The title should succinctly indicate the contents of the paper. Be specific and descriptive of your study. Use words that you would associate strongly with the content of your paper. Be specific. Ex. The Role of Fungal Toxins in Plant Disease instead of A Look at Fungal Toxins. When searching for literature on a topic, readers often…
Tables and figures help clarify your results and provide additional detail. Use them to elucidate particularly important findings. All tables and figures are cited in the text portion of your results.
In order to be able to make meaning of your data, you must present your statistical results. Report values within parentheses at the end of sentences that describe the differences, trends or lack thereof. There was a difference in the distribution of gall size of predated versus non-predated galls (Dobs = 1.5, p < 0.05, n=354…
In each paper, the first encounter with the name of an organism should be followed by reference to the scientific name in parentheses. Scientific names are made up of the genus and species names of an organism. Genus should be capitalized and species should be lowercase and the whole name should be italicized (Genus species).…
Abbreviations When writing, it is often helpful to abbreviate certain terms. The table below contains a list of some standard abbreviations often used in biology. If an item does not appear on this list, but you wish to abbreviate it, you can write the full name out and put the abbreviation in parentheses so that…
