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Getting Your Writing Published

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An article really isn’t finished until you see it in print or online in a respected journal. This chapter tells how to choose the best journal for your article and the technical requirements for submission. Navigating the peer-review process can be challenging, including such issues as publication bias, your native language, and even peer-review fraud. Along the path to publication, the author must consider the advantages of open-access publishing, which also carries risks such as being the victim of predatory publishers and hijacked journals. In the end, the author gives his Rules for Medical Writers.

There is no form of lead poisoning which more rapidly and thoroughly pervades the blood and bones and marrow than that which reaches the young author through mental contact with type-metal…. So the man or woman who has tasted type is sure to return to his old indulgence sooner or later.

American physician and author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894) [1]

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Taylor, R.B. (2018). Getting Your Writing Published. In: Medical Writing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70126-4_12

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