The manuscript title should be informative, concise, and easy to understand. It could ignite the reader’s curiosity and insight the desire to go through your research. To ensure your manuscript is accessible, the title must contain major terms and keywords that can be easily identified by “PubMed/Medline” or other online repositories.

2. Abstract

It is a short summary of any article, containing a few sections such as background, methods, results, and conclusion. The word limit should be in the range of 200–250. To prepare an abstract, start with the introduction part in 2–3 sentences, followed by defining the aim, methodology, and later on, write down the result, which will be copied from the result section of the manuscript. At the end, conclude your study as it defines the research outcomes and influences readers to consider your point of view.

3. Keywords

To ensure your research is accessible, it is crucial to include pertinent keywords for streamlining literature searches. This ensures researchers can find your work in databases, journals, and search engines. As a result, it will automatically increase citations, collaborations, and discussions. For example: If you are working with any drug to combat a particular disease, you must specifically mention the drug name, disease, and other relevant words in the keywords section. The majority of journals require 4–6 keywords.

4. Introduction

The introduction primarily grabs the researcher’s attention and, to do so, explains the topic briefly by focusing on existing research. Researchers should narrow down the study for any topic and evaluate the critical areas, mainly uncertainty, citing, and any previous literature study or conflicts. This will automatically identify the research gaps that your study hopes to fill. This, in turn, justifies your research work and explains the novel contribution and utility of the conducted study. Apart from this, you should clearly mention the hypothesis, objectives, and, in brief, the strategies required to achieve these goals. For an original research article, the word limit should be between 500–700.

5. Material and Methods

This section illustrates how and what you have performed, which should be defined in sufficient detail, offering ideas to other researchers for executing their study. Firstly, you should define the study design or model of your study (prospective/retrospective, randomized or non-randomized, double-blind or open-label, controlled, crossover, factorial, etc.). Subsequently, describe the brief outline of the study population (human, animals, cell lines, etc.). Another point of ethical considerations must be included in the methodology section, which articulates the ethical approval from the committee members. At the end, provide an in-depth description of experimental procedures and statistical analysis.

6. Results

This could sometimes be ambiguous, as researchers examine the result section to interpret whether it should be defined in text, tables, or figures. To avoid this situation, describe the result section in two or three lines. Data should be in tabulated form, such as baseline characteristics, outcomes, and treatments. Meanwhile, figures can be used either to explain the mechanisms or convert complex data into simpler forms. This allows readers to easily understand the concept regarding relationships and trends. Moreover, the most important thing is to check the guidelines of the target journal, as there are restrictions on the total number of illustrations (figures and tables). The “Legends” of figures and tables allow readers to understand and interpret the data effectively. This provides more accessibility, accuracy, and attention to your work.

7. Discussion

This section should start with a brief description of your research findings, preferably using similar language described in the introduction and methodology sections. Furthermore, interpret your results and, in a similar context, compare them with other authors’ findings to evaluate the novel findings of your study. Sometimes, it may be diplomatic when you criticize other works. To avoid this condition, you must focus on the strong points of your research implications and focus on filling the “research gap” you justified in the introduction section. Besides this, what are the novel findings of your study? To understand this concept, outline your significant findings or a new contribution to the state of knowledge, which will substantiate the importance of your paper and its added value for the literature, as opposed to being “just another paper” on a “worn-out” topic.

8. References

This section explains the appropriate resources considered to formulate the hypothesis and establish your research. To maintain transparency, it is your ethical responsibility to cite each and every research document mentioned in your manuscript. It facilitates readers in identifying the resources. Reference styles such as APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard are considered for formatting in-text citations and reference lists or bibliographies.

Note:

Depending on the journals, the word limit can significantly vary in original research articles. Before submitting your manuscript, you must strictly check the section “Instructions for Authors” or “Author Guidelines.