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Structure of journal paper

  • Understanding the structure helps efficiently read paper.

Abstract

  • A short summary of the paper.
  • In many finance/econ journals, abstract is limited to 100 words or less.
  • Authors: primary advertisement of the paper they write.
  • Reader: good way to find out if this paper is relavant or what is the contribution without reading the whole paper.
  • Useful tips to read abstract:
    • You may not understand the meaning of abtract at first.
    • Read several times: everytime you finish reading each sections (introduction, etc)
    • Read it with your own questions:

1. Introduction

  • Introduction contains the following components. Often they are explicitly divided as subsections (1.1, 1.2, etc)
    • Background/Motivation: what is research question? and why you study this topic?
    • Literature review: existing papers on the same question.
    • Contribution of the study: why this paper should be published?
  • Typically ends with This paper is organized as follows. Section 2 discusses ...:
  • There is no strict rule on how to organize introduction.

2. Data/Method (Preliminary)

  • Describe data, method (existing and new)

3. Main Result (Contribution)

  • State main result
  • In quantitative papers, numerical results are presented.

X. Conclusion

  • Rephrase of the main result (similar to abstract)
  • Future research direction
  • Discussion on lilmitation of paper

Structure of MA thesis

  • Introduction should be written in more detail compared to journal papers.
  • Give Literature Review in a separate chapter.

Example 1:

Chapter 1 Introduction
    1.1 Research Background
    1.2 Research Idea and Contribution
    1.3 Thesis Structure
Chapter 2 Literature Review
    2.1 
    2.2 
Chapter 3 Theory and Model (Main Sections)

Example 2:

Chapter I.	Introduction
    1.1	Research Background
    1.2	Research Significance
    1.3	Contributions
    1.4	Research Framework and Content
Chapter II.	Literature Review
    2.1	
    2.2	
Chapter III. (Main sections)

Example 3:

Chapter I. Introduction
    1.1 Motivation
    1.2 Contribution
    1.3 Thesis Structure
Chapter II. Literature Review
    2.1 
    2.2 
Chapter III. (Main sections)