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Discussion Groups / English Usage / November 2006Comma = "and"
From _The Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery_, "INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS" page: <http://edmgr.ovid.com/prs/accounts/ifauth.htm> [quote] Manuscript Length/Number of Figures To enhance quality, readability and to be more competitive with other leading scientific journals, all manuscripts must now conform to the new word-count standards for article length and limited number of figure pieces: [/quote] Groan.  SignatureFranke: EFL teacher & medical editor Native speaker of American English; posting from Taiwan. Unmunged email: /at/easypeasy.com "Impatience is the mother of misery." Title correction for journal. Sorry about that. > From _Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery_, > "INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS" page: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Groan. SignatureFranke: EFL teacher & medical editor Native speaker of American English; posting from Taiwan. Unmunged email: /at/easypeasy.com "Impatience is the mother of misery." > To enhance quality, readability and to be more competitive with other > leading scientific journals, all manuscripts must now conform to the > new word-count standards for article length and limited number of > figure pieces: One also presumes that they mean for their journal to be more competitive with other leading journals, not for submitted manuscripts to be competitive with &c. But that's not what they wrote. I dunno about Groan, but for sure Sigh . . . . >> To enhance quality, readability and to be more competitive with other >> leading scientific journals, all manuscripts must now conform to the [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > I dunno about Groan, but for sure Sigh . . . . My reaction was "Meaning?" Regards Jonathan |
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