Correct Attribution of Authorship in Scientific Papers: Examining the Works of Shakespeare, Bacon, Marlowe, and More

1. Correct attribution of authorship in scientific papers Shakespeare W, Bacon F, Marlowe C, Stanley W, De Vere E, Cobbley T et al. Department of Sexual Health, Stratford-upon-Avon Results Hermione, queen to the worthy Leontes, king of Sicilia, thou art here accused and arraigned of high treason, in committing adultery with Polixenes, king of Bohemia, and conspiring with Camillo to take away the life of our sovereign lord the king, thy royal husband: the pretence whereof being by circumstances partly laid open, thou, Hermione, contrary to the faith and allegiance of a true subject, didst counsel and aid them, for their better safety, to fly away by night. Since what I am to say must be but that which contradicts my accusation and the testimony on my part no other but what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me to say 'not guilty:' Mine integrity being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it, be so received. But thus: if powers divine behold our human actions, as they do, I doubt not then but innocence shall make false accusation blush and tyranny tremble at patience. Background Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and Summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, and oft' is his gold complexion dimm'd; Methods And every fair from fair sometime declines, by chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd: But thy eternal Summer shall not fade nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade, when in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee. EXAMPLE Conclusions To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. Soft you now! The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember'd. And thus, my friends and bretheren here assembl’d, p<0.01, Q.E.D. Design: PG 3/13

2. Poster design requirements & tips for BASHH Bristol 2013 GOOD: Correct orientation to fit poster boards Landscape NOT Portrait Clear text in sans-serif typeface eg: Calibri, Arial, VerdanaNOT Times New Roman  BAD: Too much writing –or at least no more than this: a poster must be read quickly & is a brief summary of the relevant parts of your work, not the entire research paper ! Mixed column styles: choose either Ranged left or Justified (Ctrl+J), not both 1. Posters must be LANDSCAPE as they will be A1 size mounted one above the other on 2 x 1 metre boards 2. Alternatively the poster could be made of two A2 Portrait sections mounted side by side, for ease of carrying 3. Total poster area must be no bigger than A1 size (841mm wide x 594mm high) 4. Design in PowerPoint – start by adjusting Page Setup FROM “On-screen Show 4:3” TO “A4 Paper (210x297mm)” 5. The commercial printer can then resize the image to A1 without affecting the proportions of typeface & images 6. We suggest an absolute minimum readable typeface size of 12pt. - or preferably 14pt. - this is 16pt. and you can use 10pt. for references etc 7. Posters will be displayed in the Palm Court room (ground floor), with a rolling electronic screen display upstairs in the main area 8. Save a copy & send it (as.ppt or .pdf) to peter.greenhouse@uhbristol.nhs.uk or bring on a memory stick for the electronic display