pediatrics.  Wonderful, I never knew that such a championship existed!  

´World Championship 2019 organizes international meritorious competition every year for Best Thesis and Dissertation Award, Doctoral Research Award and milestone international research articles. It gives us immense pleasure to congratulate you for -´    It then refers to one of my publications from 2013 (!) that was actually the least interesting publication of the last ten years as it was merely a letter to the editor of some insignificant journal pointing about a mistake in an article they published.

Read the whole blog here: https://www.evscienceconsultant.com/blog/predatory-meetings

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How to write an abstract for a manuscript or a conference

When you have finished a manuscript, you need an abstract that informs future readers what the article is about before they (pay to) download it.   Also, when you want to present your work at a conference, you need an abstract to show what your research is about so the selection committee can assign you to the correct session, and so the conference attendees can decide whether or not to listen to your presentation or look at your poster. Keep in mind that the decision to read your article or assign you a slot as speaker depends on the information available in your abstract. So your abstract should be a self-contained text that represents your research well.

Read the whole blog here:  https://www.evscienceconsultant.com/blog/abstract-writing

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Access to PDFs of scientific publications

Do you also regularly experience difficulty obtaining the PDFs of publications? Either because they are behind a journal´s paywall or just not available online as PDF? There are several alternative ways to obtain these publications.

Read all abouty it in my blog here: https://www.evscienceconsultant.com/blog/access-pdfs-scientific-publications

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Are you using a reference management program?

When you are writing your first publication, you may not be aware of how much work it is to format your references to match the style of the journal. Every journal has its own requirements: such as titles in italics, journal names in bold, journal names abbreviated or full, the number of authors listed if more than 5 or 7 or 10… Apart from the right format of the references in the reference list, they also need to have the right format in the text, which usually comes down to the name of the first author and the year of publication, or simply a number. In addition, you need to keep track of the references in the text and make sure they show up in the right order in your reference list.   Using a reference management program will save you lots of time and frustration.

Read all about it here: https://www.evscienceconsultant.com/blog/choosing-reference-management-software

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Formatting Tips for Tables of Tables or Figures in APA Style

Many journals and institutes, especially in North America, require documents to be formatted in APA style. The APA style was originally developed by the American Psychological Association and contains extensive guidelines for writing, using sources, referencing, adding footnotes, and formatting. The complete guidelines for the APA style are very extensive and can be found here.  If it is your first time preparing a document in APA style it can be very time consuming and frustrating to figure out how to format your document correctly.  You probably did not look for tips on formatting your document in APA style until after you have written most of the text. This is unfortunate because formatting from the start will save you a lot of time later on.

Here you can find some tips on how to format the table of tables, table of figures, and your references: https://www.evscienceconsultant.com/blog/formatting-tips-document-apa-style