Sample-preparation methods, which are assumed to be completely factual reports of what an author did, should have a high believability and thus belong early in a paper.

• 现在，我也已经作为编辑和审稿人有17年了，从我审过的无数的论文和与论文数量几乎相等的不幸的作者身上，我感觉到审稿人打击或者拒绝某些论文的根本原因还是这些论文确实存在很多缺点。