Tools for Authors
This page brings together details of software and other tools that may be helpful to BioMed Central authors when formatting manuscripts for submission.
Reference management software
We recommend authors to use reference management software to ensure that their reference lists are correctly formatted.
BioMed Central's website allows references to be seamlessly downloaded and imported into the following reference management packages:
Proofing tools
SciProof is a professional
tool for scientific proofing, spell-checking and style-checking. It works
with Microsoft Word, and although itis currently Windows only, a Mac version
is under development. Read a review
of Sciproof in The Scientist.
Graphics conversion tools
The following tools may be useful if you need to convert figures into a format suitable for submission to BioMed Central:
For tips and advice on figure cropping issues, see our figure cropping FAQ.
Statistics tools
Graphpad software offers a selection of free online calculators
for doing quick statistical calculations.
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