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Tools for authorsThis page brings together details of software and other tools that may be helpful to BioMed Central authors when formatting manuscripts for submission. PMC TeX/BibTeX templatesTeX/LaTeX users should use PhysMath Central's TeX template and associated BibTeX stylefile. If you have used another template for your manuscript, or if you do not wish to use BibTeX, then please submit your manuscript as a DVI file. We do not recommend converting to RTF. Reference management softwareWe 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: Authors who use the latest versions of EndNote and Reference Manager to format their references also benefit from a US $50 discount on BioMed Central's Article Processing Charge. Proofing toolsSciProof 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. Graphics conversion toolsThe 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 toolsGraphpad software offers a selection of free online calculators for doing quick statistical calculations. XML-based article authoring toolsPublicon is a powerful scientific authoring tool. Incorporating the equation-editing engine of Mathematica, a logical reference manager, and all the features you expect from a word processor - Publicon's WYSIWYG interface enables authors to submit their manuscript as XML and MathML to BioMed Central journals in the form of Publicon's native Notebook (.NB) file. See our Publicon information page. Submitting in XML brings many benefits including:
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