Add to ORKGABSTRACT: Scientific papers are written to a rigid format, composed of 4 sections, which correspond with the stages of the scientific method. This essay describes the relationship of the standard sections of a paper to the stages of the scientific method. Also for discussion will be the timing of the preparation of the paper and the rela-tionship between the experimental protocol and the even-tual paper. Writing scientific papers is a great obstacle for many people, or perhaps for most people. But it is really not all that hard. Papers may be clinical or experimental, but most have in common that they are descriptions of some sort of study. Reviews are different and beyond the scope of this essay. To focus the discussion, I would like to pr...