ABSTRACT
Every journal that is published supplies specific Instructions to Authors. If every author followed these instructions when preparing a manuscript, there would be only a limited need for a book such as this one. Every journal has its own specific set of instructions and, even though the instructions for submissions to all the journals produced by a particular scientific publisher tend to be very similar, different publishers provide different instructions. Authors tend to get lazy or, perhaps, I should say that they get carried away with the idea of publishing their research and, as a result, they prepare their manuscripts according to some preconceived idea or on the basis of a manuscript that they have published previously. Careful preparation before starting to write will save you time and spare you frustration later on. In publishing, as in everything else in life, it pays to READ THE INSTRUCTIONS.
