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Nature Research_How to write a paper

How to write your paper On this page Writing for a Nature journal How to write a scientific paper Writing for a Nature journal Before writing a paper, authors are advised to visit the author information pages of the journal to which they wish to submit (see this link for a  full list of Nature Research publications ). Each journal has slightly different format requirements depending on readership, space, style and so on. The journal's website will contain detailed information about format, length limits, figure preparation, and similar matters. If your questions are not answered on these pages or through our recommended guidelines below, we suggest you contact the journal’s editorial office for further guidance before submitting. Contact information for the editorial offices can be found on the journal websites. We also strongly recommend that authors read a few issues of the journal to which they wish to submit, to obtain a sense of the level, length and readership...
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Nature Physics - Elements of Style

Editorial Published:  September 2007 Elements of style Nature Physics   volume  3 ,  page 581 ( 2007 ) Cite this article 13k  Accesses 3  Citations 47  Altmetric Metrics details We regularly get queries about the minutiae of  Nature Physics  format, but what we really care about is that the papers are clear and accessibly written. “It is intended, first, to place before the general public the grand results of scientific work and scientific discovery; and to urge the claims of science to a more general recognition in education and in daily life...”. So reads the opening of  Nature 's mission statement, published originally in 1869 and still a maxim for the modern journal. It is a tradition also embraced by  Nature 's sister titles,  Nature Physics  among them. “So many papers deserve to be better written than they are.” And so we consider it a priority that the material we publi...
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How do I write a scientific paper?

Tips on how to present the results of a study, and give it the best chance of publication. Adapted with permission from a text developed by the Applied Ecology Research Group at the University of Canberra Australia, and prepared with the aid of ' How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper ' by Robert Day (ISI Press, Philadelphia, 1979).   A scientific paper is a written report describing original  research  results whose format has been defined by centuries of developing tradition, editorial practice, scientific  ethics  and the interplay with printing and publishing services. The result of this process is that virtually every scientific paper has a title, abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion.   It should, however, be noted that most publications have rules about a paper's format: some divide papers into these or some of these sections, others do not, and the order may be different in different publications. So be prepar...
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