Biochemistry 2484 HW: Library guide for Macromolecular techniques laboratory

Databases for finding articles on a topic

• Register for a NCBI acount and customize it to see FindIt@MU links in Pubmed

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Anatomy of a journal article

A research article in a journal normally has the following sections:

1. Title--simple summary of the main idea of the paper
2. Name of authors(s) and institutional affiliation
3. Abstract--brief summary of the article
4. Literature/Introduction--discusses prior research and states the study's purpose, rationale and hypothesis
5. Methods--detailed description of how study was conducted
6. Results--summary of data collected and statistical treatment of data
7. Discussion--reviews, interprets and evaluates results of the study particularly with respect to the original hypothesis
8. Conclusion
9. References--literature cited