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Basic Composition of a Biomedical Research Paper
The basic format of a biomedical research paper (sometimes called the IMRAD format) is: title, abstract, Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, And Discussion, and references.
However, some journals follow a different order. For example, in Nature the methods are placed at the end of the paper. If you have a target journal in mind, get a copy of a few articles from that journal. Check the order of the article, also check the length of each section.
A rough guide might be:
Introduction: | 1 page |
Materials and Methods: | 3 pages |
Results: | 4 pages |
Discussion: | 3 to 4 pages |
References: | about 30 |
Keep this in mind as you write.
Order of writing a paper
