title: Twelve tips on writing abstracts and titles: How to get people to use and cite your work.
abstract: The authors share 12 practical tips on creating effective titles and abstracts for a journal publication or conference presentation. When crafting a title authors should: (1) start thinking of the title from the start; (2) brainstorm many key words, create permutations, and ask others for input; (3) strive for an informative and indicative title; (4) start the title with the most important words; and (5) wait to finalize the title until the very end. When writing the abstract, authors should: (6) wait until the end to write the abstract; (7) copy and paste from main text as the starting point; (8) start with a detailed structured format; (9) describe what they did; (10) describe what they found; (11) highlight what readers can do with this information; and (12) ensure that the abstract aligns with the full text and conforms to submission guidelines.
authors.affiliation: a Office of Applied Scholarship and Education Science , Mayo Clinic Online Learning, Knowledge Delivery Center, and Division of General Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine , Rochester , MN , USA.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.affiliation: b Department of Medical Education , University of Illinois at Chicago , Chicago , IL , USA.
authors.forename: Georges
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bordage
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D055811:Journal Impact Factor; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D014956:Writing / Q000592:standards