Manuscript Structure & Content

Manuscript Structure & Content

1. Manuscript elements

   • Title: Organic Food Implications on Health
   • Author's name & institutional affiliation Fabián M. Flores / Universidad Latina de Costa Rica
   • Author note
     • 1° paragraph: Complete departmental affiliation
     • 2° paragraph: affiliation changes
     • 3° paragraph: Acknowledgments financial support / contributing colleagues / special assistance / previous studies
     • 4° paragraph Person to contact: Daniel Bonilla, Department of Literature, Universidad Latina de Costa Rica, San Pedro, San José. Email: dbonilla@gmail.com
   • Abstract
     • accurate / non evaluative / coherent & readable / concise
     • empirical study report / literature review or meta-analysis / theory-oriented paper / methodological paper / case study
   • Introduction
     • Introduce the problem
     • Describe relevant scholarship
     • State hypotheses and their correspondence to research design
   • Method subsections participant/subject characteristics / sampling procedures sample size/power/precision measures & covariates / research design / experimental manipulation & intervention
   • Results recruitment / statistics & data analysis + other analyses / participant flow / intervention or manipulation fidelity / baseline data / statistics & data analysis / adverse events
   • Discussion
     • anew/unresolved problems
     • theoretical / clinical/ practical outcome significance
     • interpretation of results
   • Multiple experiments experiment subsections

2. Ensuring the accuracy of scientific knowledge

   • Accuracy / protection
   • Ethical reporting of research results
   • Data retention and sharing
   • Plagiarism / Self-Plagiarism
   • Duplicate & piecemeal publication of data