How to publish your research

How to write a paper

 In short follow these points:

  • Make clear what do you want to say. Formulate it in one sentence.
  • Think about this: you are doing research - trying to solve a problem: what is the problem, why are you trying to solve it, how are you solving, what have you done, who cares?
  • Prepare brief outlines (what are you saying in the paragraphs), make the figures.
  • Take the figures and seek a colleague: using the figures tell him the story.
  • Change outlines and figures according to the feedback, you may look out someone else to get even more opinions.
  • Write the first version. Now, you know what you want to say. This should be supported by the data and discussed in view of current knowledge in the field. Stay focused: do not try to write everything you know or do not show other interesting results; this distracts the attention. 
  • Wait for some time, rewrite what you had written before. Now it is time to give the manuscript out to your colleagues.
  • To prepare the manuscript it usually takes several weeks.
  •  If you have final version approved by all coauthors you can submit and hope it will go well.

 

You can have look to several online resources: 

The guides for paper writing can be found here: JPCL, AM, JCPL.

For the cover letter and graphical abstract look here: CL,  GA.

Guidelines for choosing a good title are summarized here: CM.

Writing style and word usage: ACS.

For writing it will also help you to see how to write a review: R.

Some tips on preparing graphics: JPCL.

Or watch some videos here.

Here is the link to ACS virtual issue on publishing:

Ask your experienced colleagues!

 

Don't forget to acknowledge your funding sources. Otherwise you will not get money anymore.

This is an example of Acknowlegdement:

This research was carried out under the project CEITEC 2020 (LQ1601) with financial support
from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic under the National
Sustainability Programme II, the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (project No. xxx), the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (project No. TE01020233), and the EU 7th Framework Programme (projects SYLICA, xxx, and UnivSEM, xxx). P. P. was supported by Sciex fellowship. L. K. acknowledges the support by the project “Centre for Materials Research at FCH BUT” (xxx) from ERDF. Z. L. was supported by Brno Ph.D. Talent Scholarship Holder – Funded by the Brno City Municipality. Authors thank FEI Company for providing access to plasma stripper.

The ongoing projects concerning our group are:

  • CEITEC: the project “CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology” (CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0068)
  • GACR (Šikola): the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (project No. GA15-21581S)
  • AMISPEC (Šikola): the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (project No. TE01020233)
  • TACR-ε (Šikola, WBG): the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (project No. TH01011284)
  • TACR-ε (Bábor, TIGBT): the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (project No. TH01010419)
  • MŠMT/DAAD (Čechal): the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic (project No. 7AMB15DE005)
  • GACR/FWF (Urbánek):  the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (project No. ??)

Recently finished projects:

  • CEITEC: the project “CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology” (CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0068)
  • GACR (Šikola): the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (project No. P102/12/1881)
  • GACR (Kolíbal): the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (project No. GPP108/12/P699)
  • GACR (Urbánek): the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (project No. GPP102/12/P443
  • UNIVSEM (Šikola): the EU 7th Framework Programme (UnivSEM, No. 280566)
  • Excelence (Křápek): the European Social Fund (Grant No. CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0005)
  • Excelence (Šimšíková, Bartoš): the European Social Fund (Grant No. CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0039)