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Structure your paper and abstract

Body text

The recommended scheme of the article follows the IMRaD format (Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion) and  responds to the questions below:

Introduction and Importance (research justification)

• What is the problem and why it is important?
• What is the current state, the gaps or problems in the field?
• What is the purpose of the study (hypotheses, objectives or research questions)?

Methods and materials

• How the problem was solved (refer to commonly used methods rather than describe them in full detail)?
• What materials were used (data, tools and techniques)?

Results

• What are the findings?

Discussion

• What did the study show (re-discussing again the study's problem in the light of the results)?
• How the results relate to other studies in the field?
• How the research is a novel contribution relative to previous research
• What are the implications for current thinking or practice?
• What are the limitations of the study?
• What are the perspectives for further research?

Conclusions

• What are the main points and the contribution of the research to the current state-of-the-art?

 

Abstract

Abstract is a concise summary of the entire article. Typical abstract includes the following items:

• Purpose of the study
• Methods and materials used
• Main findings
• Principal conclusions