The layout of a journal, as describe by Elsevier:
- Authors
- Avoid ghost authorship - leaving out authors who should be included
- Gift authorship - including authors who did not contribute significantly
- Title
- Fewest possible words that adequately describe the paper
- Articles with short, catchy titles are often better cited
- Abstract
- Advertisement for your article
- Interesting, easy to be understood without reading the whole article
- Accurate, brief and specific
- Keywords
- Labels for your manuscript
- Introduction.
- What is the problem?
- Are the any existing solutions?
- Which solution is the best?
- What is its main limitation
- What do you hope to achieve?
- Methods
- Include detailed information
- Do not describe previously published procedures
- identify the equipment and describe the materials used
- Results
- Clear and eas-to-understand story.
- Be structured
- Main findings (Other findings may be included in the supplimentary materials)
- Highlight findings that differ from findings in previous publications and unexpected results
- Include simulation results
- Use illustrations. Captions and legends must be details for items to be self-explanatory
- No duplication of results from other text or illustrations
- Discussion
- Most important section
- Make the discussion correspond to the results
- Compare publised results with yours
- Conclusion
- Should be clear
- Justify your work
- Suggest future experiments
- Acknowledgements
- Advisors, Financial supporters, Proofreaders, Typists
- References
- Do not use too many references
- Ensure you have fully absorbed materials you are referencing and do not just rely on checking excerpts or isolated sentences
- Avoid excessive self-citations
- Avoid excessive citations of publications from the same region
- Conform strictly to the style of the Journal
- Supplementary Data
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Checklists:
1. For a sequence of values, one unit at the end would suffice:
8 T, 9 T and 10 T >> 8, 9 and 10 T