How to Write a Paper for a Scientific Journal.

This paper explains some developmental stages of a scientific and professional article, the formal requirements that it must satisfy in order to be published, its evaluation and the potential benefit that the author may have from publishing it. It deals with a scientific journal as a medium that has detailed instructions for writing texts, clear structure, established dynamics of publishing, classification of quality, impact factor according to which the ranking lists are being formed. The concept of scientific and professional article is also a subject of interest within this topic. The text is limited to articles intended for scientific and professional journals in the field of library and information science. When it comes to librarianship as a young scientific discipline, scientific journals, being media of communication within the community and observation of new trends in the profession, contribute significantly to the increase of its reputation by bringing better and more comprehensive articles. It is necessary to encourage creation of new scientific journals, and to encourage the existing ones to make additional efforts to define the fields of their interests more precisely, to establish the necessary rules and consistently take care of them being obeyed, so they could meet the requirements for obtaining at least the status of scientific journals. In this way, authors/ librarians would be given greater choice of quality media in order to address the scientific and professional community. On the other hand, in order to improve their scientific and professional reputation, scientific journals need a large number of high quality papers so that editors could choose the ones based on which they could aspire to a better status. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]