Typical structural layout of a technical paper

Note: For any technical document (paper/article, report, thesis dissertation), simple and formal language style must be followed.

• Title of the Paper

• Authors and their Affiliations
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Nomenclature or List of Symbols (if needed)
• 1 (?) Introduction
• 2 (?) Section
• Section
• Section
• .......
• Section
• 8 (?) Results and Discussion or something similar
• 9 (?) Conclusions
• Acknowledgements (if applicable)
• References
• A Appendix Title
  (if needed)
  Appendix

  A. Title of this Appendix

  Appendix in a paper (or a thesis/book) is not necessary. Whether to have an appendix and what to go in that is a matter of judgement. There may be one or more appendices.

  What does typically go in an appendix?

  • Detailed data which cannot be skipped altogether but would damage the continuity of the body of the paper.
  • Some necessary background which is not a contribution of the present paper.
  • Brief outline of any method which the reader must be made aware of but which cannot be included in the main body.
  • Sometimes, flowcharts or some sideways elaboration which is too large for a sensible footnote!
  Appendices, just like 'sections', should be broken according to subject requirements.

• B Appendix Title
  (if needed)