Most physicists and many chemists write scientific papers using a document preparation system called Latex that produces very high-quality typesetting (like your textbooks).

The easiest way to use Latex is an online interface called ShareLatex. Your tutor should be able to provide you with the username and password to your group's ShareLatex account so you can all work on your manuscript-in-preparation together.

https://www.sharelatex.com/learn

Tips and Tricks

1. Any equations/maths formula need to be either in \begin{equation and \end{equation} or inline using "$" symbols.

As an example if you want to write the mass of Jupiter the code is:

$1.898\;x\; 10^27$ kg

where the $$ symbols (in pairs) go around the numbers and \; makes sure there is a space between number and x.

2. Images

First step is to download an image-then upload it to ShareLaTeX website (top left hand corner-3 symbols) and make sure it is in same folder as where you have your "tex" file.