Resources for manuscript preparation

• Notes from Ming Xue to his students/supervisees: OU Writing Center can be a valuable resource to help you improve your writing. I will make it compulsory that you work with them before handing to me your paper/thesis/dissertation, if they are in a bad shape.

  I also make it compulsory that you use Endnote for citations and use automatic cross-reference to figures, and pay strict attention to formatting and other requirements specified by the journals to which your paper will be submitted. The format is controlled by Endnote style file which can be downloaded from Endnote and/or jounral websites, created by yourself.     Endnote Style files are placed in Styles folder of the Endnote Program directory. The full Endnote Manual is found within the Endnote Program directory as a PDF file.
  

  I strongly recommend careful reading of book Elequent Scienc: A Pratical Guide to Becoming a Better Write, Speaker and Scientist, a book written by an expeienced atmospheric scientist and journal editor.
  

• AMS Journal Author's Guide  and Local Copy of an old version and a brief version of the guide (old)
• A brief version of the AMS Journal Author's Guide (old local copy)
• AMS Math Formula Preparation Guide
• AMS final figure check list
  
  
• AMS Confererence Preprint Instruction, e.g., 16th NWP Conference Instruction
• MS Word template for AMS manuscript (use this as a template for your manuscript!)

• Use of Endnote software for reference management and automatic compilation. OU has a site license. Obtain it from http://itstore.ou.edu. You should learn it - it will save you a huge amount of time if you write often. Ming Xue has a large collection of references in his Endnote Library file that he can share with his students and collaborators (ask for it from him).  His students are strongly encouraged to use the same library files for their papers, because Endnote uses record numbers of references in the library to cite the papers, and the record numbers are specific for individual libraries (i.e., writings using different libraries cannot be easily merged).  
  
  
• AGU Tools for Authors
• AGU Grammar and Style Guide for Authors and Local copy

• Vector graphics editing software Adobe Illustrator - you are strongly recommended to learn it. It makes preparing for publication-quality graphics a lot easier.  It can used to directly edit vector graphics, including editting contours (e.g., changing line color, thickness, overlaying different contour fields, etc, not faking them though!), and adding labels. OU has a site license for Illustrator as part of the Adobe CC Suite, and it can be installed directly from Adobe.com by signing using OU's account. 
• Many resources are available on the web for learning Illustrator, including Adobe site and Youtube (search for yourself).  

• An example of well written article by Andreas and Emanuel (2001).You are strongly recommended to carefully study this manuscript, and analyze its structure and organization
  
  
• Geerts, B., 1999: Trends in Atmospheric Science Journals: A Reader's Perspective. BAMS, 80, 639-652.
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• Johnson, R. H. and W. H. Schubert, 1989: Publication Trends in American Meteorological Society Technical Journals. BAMS, 70, 476-479.
• Schultz (2010) How to research and write effective case studies in meteorology, EJSSM, 5, 1-18.
• Boote, D. N., and P. Beile, 2005: Scholars before researchers: On the centrality of the dissertation literature review in research preparation. Educ. Res., 34 (6), 3–15, https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X034006003. Crossref