Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Scientific article literateness

Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology 2014; 24: Supplement S40-S41
Read: 387 Published: 18 February 2021

There are various motivations to write a scientific article: the contribution to science, to share knowledge, social benefit, spiritual satisfaction etc. To write scientific article is a duty and function of a scientist. If a scientific research is not published, it is not accepted that this research is completed. After new knowledge was published, they are added to database and it is given as a scientific knowledge. The findings are shared with professional colleagues, and then it is presented to community benefit. A scientific article identifies the results of original research, meets the criteria of valid publication, and various published report. It is necessary that the scientific article must be a basic publication but it must be a valid publication. Scientific communication is very new rather than interpersonal communication. First scientific journals were published in France and United Kingdom, in 1655. There are nearly one hundred thousand scientific and technical journals in the world. The articles in the first journals based on narrative style (For example, “First, I did this, and then I did that”. After Pasteur, it was considered methods section important, and it was developed the IMRAD format. The IMRAD is an abbreviation: I-Introduction, M-Methods, R-Results, A-and, D-Discussion. The IMRAD format is the most common approach. A scientific article includes the sections of heading of article, abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, suggestions, and references. The heading of article must be showed the content of article, it must be short, and the abbreviations must not be. In general, abstract is on the IMRAD format. It must be written clean and spare. In an abstract, p value and abbreviation were not used. Uncertain expressions must be avoided. It must be included key words. In the introduction section, the subject of research, the necessity of this research, the previous studies regarding subject, the missing aspects of subject, contribution of research must take place. In the methods section, the characteristics of research, sampling, used tools, statistical assessment and ethical aspects must be written. It must be stated that how is done this research as detailed. In the results section, the data must be selected and presented. Data must be showed in a tabulated and/or graphical form. Data must not be shown both in table and in text. In the discussion section, the results must be repeated, but discussed. The results compared with the results of previous researches. Discussion must be only based on the data, must be avoided from speculations. The limitations of research must be stated. This section is completed with a paragraph that stated the importance of this research. The suggestions section must be depended on results of research, and realistic and applicable. The references section must be arranged according to rules of journal. Similarly, the reading of scientific article will also examined and given examples.

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