It’s been 25 years since physicist Alan Sokal punked academe by getting a purposely nonsensical paper published in a peer-reviewed journal. And it’s been almost as long since the journal Philosophy ...

An abstract is a summary of a piece of academic writing. The abstract appears in multiple locations, including at the start of a publication, in conference proceedings, and in electronic databases.

This is the second Perspective in a miniseries aiming to provide basic guidelines and share best practice for scientific writing, especially to novice writers of refereed papers in astronomy. In the ...