Paper Outline

Review your paper

Title

• • Is the research original, novel and important to the field?

  • Has the appropriate structure and language and word count been used?

Authors and Affiliation Who are my coworkers?

• • Who is the main author?

Abstract What did I do?

• • Does it include key findings?

  • Is it an appropriate length?

  • Summarize the study.

Keywords What are important tags?

• • Insert as many tags as are allowed by the journal

Introduction What is the problem?

• • Is it effective, clear, and well organized?

  • Does it really introduce and put into perspective what follows?

  • Suggest changes in organization and point authors to appropriate citations.

  • Be specific – don’t write “the authors have done a poor job”

Methodology How did I solve the problem?

• • Can a colleague reproduce the experiments and get the same outcomes?

  • Did the authors include proper references to previously published methodology?

  • Is the description of the new methodology accurate?

  • Could or should the authors have included supplementary material?

Data

• • Collect data (primary or secondary)

Results What did I find?

• • Suggest improvements in the way data is shown

  • Comment on general logic and on the justification of interpretations and conclusions

  • Comment on the number of figures, tables, and schemes

  • Write concisely and precisely which changes you recommend

  • List separately suggested changes in style, grammar, and other small changes

  • Suggest additional experiments or analyses

  • Make clear the need for changes/updates

  • Ask yourself whether the manuscript is worth to be published at all

Discussion What does it mean?

• • Interpret and describe the significance of your findings

  • Explain any new understanding or insights about the problem after you've taken the findings into consideration

Conclusion

• • Comment on importance, validity, and generality of conclusions

  • Request toning down of unjustified claims and generalizations

  • Request removal of redundancies and summaries

  • The abstract, not the conclusion, summarizes the study

Acknowledgments Who helped me?

• • People who helped

  • Sponsors who funded

Literature Cited References

• • Are references recent

  • Do the references follow the required format?

Supplementary data

• • Is supplementary data relevant to the study?

Appendices

• • Are the appendices relevant to the study?

Author Credentials

• • Describe the author credentials

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