What is the acceptable way for referring to tables and figures in your research papers ? Published articles in the target journals should be taken into account regarding this question.

Should the author just explain the trends or state all the values and try providing an explanation? The experience of the researcher and the purpose of the work play a great role concerning the presentation and interpretation of the results.

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It largely depend on the publishers rule but we must not leave our table and figures floating.

Thank you Dr. Omotayo

The publisher should explain the best and lowest values obtained and explain the probable causes of the situation, and to cite the results of other researchers who obtained it to enhance its interpretation of these results

What is the acceptable way for referring to tables and figures in your research papers ? Published articles in the target journals should be taken into account regarding this question.

Should the author just explain the trends or state all the values and try providing an explanation? The experience of the researcher and the purpose of the work play a great role concerning the presentation and interpretation of the results.

Regards

The tables and figures should be a support that serves to clarify the discussion of the results. If the presentation and discussion of a result is perfectly clear with the wording of the text, adding a table or figure is not necessary. They will only be inserted if to explain a result better it is necessary to rely on them. The tables or figures are only the graphic or textual expression of a result, not the result itself.

The discussion about the table shld come first before the table itself..

Discuss only the area that shows a significant change rather than discussing in full all d trends...

Relate your discussion to the theretical basis...

In a situation where the trend deviates from theoretical basis, you will need to put up an arguement as to the reason for the deviation....

It is based on the standard set by each journal or publisher. That is why most of them have publication formats. But of course, you should have mentioned your table (e.g. Table 1.) in the section preceding your table

I think you can refer to tables and figures in result and discussion to explain and analysis some of values in tables.

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This would depend on how the publishers want table numbers presented in an article (by numbers or alphabets), and how they want it referenced within the text.

But where there are no standards, one may make reference in a manner that supports clarity... (see Table 4)... or (Table 4)... or (e.g. Table 4), depending on what is being discussed.

Excellent response from you all respected scientist. I' m grateful for your depth of knowledge shared

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The table must be on everything but in a simplified way to be understood by other people

It depends on complexity of information presented in the Tables and Figures. Of course it also should depend on the subject. often to comment just several figures would be enough.

Leonid

it depends the publication format.

I agree with the answer that indicates that the publisher and the formula used in the Journal is the main determinant of that.

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It is not necessary to state all the values in table. It is better to write lowest and highest value and trends. The reason behind the trend must be discussed.

In order to produce effectives Figures or Tables, you need at first to understand the right way in displaying or presenting them in the journals that we would like to submit our contributions to. We have to be bear in mind that some readers are drawn towards tables and figures because they perceive it as easy-reading. Anyway, to answer the posted question, it can be stated that before referring Tables or Figures in research paper, you need to see the targeted journal on how does it prefer presenting Tables and Figures. There some requirements that some journal prefer to be used by their contributors or those would like to contribute. These requirements are usually provided in the journal’s website prior to submitting your paper. For instance, some journals do not prefer long numbers of Figures and Tables and some they do not prefer using short Tables that has less results and etc while other journals prefer have their specific guidelines on the design aspects on displaying Tables and Figures with their items. In general, before, decided to present or display your Tables and Figures, you need to make sure that whatever items, results, data must have best fits on your purpose on what the readers would like to see or read from these Figures and Tables. There are other things to be stated but as I said above, it is up to the author (s) or writer (s) choice and also the journal targeted or to where the work will be published.

Many thanks to you all Dr. Omran and all respected Scientist here

Number your figures and tables in then write a statement and in brackets (see fig 1 or table 2)

Producing effective tables and figures requires careful planning that begins at the manuscript writing stage itself. Here’s how to go about it:

First, check out what your target journal has to say on the issue. Some journals limit the number of tables and figures and also have specific guidelines on the design aspects of these display items.

Next, decide whether to use tables and figures or text to put across key information.(Refer to Table 1 below for help on making this decision.)

After you’ve decided to use a display item, choose the display item that best fits your purpose based on what you wish readers to focus on and what you want to present.(Refer to Table 1 below for more information.)

Finally, follow the best-practice guidelines outlined in section 3 and review the examples presented in section 4 of this paper to ensure that your tables and figures are well-designed.

Table 1: How to choose between tables, figures, and text to present data.

https://www.editage.com/insights/tips-on-effective-use-of-tables-and-figures-in-research-papers

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i think to follow guidelines of each journal

Depends upon the publisher