How to Write Scholarly Articles for Journals?

Are you struggling to get your manuscript through high-ranked journals? Are you struggling to convince the reviewer and editor that your few year’s worths of works and your articles scholarly deserve to be published? If the answer to any of the above questions is “yes”, keep reading this post!

Professional presentation of your research work as an article (articles scholarly) is essential for researchers and students and it is indeed the best way to disseminate your work’s output to your peers. However, the main obstacles in your way to publishing your work are the journal’s editor and reviewers! It is generally hard to convince editors and reviewers that your work is worth publishing, but we are going to give you some hints to get your work published (provided that it is scientifically sound!). The following steps allow you to have your paper evaluated based on scientific merit and not a lack of proper presentation.

Six Steps to Get Your Article (articles scholarly) Published in a Peer-review Journal

#1 Select a target journal: The first step (even before drafting the first few sentences) is to select the journal (or journals) that you want to publish your work. Many people write their manuscript first and then try to format it according to the journal to which they want to submit the manuscript! But if you consider your target journal while writing, you can arrange the contents of your manuscript according to the interests of the editor. This way you certainly make a good impression on the editor and your manuscript is more likely to be sent to reviewers for evaluation.

#2 Be specific in the title: The title of your article (articles scholarly) is the “packaging” of the article (articles scholarly). The more ambitious and attractive the title is, the higher the rate of success. Never use a simplistic title. For example, if your study is about climate change and you have found that the temperature of the earth’s climate has risen in the last 10 years do not use titles such as“Study of the earth´s climate change” or “Investigation of earth´s climate change”. Instead, highlight the main conclusion of your work in the title. For instance, you can use “Rise of Europe temperature since 2005” or “10-degree temperature rise in Europe within the last decade”.

3# Smart abstract of your articles scholarly: Do not only summarize your results in the abstract but also include a very short survey of the literature in a maximum of two lines at the start of the abstract. This provides a good impression to the readers (in particular the editor and reviewers) that your work pushes your field of interest forward. In other words, the abstract of the paper should not solely represent the outcome of your paper. Rather it should be a short version of your paper.

4# Simple and comprehensive introduction of your articles scholarly: A literature survey or introduction is an essential part of each paper. Here, you should provide a short story on the latest research and progress on the topic of your research. You should especially try to show that the scope of your work is the biggest challenge in the field. In other words, you should convince the editor and reviewers that you are pushing forward the frontline of the field by this work. Note that the last sentence should make a linkage between the state-of-the-art in the subject of your work and your contribution to the field. As an example similar to step 2, you can write: “global warming is the most serious problem of our century which might lead to a catastrophic end if proper measures are not taken to stop it. Hence, knowing the rate of temperature change in the past could provide better insight in order to stop or reduce the risk of disaster. In this work, we have systematically measured the temperature changes and …”.

5# Attractive illustration of your articles scholarly: Graphs are part of a majority of scientific articles. If you make them nicer, the comments that you will get from the journals are nice, too! A simple illustration in which the summary of your objective is depicted can be very helpful. In addition, your data or results graphs should be well presented. As an example, we have made two graphs (from the same data). Proper font size, colour and features can make a boring graph more attractive! Below you see two graphs wherein the temperature gradient of 10 years is drawn. The difference is too obvious and does not need further comment (both the graphs are drawn by Google Sheets (You can use that online or download the app for FREE).

6# Importance of conclusion of your articles scholarly: You should of course sum up the outcome of your work, but also add an ambitious perspective to your results. For instance, you could summarize your climate change study from point 2 with something like:”…these results provide a clear warning that politicians should take immediate action to reduce pollution and thereby save the earth from certain disasters.” As you see, although the aim of your study was a temperature change analysis, you can further show the importance of the results as a global issue.

These steps make your work much more brilliant than it is and publishing your several years of studies turns out to be easier than doing the work itself!

Following these steps will identify your work as timely, important, and professional-looking, and will greatly ease the publishing of your work.

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