Abstract and keywords

Sadeghi Ramin, MDNuclear Medicine Research

Center,Mashhad University of Medical

Sciences

Abstract

Abstract is the part of your article which most of the readers have access to. Spend enough time to prepare it Most authors decide to prepare the

fulltext of your article and cite it after reading the abstract

Abstract

Structured Usually in 4 paragraphs (Introduction,

Methods, Results, Conclusion) Unstructured

In one paragraph Refer to the information for

authors section of the journal

Some tips

No figure or table is used in abstract

Usually the abstract should be less than 250 words Follow instructions of the journal You can always make the abstract

shorter by cutting some words or combining sentences

Some tips

Do not use abbreviations Abstract should not contradict the

main manuscript

Key words

3-10 keywords should be given for each article Give keywords as much as you can This will ensure better indexing and

increases the chance of citation Use MeSH of PubMed