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Authors' Guide

For authors and presenters, particularly researchers publishing journal articles

Writing Help

Steps, tips, and encouragement for writing articles:

Statistics

Using Statistics

Selecting and presenting your data can be intimidating.  Results of research often report on numbers of various kinds, including "statistics" and analysis.

Advanced, or beginner, there's a book to help.  The BC Cancer Library has many books and ebooks on statistics.

Statistics Done Wrong - the woefully complete guide.(Full book online)

 A guide to the most popular statistical errors and slip-ups committed by scientists every day, in the lab and in peer-reviewed journals. Many of the errors are prevalent in vast swaths of the published literature, casting doubt on the findings of thousands of papers. Statistics Done Wrong assumes no prior knowledge of statistics, so you can read it before your first statistics course or after thirty years of scientific practice.

BC Cancer Provincial Statistics

BC Cancer Statistics are reported cumulatively and available online. If you need more specific details for your research, contact the Data Req office. 

Additional places to find Canadian and International cancer & health statistics are listed on Recommended Websites: Statistics Websites.

Peer Review

A beginner's guide to peer review

Step-by-step guides for the novice peer reviewer, from BioMedcentral blog:

Part 1 - Deciding whether to accept an invitation to peer review

Part 2 - How to begin the process

Part 3 - How to write a good peer review report



 The BC Cancer library system consists of a central library at Vancouver Centre, and branches in Abbotsford, Kelowna, Prince George, and Victoria where both patient and professional collections are available on site. Librarian staff are available at all centres, including Surrey.