title: [How to write an effective English title for an andrological paper?].
abstract: The title is the epitome as well as a most important part of an article. An effective title is required to be concise, informative and sensitive to electronic retrieval. In writing an English title for an andrological paper, the Chinese author should have a good knowledge of their basic requirements, functional types, common syntactic structures and unique language features. Besides, he must be aware of the discrepancies between the Chinese and the English people in their culture-oriented ways of thinking and representation and break away from the influence of their native language so as to produce an effective and idiomatic English title.
authors.affiliation: Training Center for Medical Professionals, Nanjing General Hospital of Nanjing Military Region, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210002, China. luoyh856@163.com
authors.forename: Yong-He
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Luo
mesh_terms: D004212:Academic Dissertations as Topic; D033441:Andrology; D007802:Language; D014956:Writing