Instructions for writing up Mini-Review PDF

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Instructions for writing up Mini-review – Assessment Task #1 AIM: - Produce a publication quality scientific review paper. - The topic can be anything in the area of Medical Devices and/or Diagnostic Technologies. - Format should be “Mini-review” size: • 2000-3000 words, • 1-2 figures and/or tables, • >10 references - It should look like a real mini-review publication.

WHY: - worth 35% of subject mark. - The top 3 mini-reviews will be selected for publication. The subject coordinator will work with the winners to submit the manuscript to a journal. - Publication in scientific journals is an important skill for careers that involve research, both academic and industrial.

BASIC APPROACH TO PUT TOGETHER THE MINI-REVIEW: 1- Choose a topic. It can be anything within the field of Medical Devices and/or Diagnostic Technologies. 2- Read up on your topic to gain expertise. It is recommended to compile at least 20 references. Based on your reading, start to form a picture of where the field is at and what the current challenges are. 3- figure out what you will write about and determine the structure. The structure can follow a basic outline such as: - start with the motivation. Why care about this topic? Why are pacemakers important? - introduce specific problem/question you will focus on within this topic. For example, your mini-review might focus on the designs of different pacemakers, comparing their pros/cons, and how future devices might address the current challenges. - explore the problem/question. This will be the bulk of the content of your mini-review. For example, you might compare the design of the main pacemakers that are used. You must use journal publications to support all your arguments and statements. You will need to cite medical and scientific literature, not wikipedia articles or news articles. - summarize what we have learnt by analysing the literature. - conclude with a unique perspective or opinion based on what you have learnt. It could be a prediction about the future of pacemakers or whether or not another technology will make them obsolete. This perspective needs to be grounded in the facts you have laid (and backed up with citations) earlier. 4- Write up the manuscript according to your structure and the message you want to communicate. Add 1 or 2 figures, which can either come from another journal article or,

ideally, you create this figure yourself. Make sure the figure has a caption. 5- Format your manuscript and reference list to look like a scientific publication. 6- Revise mistakes, get feedback from tutors (recommended), then submit via Turnitin portal on UTS online. You will be able to see your “originality score” for each submission and make corrections wherever necessary before the due date. (Be aware that Turnitin may take 24 - 48 hrs to generate your originality score). Due date: 11:59 pm on 6th September 2019. You will be able to submit as many times as you want prior to the due date but only the latest version will be assessed. Any submission after the due date will be marked late and will begin to attract penalty of 20% per day. After the 6th day submissions will no longer be accepted.

TIPS: 1. Searching for literature – the recommended databases for finding journal papers are: - Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/ The higher number of citations usually the more trusted the article. - Pubmed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed If pay-walls block access to the pdf, it is recommended to use sci-hub: Sci-hub: https://sci-hub.se/ Copy paste the article DOI into the search box and hit open. The pdf should appear within seconds. 2. Putting together the content of the mini-review: Sections of the Mini-review in order: - Title - Authors (add affiliation as UTS School of Life Sciences and correspondence as your UTS email) - Abstract (5-10 sentence summary of your review) - Introduction (2-3 paragraphs) - Body of the review with subheadings to break up sections (80% of the text +1-2 figures and/or tables), - Conclusions/Outlook (1-3 paragraphs) - Acknowledgements (acknowledge any help. For example, you can acknowledge your tutor or a particular lecturer) - References 3. Creating Figures and/or Tables: To accompany the text in the body of your mini-review add 1 or 2 figures and/or tables. Recommended software for producing graphics: - Adobe illustrator / photoshop (free trial available)

- CorelDRAW (free trial available) - Google drawings (free) Below each figure/table should be a caption explaining the figure/table. If borrowing the figure/table (or parts of it) from other journal papers this must be referenced in the caption.

4. Formatting and managing references: The references should be numbered. For example: In the main text the citation would appear as number 41: “Medical applications of iPSCs include in vitro expansion for drug screening of patient cells and gene therapy before reimplantation41.” In the references section, the full citation would appears as the following: (41) Robinton, D. A.; Daley, G. Q. The Promise of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Research and Therapy. Nature 2012, 481, 295−305. Recommended reference software: - Endnote - Zotero - Mendeley

Personally I use the following software: - Microsoft word for putting together a manuscript. - Adobe illustrator for creating figures. - Endnote for managing and formatting references. Here are examples of reviews I have published: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19764 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00678

Note: you will be marked on the final product, not which software or methods you use. Feel free to use any software you prefer....