EASE Guidelines for Authors and Translators of Scientific Articles to be Published in English

The current edition is freely available in 30 languages: the English original and the translations into Arabic, Armenian, Bangla, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

In May 2020 we are delighted to have celebrated the 10th anniversary of the first issue of the EASE Guidelines. See our Jubilee article for the full story.

The EASE Guidelines for Authors and Translators of Scientific Articles to be Published in English provide simple, clear advice aimed at making international scientific communication more efficient. They also draw attention to ethical issues such as authorship criteria, plagiarism, conflict of interests and more. This concise and readable set of editorial guidelines was first published by EASE in 2010 and updated annually until 2018.

In the latest edition of the Guidelines we have made 3 important improvements:

  • an added sentence encouraging all authors to register for an ORCID iD (on page e2),
  • an added sentence stressing the need to formulate the tested hypothesis in the introduction, if possible (on page e3),
  • the outdated term “self-plagiarism” replaced by “content recycling”, with its short definition (on page e4).

We are grateful to our team of volunteers who have translated these Guidelines into many other languages. If you would like to volunteer in this way please contact the Secretary.

Instructions to Authors

We encourage journal editors to include the following formula in their Instructions to Authors:

“Before submission, follow the EASE Guidelines for Authors and Translators, freely available in many languages at www.ease.org.uk/publications/author-guidelines. Adherence should increase the chances of acceptance of submitted manuscripts.”

Recommended citation format of the English version

[EASE] European Association of Science Editors. 2018. EASE Guidelines for Authors and Translators of Scientific Articles to be Published in English. European Science Editing 44(4):e1-e16. doi:10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1

Disclaimer

Only the English version of EASE Guidelines has been fully approved by the EASE Council. Translations into other languages are provided as a service to our readers and have not been validated by EASE or any other organisation. EASE therefore accepts no legal responsibility for the consequences of the use of the translations. Please note that in the translated files only the links in the reference list are active. Blue in-text references denote those that are available online.

List of Guideline Translations and DOIs

English
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1
Arabic
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.ara
Armenian
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.am
Bangla
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.ban
Bosnian
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.bos
Bulgarian
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.bul
Chinese
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.cn
Croatian
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.hr
Czech
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.cz
Dutch
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.nl
Estonian
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.ee
Finnish
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.fi
French
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.fr
German
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.ger
Greek
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.gr
Hungarian
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.hu
Indonesian
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.in
Italian
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.it
Japanese
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.jp
Korean
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.kor
Persian
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.per
Polish
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.pl
Portuguese
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.pt
Romanian
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.ro
Russian
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.ru
Serbian
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.ser
Slovenian
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.si
Spanish
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.sp
Turkish
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.tr
Vietnamese
https://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.vn
Ukrainian
htps://doi.org/10.20316/ESE.2018.44.e1.ua