 Hi everyone! Welcome to Basic Science Series. I'm your host, Lokinder Kumar and today we are going to discuss the guidelines that are really important to write the perfect abstract for your research article. I'm going to discuss all those guidelines step by step and I hope those guidelines will help you to write your own research articles abstract in a very nice and easy way. So if you're new to the channel, please subscribe to the channel and if you like the video, please press the like button. Before we move on to the discussion part, I want to mention that the journals have guidelines and they are really detailed guidelines that you can follow to construct your research article accordingly because they are going to help you while writing your research article and if you are deciding to submit in a particular journal, so you should read those guidelines before submitting or before preparing your research article. Alright, so the next point is what is an abstract? Abstract is basically a short version of your full research article. Abstract has all the components that a research article has. For example, it will have a short introduction, it will have a short method, it will have a short result section as well as the discussion and significance section. So you have to be very careful while designing your abstract because your abstract is going to reflect your research article. So the important part is you should first divide your abstract into these sections. What are these sections? First section is aim and second section is the main methods. Third section is the result and the fourth section could be the significance. The aim section will include the scientific question that you are trying to answer. For example, if you are working in an area of infectious diseases, so that could be a particular infectious disease and you have to mention that what is the important scientific question that you want to answer in your research article. It could be the bacterial infection, it could be viral infection. So you have to mention that in the aim section of your study and then if you are trying to answer that particular question with a therapy or producing some drugs, so you can mention that there is an urgent need of a therapeutic compound against this infectious disease. So that could be the construct of your aim section. Your second section, which is a method section is also very important because most of the researchers, they are looking for various tools and techniques that are used by other researchers to answer a specific scientific question. So if you mention all the techniques that you have done in your research article in the abstract section, that will help you to actually reach out most of the researchers in that particular research area because they might be looking for all those methods and they will find your paper and they will read your method section. So it is really important that you mention all the techniques and tools that you have used in your research article in the particular method section of your abstract. Then comes your results section. In the results section of the abstract, it is really important that you mention what is the key result or what are the important results that you have achieved while doing the research study. So if you mention all those key results or key findings in the abstract, audience is going to get excited and get stimulated to read your full research article. Therefore, it is really important that you should write the key results in your abstract section. The next part in your abstract is the significance. So whatever results you have got in your result section or in your study, you have to mention what is the importance of that result. Keeping in mind what is the research question that you want to answer. So it is really important because that will signify whatever you have done in your research article and you have to be very clear on that particular point. So you have to clearly mention what is the significance of your research study in terms of the particular research question that you want to answer. Alright, so these are the points that I wanted to discuss with you guys about the abstract of a research article. So again, there are four major points. One is the aim, that what is the scientific question. Second is the method section. What are the key methods that are used in the research study. Third is the result section. That what are the findings, main findings of your research study. And fourth is the significance that what is the meaning of your result and how it is important to your particular scientific question. Alright, everyone. So that was from my side. Thank you for watching the video. And if you like the video, press the like button. 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