Thoroughly updated throughout, the authors of this classic guide put their advice into practice by keeping the book as clear and simple as possible. They provide early-career scientists and experienced researchers with practical support on writing for different audiences and getting published. This ninth edition retains the key material – including preparing text and graphics, publishing research papers, writing grant proposals, rights and permissions, and a wealth of advice on writing style – while new material includes new guidance on navigating copyright, presenting online, identifying co-authors, creating visual abstracts, and writing in English as a non-native language. Valuable appendices provide a ready reference on words and expressions to avoid, SI prefixes, useful websites, and a handy glossary. Postgraduate students and working scientists will want to keep How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper at their desks and refer to it at every stage of writing and publication.

'A very useful reference book for all scientists who want to have their work read - and that's all of us, isn't it?' Robert Connon Smith, The Observatory

Barbara Gastel is Professor of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Humanities in Medicine, and Biotechnology at Texas A & M University. She has received awards and recognitions from the American Medical Writers Association, the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences, the Council of Science Editors, and Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society. Robert A. Day (1924–2021) was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Delaware, where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in scientific writing. He directed the publishing program of the American Society for Microbiology and served as managing editor of the Journal of Bacteriology. He had also been president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing and chairman of the Council of Biology Editors.