Ten simple (Empirical) rules for writing science

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Weinberger, Cody J ^a   Evans, James A ^a   Allesina, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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ARTICLE; AUTHOR; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; PUBLISHING; SCIENCE; SCIENTIST; WRITING; ALGORITHM; PROCEDURES; PUBLICATION;

ALGORITHMS; MANUSCRIPTS, MEDICAL; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; SCIENCE; WRITING;

EID: 84929461250     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004205     Document Type: Editorial

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