Additional Materials and Recommended Resources
Research Article Self-Check Questions
This checklist is intended for authors of scientific articles, who are revising their manuscripts just before submission to a journal. By answering the question in the checklist, the authors should make sure that they have not forgotten any crucial step in manuscript preparation.
Research Article Peer Review Questions
This checklist is tailored to meet the needs of peers reviewing someone else’s scientific article before it is submitted to a journal. It provides a detailed, structured list of review questions that guide reviewers through the various sections of a manuscript, allowing for a thorough assessment of its content and form.
Open Peer Review: A Real-Life Example
This is a real-life example of an open peer review process in action: you can read the actual exchanges between the authors and reviewers of a poster on detecting LLM-generated references, submitted to the 2026 International Conference on Learning Representations.
Academic Phrasebank (The University of Manchester)
This freely available academic phrasebank provides you with the building blocks of academic writing. It lists and exemplifies frequently used phrases that help you to define and describe properly, to classify and list, to compare and contrast, to express how certain you are about your findings, and to master other key aspects of scientific communication. Although it was originally intended for non-native speakers of English, it is in fact used by native speakers as well.
Günter Blöschl: How to write (and publish) a scientific paper in hydrology (presentation slides, 0,6MB)
Provides a comprehensive overview of writing an article (in hydrology).
Dani Or: Writing a scientific paper (presentation slides, 3,3 MB)
Presentation about structure and format, outline, elements, examples, ethics.