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. 2011 Mar 8;12:69. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-69

Table 1.

The three schemes

S1 Objective OBJ The background and the aim of the research
Method METH The way to achieve the goal
Result RES The principle findings
Conclusion CON Analysis, discussion and the main conclusions
S2 Background BKG The circumstances pertaining to the current work, situation, or its causes, history, etc.
Objective OBJ A thing aimed at or sought, a target or goal
Method METH A way of doing research, esp. according to a defined and regular plan; a special form of procedure or characteristic set of procedures employed in a field of study as a mode of investigation and inquiry
Result RES The effect, consequence, issue or outcome of an experiment; the quantity, formula, etc. obtained by calculation
Conclusion CON A judgment or statement arrived at by any reasoning process; an inference, deduction, induction; a proposition deduced by reasoning from other propositions; the result of a discussion, or examination of a question, final determination, decision, resolution, final arrangement or agreement
Related work REL A comparison between the current work and the related work
Future work FUT The work that needs to be done in the future

S3 Hypothesis HYP A statement that has not been yet confirmed rather than a factual statement
Motivation MOT The reason for carrying out the investigation
Background BKG Description of generally accepted background knowledge and previous work
Goal GOAL The target state of the investigation where intended discoveries are made
Object OBJT An entity which is a product or main theme of the investigation
Experiment EXP Experiment details
Model MOD A statement about a theoretical model or framework
Method METH The means by which the authors seek to achieve a goal of the investigation
Observation OBS The data/phenomena recorded within an investigation
Result RES Factual statements about the outputs of an investigation
Conclusion CON Statements inferred from observations and results, relating to research hypothesis