REVIEW PAPER
Hints and tricks in the scientific publication

Submitted: 11.10.2005
Accepted: 11.15.2005


Corresponding author:
Prof. Kenneth Dickstein
Division of Cardiology
University of Bergen
Central Hospital in Rogaland
4011 Stavanger, Norway
Phone: +47 51 51 80 00
Fax: +47 51 51 99 21
E-mail: trout@online.no


Authorship
• All authors should have contributed to:
– Hypothesis
– Design
– Data collection
– Interpretation and manuscript revision
Engage your co-authors actively from the start
• First author is the boss
• Senior author
• First 6 authors, et al. >6 authors
• Authorship agreed upon prior to data collection
• Co-authors can present the paper
• Acknowledgements may help limit authorship
• Corresponding author

Congress abstracts
• a rapid communication for an oral or visual public presentation
• not a summary of a paper
• a single message
• can be interpreted on its own
• select topic/category very carefully
• 1 study may support several abstracts
• key words are unimportant
• follow instructions exactly
• title is most important, should be written first and revised last
• remember the theme of a chosen topic
• use recommended subheadings
• design tables simply
• avoid busy figures
• use all space provided
• an abstract should always lead to a full manuscript

Poster
• more relaxed than an oral presentation and more fun
• it is the publication and reference that counts on your CV
• be available to elaborate and argue
• use the opportunity to network
• stay modest, visitors usually know more than you do
• view criticism as free peer review for your paper
• talk to your neighbours
• look at it from 2 meters away while walking
• title must summarise results and is the only part read by 99%
• as little text as possible, telegraph style is best
• indicate participating centres clearly
• illustrations must be simple and very large...


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