Ten simple rules for collaboratively writing a multi-authored paper

Marieke A Frassl; David P Hamilton; Blaize A Denfeld; Elvira de Eyto; Stephanie E Hampton; Philipp S Keller; Sapna Sharma; Abigail S L Lewis; Gesa A Weyhenmeyer; Catherine M O'Reilly; Mary E Lofton; Núria Catalán

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006508

Ten simple rules for collaboratively writing a multi-authored paper

PLoS Comput Biol. 2018 Nov 15;14(11):e1006508. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006508. eCollection 2018 Nov.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia.
² Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
³ Marine Institute, Furnace, Newport, Co. Mayo, Ireland.
⁴ Center for Environmental Research, Education and Outreach, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America.
⁵ UFZ, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Lake Research, Magdeburg, Germany.
⁶ Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁷ Department of Biology, Pomona College, Claremont, California, United States of America.
⁸ Department of Ecology and Genetics/Limnology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
⁹ Department of Geography, Geology, and the Environment, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, United States of America.
¹⁰ Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America.
¹¹ Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Girona, Spain.

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Communication
Cooperative Behavior*
Ecology / methods
Ethics, Research
Humans
Leadership
Publications*
Publishing / ethics
Publishing / standards
Science / methods*
Social Behavior
Writing*

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON; www.gleon.org). ML and PK received the GLEON student travel fund. GW was supported by the Swedish Research Council, Grant No. 2016-04153. NC had the support of the Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral programme (BP-2016-00215). PK was supported by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, grant SP 1570/1-1). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.