Beginner’s Guide to Publishing
Salient Features This project was envisaged keeping in mind, postgraduates and young urologist who form the backbone of medical fraternity, both at the zonal and the national level. This is an initiative of the Publication cell of Urological Society of India—West Zone (USIWZ). Chapters are authored by members of USIWZ . The book gives a bird`s eye view of all aspects of publishing and presenting in a concise and easy to understand manner. The topics covered include the role of ethics committee, formulating a study question, IMRaD, plagiarism, and the nitty gritties of the options available to publish. The uniqueness of the book lies in the QR coded videos available on finger tips for the readers on topics such as: ○How to do PubMed search? ○ How to do referencing in a manuscript? ○ How to submit article? The book would be useful to postgraduates and young consultants of all the specialities.
About the Publication cell of USIWZ The publication cell of the USIWZ was constituted by the Council of the USIWZ. The publication cell helps the members to publish their research work. The scope of the services offered by the cell includes suggestions on IMRaDs, referencing, style of writing, statistics, language editing and journals to be submitted. After the mock review by members of the cell, the manuscripts are sent back to the author with suggestions on improvising the manuscript. This book is a maiden initiative of the publication cell of the USIWZ to help the postgraduates and researchers in urology and other fields alike.
