中南大学研究生学术交流英语期末翻译.pdf

.. 1. P5 A helpful image is to think about submitting a manuscript to an international journal as a way of participating in the international scientific community. You are, in effect, joining an international conversation. To join this conversation, you need to know what has already been said by the other people conversing. In other words, you need to understand the ‘‘cutting edge ’’of your scientific discipline: what work is being done now by the important players in the field internationally. This means: 向国际学术杂志投稿有助于进入国际学术界， 事实上你加入了国际间的交流。 加入国际间的 交流你需要了解其他人已经说了什么。换句话说，你需要了解你的学科“前沿”：即国际上 你的研究领域中重量级的科学工作者正在做什么。这意味着你需要： ● getting access to the journals where people in the field are publishing; ● subscribing to the e-mail alert schemes offered by journal publishers on their websites so that you receive tables of contents when new issues are published; and ● developing skills for searching the Internet and electronic databases in libraries to which you have access. ● 阅读你的研究领域中科技工作者发表论文的杂志； ● 通过杂志出版商网站订阅他们通过电子邮件发送的杂志目录，可以收到杂志出版商 提供的最新一期杂志的目录； ● 提升你在网络和图书馆电子数据库查阅资料的技能。 2. P15 Each journal has its own set of instructions for referees and sometimes these are available on the journal ’s website. You should check and see whether this is the case for the journal you are targeting, and obtain a copy if possible. For the purposes of this book, we have constructed a composite list of referee criteria that includes the sorts of questions referees are commonly asked to respond to (Figure 3.1). In addition to ‘‘ticking the boxes ’’ to provide yes/no answers to the questions, referees are asked to write their comments about any problems with the manuscript or any suggestions for improvement that need to be followed before the