Dr. Yamaguchi's Friendly Tips in Writing a Scientific Paper

• Start writing the paper when you begin to set up the input file(s), or when you decide to do the investigation
• Start writing the paper from the part that is easiest for you.
• Fill in the spaces in the table(s) whenever the result(s) become(s) available.
• Keep all final outputs involving:
  1. optimized geometries
  2. harmonic vibrational frequencies
  3. IR intensities
  4. dipole moments
  5. etc.
  until the paper is published
• Check all information appearing in the paper at least three times. If you have a coauthor, have them check information over.
  1. information above
  2. basis sets description
  3. number CSF's
  4. C₁ value
  5. t₁ value
• Try to work on multiple projects, if possible.