Editing IMRAD (section)

==Heading style variations==
Usually, the IMRAD article sections use the IMRAD words as [[wikt:heading|heading]]s. A few variations can occur, as follows: 
* Many journals have a convention of omitting the "Introduction" heading, based on the idea that the reader who begins reading an article does not need to be told that the beginning of the text is the introduction. This print-era proscription is fading since the advent of the Web era, when having an explicit "Introduction" heading helps with navigation via document maps and collapsible/expandable [[table of contents|TOC]] trees. (The same considerations are true regarding the presence or proscription of an explicit "Abstract" heading.)
* In some journals, the "Methods" heading may vary, being "Methods and materials", "Materials and methods", or similar phrases. Some journals mandate that exactly the same wording for this heading be used for all articles without exception; other journals reasonably accept whatever each submitted manuscript contains, as long as it is one of these sensible variants.
* The "Discussion" section may [[wikt:subsume|subsume]] any "Summary", "Conclusion", or "Conclusions" section, in which case there may or may not be any explicit "Summary", "Conclusion", or "Conclusions" [[wikt:subheading|subheading]]; or the "Summary"/"Conclusion"/"Conclusions" section may be a separate section, using an explicit heading on the same heading hierarchy level as the "Discussion" heading. Which of these variants to use as the default is a matter of each journal's chosen style, as is the question of whether the default style must be forced onto every article or whether sensible inter-article flexibility will be allowed. The journals which use the "Conclusion" or "Conclusions" along with a statement about the "Aim" or "Objective" of the study in the "Introduction" is following the newly proposed acronym "IaMRDC" which stands for "Introduction with aim, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusion."<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Mondal|first1=Himel|last2=Mondal|first2=Shaikat|last3=Saha|first3=Koushik|date=2019|title=What to Write in Each Segment of an Original Article?|journal=Indian Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery|language=en|volume=6|issue=3|pages=221|doi=10.4103/ijves.ijves_38_19|issn=0972-0820|doi-access=free}}</ref>