caa a22 4500 606193472 CHVBK 20210128100909.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10682-015-9773-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10682-015-9773-8 Endler John Centre of Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, 75 Pigdons Road, 3216, Waurn Ponds, VIC, Australia aut Writing scientific papers, with special reference to Evolutionary Ecology [Elektronische Daten] [John Endler] The advancement of science, as well as scientific careers, depends upon good and clear scientific writing. Science is the most democratic of human endeavours because, in principle, anyone can replicate a scientific discovery. In order for this to continue, writing must be clear enough to be understood well enough to allow replication, either in principle or in fact. In this paper I will present data on the publication process in Evolutionary Ecology, use it to illustrate some of the problems in scientific papers, make some general remarks about writing scientific papers, summarise two new paper categories in the journal which will fill gaps that appear to be expanding in the literature, and summarise newjournal policies to help mitigate existing problems. Most of the suggestions about writing would apply to any scientific journal. Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2015 Scientific writing nationallicence Writing clarity nationallicence Publishing speed nationallicence Paper categories nationallicence Evolutionary Ecology Springer International Publishing 29/4(2015-07-01), 465-478 0269-7653 29:4<465 2015 29 10682 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-015-9773-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-015-9773-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Endler John Centre of Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, 75 Pigdons Road, 3216, Waurn Ponds, VIC, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Evolutionary Ecology Springer International Publishing 29/4(2015-07-01), 465-478 0269-7653 29:4<465 2015 29 10682