8.2 Outline

Your paper should following these general formatting guidelines:

  • Title page (title, author details including name, degree, affiliation)
  • Abstract page (title, 200 words maximum length for the abstract itself)
  • Main body (title, 2,000 words approximate length)
    • Introduction
    • Background and Literature Review
    • Data and Methods
    • Results
    • Discussion
    • Conclusion
  • End notes
  • Bibliography/works cited
  • Tables (optional)
  • Figure captions
  • Figures (one per page)