{"id":5419,"date":"2017-03-24T13:01:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/comic_strip\/top-10-avoidable-mistakes-as-an-author\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:26:42","slug":"top-10-avoidable-mistakes-as-an-author","status":"publish","type":"comic_strip","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/top-10-avoidable-mistakes-as-an-author","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 avoidable mistakes as an author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Publishing a research paper can be a rather time consuming process, right from submission until the journal&#8217;s final decision. As an author, you can help to speed up this process by ensuring that you avoid certain simple mistakes in your paper. But do you know what these mistakes are?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The committee of journal editors, who compiled the AMA (American Medical Association) Manual of Style, came up with <a href=\"http:\/\/amastyleinsider.com\/2012\/10\/19\/top-10-mistakes-authors-make\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a list<\/a> of the 10 most common errors that they encounter in submitted manuscripts. This infographic lists these top 10 avoidable mistakes made by authors. Although some of these mistakes may not be the sole reason for rejection, if left unresolved they could definitely create unnecessary delays in the publication process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Feel free to download a PDF version of this infographic and print it out as handy reference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive\" title=\"Top 10 avoidable author mistakes\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Top-10-avoidable-%20mistakes-authors-make_0.jpg\" alt=\"Top 10 avoidable author mistakes\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%225385%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Top%2010%20avoidable%20author%20mistakes%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22Top%2010%20avoidable%20author%20mistakes%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%20%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>You might also be interested in reading:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/top-10-mistakes-authors-make-as-compiled-by-a-committee-of-journal-editors\">Top 10 mistakes authors make&#8212;As compiled by a committee of journal editors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":33313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[2398,2389],"new_categories":[],"new_tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-5419","comic_strip","type-comic_strip","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethical-declarations","category-submission-process"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Top 10 avoidable mistakes as an author [Infographic]<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This infographic lists 10 avoidable mistakes that authors make in their manuscripts. 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