You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but if you're deep in the perplexity of your own process, as you should be, sorting it out in your own way, nothing is going to guide you more than small gestures of encouragement.
We thank current and past members of the Engel lab for their advice, comments on the manuscript, and initial contributions to this work.
We thank Inés Valencia and Paola Laiolo for help in the field and A. Baz, M. Carrete, J. Figuerola, F. Hiraldo, R. Jovani, P. Laiolo, C. Manjavacas, R.C. Soriguer, D. Serrano and J.L. Tella for advice, comments and encouragement.
We also thank AJ Abrams, B Ball, N Baron, L Bukovnic, MR Dickison, J Grant-Mackie, B Grayson, CM Henzler, DJ Holloway, BY Kong, PS Manos, J Miadlikowska, MP Miglietta, AB Murray, KM Pryer, AL Sweigart, C Riginos, J Spring, M Vallejo-Marin, and GA Wray for advice, comments, and technical assistance.
Selection criteria Articles with objective scientific information or advice, comments, opinions, or the experience of ordinary women or celebrities on delivery by caesarean section.
Among the 630 articles in this study, 121 (19.2%) included acknowledgment sections that identified contributions to the manuscript such as review, advice, comments, analysis, and various forms of assistance.
"This tells us something sophisticated about giving advice," commented Myers.
Notes may be classified according to a classification including, e.g. advice, comment, example, explanation and question.
DR, PD, BA and SVDV gave methodological advice, commented on subsequent drafts of the paper and reviewed the final text.
We are grateful to Dr. A. Iguchi for commenting on this study and two anonymous reviewers for advice and comments on the manuscript.
We wish to thank Martin Asser Hansen for helpful bioinformatics advice and comments on the manuscript, and Lutz Krause and Lucia Clemens-Daxinger for providing helpful comments.
