I agree with all of suggestions above. In my opinion, I think everyone has their own methods and tips to write a good paper. Followings is just my experiences I would to share with you:

- First, spend a lot of time with literature review to get an overview picture of the research field I am following. Which topics is the new one? Which is have not done yet? Which should be reviewed?… So I can determine the special topic/target of my research.

- Second, when I doing literature review, take notes some "good key idea" from papers I reviewed, this will help me to build my story more logic and attractive.

- Third, if some good few results come out from my research, I start to write my paper, I don't need to wait until I have all of results. It will help me to save my time.

- Fourth, start with experimental/methodology/method of research section (usually the 2nd section after the Introduction section in a paper). This is the easiest section for writing. After completed it, I will have some motivation to continue with my paper.

- Fifth, try to write a very interesting, informative and logical Introduction. Try to make my story as much attractive as possible. More attractive my story, higher possibility my paper will be accepted. Usually, in the whole paper, this section will take my time the most to complete it. So, let invest time for it.

- Sixth, I don't put all of my results into the paper. Just select the most decent results. Some journals have limited figures and pages for a paper. Of course, I must confirm that I can regenerate those results. (It means that when I repeat my experiment/calculation/survey… I will get the very similar result)

- Seventh, try to make a good Conclusion. A good Conclusion often suggests some potential/practical applications of the research, or bring new ways/ideas for my research field.

- Eighth, use Endnote or a certain software that can help me to cite/quote and make the References more easily.

- Ninth, select a journal that have view, scope, and impact factor that are suitable for my paper, follow their recommended format to complete my paper.

- Tenth, if possible, first try with some conference paper, generally it is easier to be accepted and will give me a lot of experience in writing a good paper.

I hope that my experiences can help you. Best regards,

Choose your journal paper and folow the help to the authors. The tips change with the journal

In order to write a Journal Paper you need to do research.

You should have a problem in mind regarding the area you want to work on. You need to review the literature holistically and if you do so then you will be flooded with ideas about research. After having a clear idea after following the above given steps, you will have to club all your idea together and put it on paper.

Literature review will give you an idea about how to proceed and what to do to write papers.

However, the tips related to paper publication depends on the journal that you select for publication.

The best advice I can give is to write and write a lot throughout your research work. The more you write while thinking about results, forming conclusions, and analyzing data, the easier it will be to think in those terms when it comes to writing the journal paper. In addition, this will give you pages and pages of good usable text that you can adapt and plug into whatever writing piece you may be working on.

Go through these links.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/sep/06/academic-journal-writing-top-tips.

[2] http://www-distance.syr.edu/writingtips.html

I agree with all of suggestions above. In my opinion, I think everyone has their own methods and tips to write a good paper. Followings is just my experiences I would to share with you:

- First, spend a lot of time with literature review to get an overview picture of the research field I am following. Which topics is the new one? Which is have not done yet? Which should be reviewed?… So I can determine the special topic/target of my research.

- Second, when I doing literature review, take notes some "good key idea" from papers I reviewed, this will help me to build my story more logic and attractive.

- Third, if some good few results come out from my research, I start to write my paper, I don't need to wait until I have all of results. It will help me to save my time.

- Fourth, start with experimental/methodology/method of research section (usually the 2nd section after the Introduction section in a paper). This is the easiest section for writing. After completed it, I will have some motivation to continue with my paper.

- Fifth, try to write a very interesting, informative and logical Introduction. Try to make my story as much attractive as possible. More attractive my story, higher possibility my paper will be accepted. Usually, in the whole paper, this section will take my time the most to complete it. So, let invest time for it.

- Sixth, I don't put all of my results into the paper. Just select the most decent results. Some journals have limited figures and pages for a paper. Of course, I must confirm that I can regenerate those results. (It means that when I repeat my experiment/calculation/survey… I will get the very similar result)

- Seventh, try to make a good Conclusion. A good Conclusion often suggests some potential/practical applications of the research, or bring new ways/ideas for my research field.

- Eighth, use Endnote or a certain software that can help me to cite/quote and make the References more easily.

- Ninth, select a journal that have view, scope, and impact factor that are suitable for my paper, follow their recommended format to complete my paper.

- Tenth, if possible, first try with some conference paper, generally it is easier to be accepted and will give me a lot of experience in writing a good paper.

I hope that my experiences can help you. Best regards,

I agree with all the above answers. I also suggest you the following webinar :

http://view6.workcast.net/?pak=7834375189685427 , entitled "How to write high-impact research papers", presented by the managing editor of Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry. You will find there a lot of valuable suggestions.

Good luck!

All the respected members have added good suggestions. I just want to add something into that. It is very important to write a good abstract showing novelity of ur research and important findings. In addition a good Introduction is always very handy to make your point very clear to the reviewers. If they comfortable with their abstract, introduction and good literature review then the job of reviewer become mor easy to look for yourcfinidings, novelity etc.I hope these points wil help young researchers who have started to publish in good journals.

In addition to the excellent suggestions in the other answers, some further tips and links can be found here: http://aclinks.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/how-to-write-a-really-good-research-paper/

I found this talk on "How to write a good research paper" inspiring:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/giving-a-talk/giving-a-talk.htm

(Not everything there is about giving talks, the URL is misleading. But the other materials there are probably interesting as well.)

Very good advices - and thank you Artur, Kunal, Joshua, and Matthias for the links ... of course will not forget Michael, Samir and Son... appreciated.

Well, after all, when you have a solid research you will be able to come up with more than one paper from that data and analysis.

Once you have your research done, try to specify the purpose of your paper in the following manner: The purpose of this paper is to (select the most precise VERB, and then add the direct object of the verb). Immediately after, write the means you used to get the results you found. An example: The purpose of this paper is to describe the molecular recognition of hevein in complex with IgG antibodies by means of homonuclear TOCSY NMR. Then, select the keywords of your purpose and use them to find information in Information Systems from academic editors like Elsevier, ProQuest, EBSCO, Cambridge, and so on. After, you can do a Linguistic storm (see my article INFOPRAGMATICS, available in Research Gate) to get pertinent information such as state of the art, and/or current trends. These last two aspects warrantee, in some way, that you are not repeating results already published, and that your contribution to the body of knowledge is going to be welcomed by the editors. Finally, I am sure you are going to become familiar with authors, methods and journals that can esaily become candiates to send your research paper to be published.

I have comments, in addition to the above, which for a writer is simple rules to follow, if you want your manuscript to be published in a good journal.

You have to have something to write, then

Follow the structure of a scientific article (most journals have standard form), follow the general rules of writing and decide where your work best placed or fit with the aims and scope of the journal. Follow the details of instructions to the author and understand the steps after submission. Of course, do not give up and understand the peer review process. This will help you to get your paper published.

Thanks all, in addition to consider the value of reading widely, There are general rules of writing and many studies outlined these. I may say again that the author has to understand the simple rules of writing such as never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out, then cut it out. Keep sentence constructions simple. Avoid one-sentence paragraphs. Use simple punctuation.