British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.
Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.
Demonstrating how to compose a scientific paper, this book describes not just what to do but why and how, explaining why each section of a science paper requires its particular form of information, and showing how to fit data and arguments into that form. It recognizes that experiments in different disciplines need different presentations.
From the contentsIntroduction. Scientific Papers used as Examples.- Tools and Techniques. The Standards. Words and Text. Numbers. Figures. Scientific Patterns.- The Scientific Paper. Research and Writing. Writing the Sections of a Scientific Paper.- Preparing to Publish. Gestation and Rewriting. Responding to Editors and Referees. Appendixes.