How to Write a Scientific Paper

This document describes a general outline for writing a scientific research paper. Even though this document does not follow any specific format, it provides general guidelines to writing a paper or technical document. Usually the publisher will provide a set of specific instructions for the paper formatting (e.g. text and heading fonts, single or double column, references style, etc.) or will state which publication style to follow (e.g. American Psychological Association (APA), Modern Language Association (MLA), etc). Most scientific papers include the following sections: Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Related Work, Problem Statement, Solution Approach, Set-Up / Configuration of the Study or Simulation, Analysis of Results, Conclusions, Future Work, Acknowledgement, and References. Some of these sections are optional and can be omitted or combined. In this paper we provide description of each of these sections give some examples.