Yateendra Joshi

Consultant Academic Trainer, Editage Insights

Communicator, Published Author, BELS-certified editor with Diplomate status.

Binomial nomenclature: How to present scientific names of plants, animals, and organisms in academic writing

This article covers the basic points of style authors should note while using the names of species in research papers.

Is it acceptable to use first person pronouns in scientific writing?

Novice researchers are often discouraged from using the first person pronouns I and we in their writing, and the most common reason given for avoiding the use of the first person

How to write the Introduction of a research paper, with examples

If you want others to cite your paper, you should make sure they read it first. Let us assume that the title and the abstract of your paper have convinced your peers that they should see your paper. It is then the job of the Introduction section to ensure that they start reading it and keep reading it, to pull them in and to show them around as it were, guiding them to the other parts of the paper. This article tells you, with examples, what you should include in the Introduction and what you should leave out, and what reviewers and journal editors look for in this section.

Using “et al.” for in-text citations in research papers

It is rare for a single researcher to publish a paper all by herself or himself; most research papers have several or many authors, and the average number of authors for a paper keeps rising