3/31/2023 0 Comments Multipanel figure![]() If you have followed the approach of this blog, your figures already come with handy labels (Setup, Confrontation, Resolution, Epilogue) and therefore you already have a good overall idea of their order. Here, a solid, tried-and-tested approach is to begin with the figures and their order of appearance. What is more involved is choosing the order of presentation within the section structure. Methods may be explained before the results, or after the discussion as an appendix of sorts (like in Nature and other glossy magazines). Usually, this is not a difficult task: all scientific papers begin with an introduction and end with a discussion, even if these span just a few paragraphs, and the results are sandwiched in between. Even for short letter-format papers that may or may not have subheadings, it pays off to have a clear idea of what goes where. Depending on your target journal, you may need to follow strict guidelines-the commonly used Introduction–Methods–Results–Discussion structure for instance-or to come up with a structure of your own. This begins with choosing what sections make up your paper. The next step is to expand the storyline laid out by the abstract and to outline the different sections of your paper. You should also have the necessary ingredients at hand: the results to be presented in your paper together with ideas for schematic diagrams, organised into film-script categories according to their function and role in the story (Setup, Confrontation, Resolution, Epilogue). ![]() At this point, we have covered establishing the focus of your scientific paper: you should already have a clear vision of what your paper is about, and the essence of this vision should be encapsulated in its abstract. ![]()
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