It is through your publications rather than your whole PhD that your work will usually become known. How important this is will determine how much you publish. So if you are thinking about a career in which publishing is not important, then don't unnecessarily divide your attention between your PhD and publication. If you want to publish, you need to consider how closely you are keeping your publications to your PhD. Is it the kind of work in which chunks lend themselves to publication? If 'yes', think about the future structure of your thesis as a document so you can try to turn your papers into chapters or subsections of chapters. It is a good idea to identify possible publications at an early stage, rather than wait until you have done some work and then wonder if it could make a paper. The other possibility is to publish papers on side issues. These are not part of your thesis as such but interest you enough for you to want to pursue them. Be careful, of course, that you do not devote all of your energy to these issues to the neglect of the thesis. Journals Once you have decided to publish, you have to consider which are the most appropriate journals in your field. You would already have some idea about what is published where, because of course you are reading these very journals. But now you have to make a deliberate effort to look at their editorial policies, to see if what you are doing fits their profile and to learn about the publishing conventions they require. As soon as you've decided to write an article for publication, do this screening of journals because the journal's requirements, and its likely audience, will determine how you write the article. Writing the article first and then trying to match it to a journal is much more difficult. There are two main reasons why so many papers are not accepted for publication. First, they are submitted to the wrong journal. And second, they are rejected for the same reasons that some theses are found lacking. So, what you need is a clear statement of the point of your research, a logical argument which carries through the whole thing, and a clear indication of the significance of your findings. The main difference between the article and the thesis is that your review of previous relevant research would, of course, be very short and directly to the point. Follow strictly the journal's formal requirements for publication and ask several colleagues and/or other readers to give you as much feedback on the work as possible before you submit it. It is worth rewriting it several times keeping it clear, short and to the point to increase your chances of acceptance. The question of authorship of publications has to be resolved well ahead. Find out the practice in your department and your supervisor's expectations regarding joint authorship of any articles you write during the PhD candidature. Whether or not your supervisor or others are included, and also the position of names of joint authors, will depend on the extent of the intellectual input of each party.

	Is it really necessary to publish while doing a PhD?
	Writing an abstract.
	Revising and editing.
	Revision.
	Editing.
	Some writing tips.