is it a new trend or journal guidelines? I read so many papers recently writing the methods after discussion.
To have Methods and Materials at the end, after discussion is a rare approach. I nevever saw this in published papers. can you give names for some journals which used this!
To have Methods and Materials at the end, after discussion is a rare approach. I nevever saw this in published papers. can you give names for some journals which used this!
Hi Heba, Usually in journal articles, they will be included earlier. Maybe in the ones you've seen, they are included as appendices or attachments? This might be to help limit the wordcount on the article itself, while still providing extra information for those who might want to know more details about the methods. (ie. in the printed version of the journal, this long methods section would not be included, but readers would be able to download it online if they wanted to.
If they are included in the main body of the article, I would also like to know which journals you have noticed this in.
is it a new trend or journal guidelines? It seems to be the latter (journal guidelines). A lot of examples of such papers (with materials and methods at the end, after discussion and before conclusions/references) can be seen at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/molecules.
Regards
Material and methods is necessary to know the feasibility of project if that needs to be reproduced or improved so material and methods should be at start to understand whole thing
Different journals have different formats. Its very important section, should not be written in the end. if the author wants to include some "details" about material n method section, he/she can put it in supplementary data.
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