Guidance on preparation of the Laboratory report
Preparation of a Laboratory report.
The text is adapted from the following reference:
Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals: Writing and editing for biomedical publication. (2010). Journal of pharmacology & pharmacotherapeutics, 1(1), 42–58.
Preparing a manuscript for submission to a biomedical journal
Editors and reviewers spend many hours reading manuscripts, and therefore appreciate receiving manuscripts that are easy to read and edit. Much of the information in a journal's “Instructions to Authors” is designed to accomplish that goal in ways that meet each journal's particular editorial needs. The following information provides guidance in preparing manuscripts for any journal.
General principles
Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion. This so-called “IMRAD” structure is not an arbitrary publication format but rather a direct reflection of the process of scientific disc