by Thomas Mejtoft, PhD
Resources created for students to use during and after their studies at Umeå University, Sweden.Of course, all resources are free for anyone to use under the CC license! Please create derivatives and share them or publish links to these pages.
Since I started to publish these notes and resources a couple of years ago, they have become used be students, teachers, researchers, and others all around the world. It’s a great honor that my material is used and please feel free to continue to use them as you wish. The reason why I started publishing them online instead of behind a closed educational platform was because I felt that these were needed by students, PhD candidates, and early career researchers in many stages of the writing process. If you have comments or wanna get in touch, please feel free to send me a message.
Notes on (scientific) writing
Some notes to give recommendations on how to solve some common obstacles during the scientific writing process.
References and in-text citing
No 1: How to use figures from other sources
No 3: How to cite screenshots
No 2: References to secondary source and review articles
No 4: Writing references to personal communication
No 5: Writing references to programming code
No 6: Citing content created by generative AI
Working with quotes in your writings
No 8: Master quotes in writing
Crafting visual representations of your data
No 7: How to visualize data in an understandable way
Feel free to send suggestions on changes, additions, and report errors to the notes above.
General material
Some free material that could be handy to use at different occasions.
Guidelines for discussion
These guidelines are based on 20 years of experience of running workshop and creating discussions within both industry and academia.
Illustration of the Design Thinking Development process (CC license)
Feel free to create derivatives and share them!
LaTeX and BibTeX
Some tips and trix on how to use LaTeX while writing and understanding the structure and use of BibTeX.
LaTeX writing tips
References using BibTeX
Feel free to send suggestions on changes, additions, and errors to the notes above.
Review forms
Forms (as docx-files) to give feed-forward during review of draft papers as well as final papers and theses/reports.
Draft review form (for review during draft stage)
Paper review form (for review of submitted papers)
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Physics for computing
Video lectures on classical mechanics for students in computer engineering recorded at the Interactive Recording Studio (IReS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
Prototyping
Video lectures on prototyping developed at Umeå University and recorded at the Interactive Recording Studio (IReS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
Research papers
A complete list of publications that I have been involved in over the years.
Many research papers are available Open Access (freely available). If you cannot access the papers, contact me for free copies.
(First published by Thomas Mejtoft: 2019-06-14; Revised: 2022-05-10; Last updated: 2025-02-28)