Writing well is an important skill and directly affects research dissemination. The following resources, many of which can be accessed completely online, combined with in-person assistance from staff can help with the writing process.
Style Guides
- American Medical Association (AMA) Manual of Style: a guide for authors and editors
- Chicago Manual of Style
- Citing Medicine: the NLM style guide for authors, editors and publishers
- Columbia Guide to Online Style
- Complete Guide to Citing Government Information Resources: a manual for writers and librarians
- Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA)
- Scientific Style and Format: the CBE manual for authors, editors and publishers
- World's Easiest Guide to Using the APA: a user-friendly manual for formatting research papers according to the American Psychological Association style guide
- Writing for Health Care Professions
Copyright Compliance
Proposal and Grant Writing
- Directory of Operating Grants: a reference directory identifying general operating grants available to non-profit organizations.
- Directory of Research Grants
- Grant Application Writer's Handbook
- Guide to Effective Grant Writing: how to write a successful NIH grant
- Qualitative Research Proposals and Reports: a guide
- Research Proposals: a guide to success
- Foundation Center's Guide to Proposal Writing
- Grants Register
- Writing the NIH Grant Proposal: a step-by-step guide
- Columbia's Scholarly Communication Program's overview of the NIH Public Access Policy
- NIH requirement for disclosure of financial conflict of interest
Research Papers, Theses and Dissertations
- Guide to the Successful Thesis and Dissertation: a handbook for students and faculty
- How to Write a Paper
- Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations
- MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
- MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing
- Research Proposals: a guide to success
Publishing in Professional Journals
- COAP Fund (Columbia Open-Access Publication Fund)
- How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper
- How to Write and Publish in the Medical Sciences
- Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences (links to writing guidelines for over 6,000 journals)
- Journal Author Name Estimator (JANE) (offers help in finding the best journal for publishing a paper).
- Publishing and Presenting Clinical Research
- Clinician's Guide to Medical Writing
- Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
- Writer's Guide to Nursing Periodicals
- Writing and Getting Published: a primer for nurses