MRes Translational Medicine Academic year 2012/2013 Division of ...

MRes in Clinical Research (Pathway in Translational Medicine) - Academic Year 2012-2013Formats and StylePlease compile the document using Microsoft Word. The text should be set in Arial, 11 or 12pt, 1.5or double-spaced and pages should be numbered. Left and right-hand margins should be 3cm wide.For figures that have multiple panels, the labels should be set in uppercase Arial letters and shouldnot contain periods or parentheses. Please do not include separate panels on multiple pages.Micrographs should be provided with a scale bar instead of magnification.Instructions for the Preparation of Specific SectionsTitleThe title should convey the conceptual significance of the paper to a broad readership.Authors/AffiliationsAuthor names should be spelled out rather than set in initials. Authors should be footnoted tocorresponding affiliations. Affiliations should contain the following core information:department(s)/subunit(s); institution; city, postal code; country.Include your name as the author but also list both your supervisors and their affiliationsRunning TitleText must include a running title of maximum 50 characters incl. spaces.Summary or abstractThe summary consists of a single paragraph of fewer than 500 words. It should clearly convey theconceptual advance and significance of the work to a broad readership. In particular, the abstractshould contain a brief background of the question, a description of the results without extensiveexperimental detail, and a summary of the significance of the findings. References should not becited in the summary.IntroductionThe introduction should establish the importance of the present study with reference to previouslypublished research and opinion.MethodologyThe Methodology section needs to include sufficient detail so that readers can understand how theexperiments were done, and so that all procedures can be repeated, in conjunction with citedreferences. This section should also include a description of any statistical methods employed in thestudy. A more detailed version of the parts of the methodology can be included in SupplementalData e.g. standard operating procedures, questionnaires used, details of assays etc, but it is notappropriate to move the majority of the methodology to Supplemental Data in order to shorten thetext.ResultsThe results should describe the data concisely and should avoid excessive elaboration or repetitionof data already given in tables and figures. Extensive interpretation of the results should bepresented in the discussion section, not the results. The results may be divided by subheadings.Explicit citation of each figure or table is necessary, and each figure or table should stand alone inthat is it understandable without reading the accompanying text.34