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Paper Format #16

Open tonofshell opened 6 years ago

tonofshell commented 6 years ago

I was curious about the way your team composed this paper. Many researchers and guidelines in the social sciences (such as the popular American Psychological Association guidelines) suggest structuring a research paper such that the "Methods" section is towards the beginning of the paper, oftentimes immediately following the introduction. However, I have noticed that some other researchers (including your team), instead choose to invert the paper, by putting results toward the beginning and a "Methods" section toward the end. What's the reasoning behind this structure, and how did your team come to this decision?

yundai424 commented 6 years ago

I find the inverted way is quite common in natural sciences such as biology. The main body often only sketches the primary methods used in experiments and data processing in two or three paragraphs and elaborate the detailed processes in an appendix. So probably it's because neuroscience is sort of an intersection of social science and natural science.

bermanm commented 6 years ago

Yep, this is the way that the Nature journals organize things.