The back stories to publishing in Biological Sciences
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Software information and conventions
Acknowledgments
About the Editor
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1
Population ecology of arid zone birds
1.1
Blue cranes in the Karoo
1.2
Sociable weavers
1.3
The view from the other side
2
If at first you don’t succeed…
2.1
Dukkha
2.2
Samudāya
2.3
Nirvana
2.4
Magga
2.5
Acknowledgements
3
Who taught you to write scientific papers?
3.1
It is never really that easy
3.2
How to identify a Reviewer
3.3
You might say the rest is history
4
Swimming in the world of academic publishing like a fish out of water
4.1
Some general musing on publishing papers for those about to try it out
4.2
Focussing on the ‘why’
4.3
Sometimes it gets personal
4.4
You’ll need a support system
5
The challenges of publishing novel research
5.1
Introduction
5.2
Back story
5.3
The outcome
5.4
Advice to Early Career Researchers
5.5
Another final twist
6
A long tail
6.1
Submitting the manuscript
6.2
Looking back
7
Discomforting results about invasion hypotheses
7.1
What the paper is about: zombie ideas and the hierarchy-of-hypotheses (HoH) approach
7.2
The hard road to get the paper published
7.3
The happy publication end
7.4
Why was it so hard to get this study published?
7.5
What are the lessons learned for publishing papers?
7.6
Acknowledgments
8
A three-year journey on a ground-breaking paper
8.1
Introduction
8.2
A three-year publishing odyssey
8.3
Reframing the paper and a new journal
8.4
Some general perspectives
8.5
Acknowledgements
9
The long road to Freshwater Paths
9.1
Submitting the manuscript
9.2
Looking back
10
Back to the bottom after a trip to the top
10.1
The four thesis papers
10.2
Looking back
11
No mussels in patches
11.1
Figure out how to handle rejections
11.2
The hard part
12
Doing things the old way
12.1
Submitting the manuscript
12.2
Looking back
13
The Next Chapter
Appendix
A
The final word
References
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