Parts+of+a+Scientific+Journal

Parts of a Scientific Journal


 * 1) ** Title **: Describes the study being done. (Independent variable and Dependent variable)
 * 2) **Abstract**: Written so scientists can quickly see if this article is of interest to them
 * 3) Summary of what was done
 * 4) Summary of the results
 * 5) **Introduction**:
 * 6) Background Information on topics (both independent and dependent variables).
 * 7) Previous studies/research or what we expect and why.
 * 8) Why you are doing this study.
 * 9) ** Methods **: Done so that the experiment could be duplicated
 * 10) What the study group is as well as the conditions of the study.
 * 11) Experimental and control group descriptions
 * 12) Detailed procedure of how data was collected
 * 13) **Results**:
 * 14) Tables of data
 * 15) Paragraphs restating the tables
 * 16) Statistical significance
 * 17) **Discussion**:
 * 18) Review results
 * 19) Compare results to what was expected, or to previous studies
 * 20) Explain why this met expectations or why it didn’t.
 * 21) Overall assessment of the results of this experiment.
 * 22) **References**:
 * 23) Author. Title. Journal Issue number: page, year
 * 24) Author. Title. Organization. Date. Web