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Title

It is the first thing an editor reads and what decides whether someone opens your article. This is also where everything starts: choosing and narrowing down the topic.

Topics you will find here

• How to build and narrow down your topic
• How to write a clear, precise title
• How to choose keywords

Abstract

A summary of your whole study in a few lines: what you did, how, what you found and what it means.

Topics you will find here

• The structure of a good abstract
• Common mistakes when summarizing
• How to adapt it to each journal

With your abstract ready, find matching journals with the Journal Finder.

Introduction

Presents the problem, what is already known about it, the gap your study aims to fill and your aims or hypotheses.

Topics you will find here

• How to state the research problem
• How to organize the background and theoretical framework
• How to write aims and hypotheses

Methods

Explains how you carried out the study, in enough detail for someone else to replicate it.

Topics you will find here

• Study design and type
• Participants and sample size
• Instruments and their validity
• Data cleaning
• Statistical analysis plan

Calculate and justify your sample with our Sample Size tools, clean your dataset with Data Cleaning and validate your instrument with Instrument Validation.

Results

Shows what you found, in order and without interpreting it yet: statistics, tables and figures.

Topics you will find here

• How to report statistics in APA style
• Tables and figures that stand on their own
• How to present nonsignificant results

Conclusions

Interprets your results, compares them with other studies and acknowledges their limits and contributions.

Topics you will find here

• How to discuss your results
• How to write the limitations
• Implications and future research

References

Credits the work of others and lets readers find your sources.

Topics you will find here

• APA 7 made simple
• Reference managers
• How to avoid plagiarism