<p>Ok, I know you guys are probably sick of this, but I can't think of a better place to ask.</p>
<p>When I send in my research paper, let me get this right:</p>
<ul>
<li>I have big brown envelope</li>
</ul>
<p>-1 original and 3 copies of paper = 4 research papers, with abstract stapled to top of each research paper</p>
<p>-3(1 original, 2 copies) confirmation pages, not stapled to research papers</p>
<ul>
<li><p>4 title pages, NOT stapled to research papers</p></li>
<li><p>Small sealed/signed envelope from mentor with 4(1 original, 2 copies) of mentor form</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Fedexed overnight on thursday.</p>
<p>Any thing I am doing wrong? I'm kinda of nervous, since I'm the team leader, and have to fill out the paper work, and I don't want to mess something up. Are the siemens people really strict, like, "he stapled title page on top of research paper, disqualified!" ?</p>
<p>you'll be fine....</p>
<p>the hardest thing is getting a staple through those darn papers! arghh</p>
<p>'Three original copies of the Research Report are to be submitted so that all graphics and colors are clear on all copies.'</p>
<p>'One original and two copies of the Confirmation Page are required. Attach one to each of the three original copies of the Research Report.'</p>
<p>Three copies not four or I'm going to shoot myself in the foot.</p>
<p>lol i used medium sized staples</p>
<p>lol, yes getting the staples in on the drafts was hard.</p>
<p>Doing final edit tonight, and doing US Postal Express Overnight thing tomorrow. </p>
<p>Are we allowed to submit our report to other journals after entering siemens? I was thinking nature, science, discover... yeah right! Maybe a few more specific journals like Neuron, though they probably won't accept.</p>
<p>One question: On the confirmation page, i printed, and it won't come out all nicely, so I copied into word document, and it came out perfectly. I got it signed and everything. Will they get angry because I didn't print directly from IE? </p>
<p>Yes, I am very paranoid as you can probably tell, but I've come to far to mess up now.</p>
<p>'I was thinking nature, science, discover'</p>
<p>wow u must have a very good paper.. nature only accepts 5 % of papers submitted.</p>
<p>(Warning! Grouchy undergrad alert!)</p>
<p>Yeah, 5% of the papers submitted by postdocs/PIs in good labs with earthshattering research.</p>
<p>i agree.. i was being on the optimistic side lol..</p>
<p>i dont think they allow papers from first-time authors.. you have to have great credentials to validate your work. oh, and earthshattering research!</p>
<p>Haha seriously, nature has one of the highest impact factors (a quantitative measurement of the quality of a journal). Just to give an idea, New England Journal of Medicine I believe has the highest impact factor of around 34000, and Nature is somewhere along the lines of 33000.</p>
<p>Yeah, I was just joking about nature. But def try and publish in that in like 5+ years.</p>
<p>I read nature though.</p>
<p>I stayed up till 3am printing and stuff.</p>
<p>You guys were correct, the stapling job is very tough indeed.</p>
<p>*fall asleep.</p>
<p>lmao mollieb! The disclaimer is awesome :P</p>
<p>Once we submit our project, are we allowed to share our paper with others?</p>
<p>Were we not supposed to staple the title page to the research papers? I did.</p>
<p>sorry, i did too. I kind of didn't know what I was talking about when I posted this.</p>
<p>I've heard that the title page stays with the paper, and that they collect the personal info, and black it out with perm marker or something.</p>