Mateu Arrom L, Huguet J, Errando C, Breda A, Palou J
Servicio de Urología, Fundació Puigvert, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, España.
Servicio de Urología, Fundació Puigvert, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, España.
Actas Urol Esp (Engl Ed). 2018 Nov;42(9):545-550. doi: 10.1016/j.acuro.2018.02.011. Epub 2018 May 18.
A correctly drafted original article gives information on what was done, why it was done, how it was done, the result of what was done, and the significance of what was done. Many articles fail to report their results effectively.
To describe the characteristics of an original article and to give practical recommendations to prevent the most common errors in our environment.
We performed a systematic search of the terms "how to write a scientific article", "structure of the original article" and "publishing an article" in the databases PubMed and SCOPUS. We analysed the structure of an original article and the characteristics of its parts and prepared advice on the publication of an article.
The journal's guidelines for authors should be read. It is usual for the original article to follow the IMRAD structure: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion. The introduction states briefly why the study was performed. The methods' section should give a detailed explanation of how the study was performed. The results should be clearly presented, with the help of tables, without repeating information. The discussion explains the relevance of the results and contrasts them with those of other authors. Any limitations and a conclusion supported by the results must be included.
Writing an original article correctly requires practice and it must be supported by a good research work in order to be published.
一篇撰写正确的原创文章应提供以下信息：做了什么、为何这样做、如何做的、所做之事的结果以及所做之事的意义。许多文章未能有效地报告其结果。
描述原创文章的特点，并给出实用建议以避免我们环境中最常见的错误。
我们在PubMed和SCOPUS数据库中对“如何撰写科学文章”“原创文章的结构”和“发表文章”等术语进行了系统检索。我们分析了原创文章的结构及其各部分的特点，并编写了关于文章发表的建议。
应阅读期刊的作者指南。原创文章通常遵循IMRAD结构：引言、方法、结果和讨论。引言简要说明进行该研究的原因。方法部分应详细解释该研究是如何进行的。结果应借助表格清晰呈现，避免重复信息。讨论解释结果的相关性，并将其与其他作者的结果进行对比。必须包含任何局限性以及由结果支持的结论。
正确撰写原创文章需要练习，并且必须有出色的研究工作作为支撑才能发表。
