ABSTRACT

Your paper should include all the results that are necessary to convince the reader that your conclusions are valid. However, you might have some results, for example, Figures and Tables, that are not essential to your argument but that strengthen its foundations. Space limitations might prevent you from including these results in your paper but many journals now allow authors to publish such results on the internet under the heading “Supplementary Information.” Moreover, some editors and reviewers now suggest that authors should remove certain results from their papers and publish them on the internet as Supplementary Information. The instructions for the preparation of Supplementary Information are generally very specific and you should follow them to the letter.