Editing IMRAD (section)

{{short description|Document format for reporting studies in the scientific literature}}
In scientific writing, '''IMRAD''' or '''IMRaD''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɪ|m|r|æ|d}}) ('''Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion''')<ref>{{Cite book|title=Scientific Writing and Communication in Agriculture and Natural Resources|last=P. K. R. Nair and V. D. Nair|publisher=Springer|year=2014|pages=13}}</ref> is a common organizational structure for the format of a document. IMRaD is the most prominent norm for the structure of a [[scientific journal]] article of the [[original research]] type.<ref name="pmid_15243643">{{cite journal | vauthors = Sollaci LB, Pereira MG | title = The introduction, methods, results, and discussion (IMRAD) structure: a fifty-year survey | journal = Journal of the Medical Library Association | volume = 92 | issue = 3 | pages = 364–7 | date = July 2004 | pmid = 15243643 | pmc = 442179 }}</ref>