Deliens, Luc, and Julia M Addington-Hall, 'How to write a research paper for peer-reviewed journals', in Irene J Higginson, and others (eds), Research Methods in Palliative, Supportive, and End-of-Life Care, Second edition (Oxford, 2025; online edn, Oxford Academic, 22 May 2025), https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191924644.003.0028, accessed 13 Aug. 2025.
Abstract
Writing papers for peer-reviewed journals requires many academic writing skills. Once one has those skills, one will profit from them for the rest of one’s career. This chapter discusses the writing process that a researcher follows once the results of a study can be reported. This method has been developed within the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University-based Interdisciplinary End-of-Life Care Research Group and has been evidenced by more than 600 papers published in scientific journals in a broad variety of domains, from paediatrics to geriatrics and from clinical to social sciences journals. It includes detailed steps such as reflecting before writing, planning, developing a first outline, writing drafts, writing the abstract, choosing the right journal, and submitting one’s paper. A paper has to tell a clear ‘story’, and everything in a research paper must either lead to or lead from the research questions and aims to be very inclusive.
