7.1 Check your journal’s style - first person or passive
Check your journal’s ‘guidelines to authors’ to see whether you are permitted to use
we
. If you can use ‘we’ then it is relatively easy for you to distinguish between your
work and others. Some journals, particularly those regarding Physics, tend to opt
for an impersonal form in the belief that science is independent of the person writ-
ing about it. This entails adopting a lower profile and using the passive form
(Sect.
7.2
).
If your journal insists on the passive form, you need to be extremely careful. The
most important point to remember is that YOU know which is your work and which
is someone else’s. But the readers do not! You must make it clear for THEM.
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