1 Composition of medical papers
At present, the use of "three-line table" (a simplified and modified card line table) is generally advocated and recommended in scientific papers, which retains all the functions of the traditional card line table and makes it adopted by most journals because of its concise form, clear function and convenient reading. A "three-line table" usually has only three lines, namely, the top line, the bottom line and the column line. Among them, the upper and lower lines are thick lines and the column lines are thin lines, and auxiliary lines can be added if necessary. The "three-line table" consists of preface (table number), title (table name), header (item column), text and comments. See table 1 [1] for its composition and drawing.
Table 1 ××××× Preface and Title (omitted)
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1. 1 Foreword and Foreword are the serial numbers of the table. If there is only one table in a paper, the preface is compiled as table 1. If there are two or more tables, the serial numbers of the tables should be marked in sequence. The serial number is represented by Arabic numerals, and Roman numerals and chinese numerals are generally not used; The serial number and title of the table are mostly placed at the top of the table. The title of the table is the name of the table, which should be accurate and appropriate (can accurately reflect the specific content of the table), short and pithy, with no punctuation in the middle and no period at the end.
1.2 The header (item column) refers to the part between the top row and the column row of the table, and the column is the name of the column, which reflects the characteristics or attributes of the column information in the table body.
1.3 The part above the bottom line and below the column line in the table body is called the table body and is the main body of the table. Generally, the figures in the table body have no units and percentages, and they are all combined into columns. The table body cannot have blank items. If there are columns without numbers, they should be treated differently. Please briefly explain in the notes of the form, and you can't easily write "0" or draw "-"lines to fill in the blanks, because "0"
1.4 Note to the table When necessary, the symbols, marks, codes and items that need to be explained in the table should be placed horizontally under the table title with the simplest words, which can be used as a note or attached to the table.
2 Selection of table application 2. 1 If the contents in the table column are basically the same or the same type of table, it should be deleted or merged as far as possible.
2.2 If the table is simple and can only clearly express several groups of statistical data in one or two sentences, a short text description should be applied.
2.3 If illustrations and tables are used to express the same content at the same time, a more appropriate expression form should be chosen. Usually, illustrations are appropriate when emphasizing the general trend of changes in the shape or parameters of things; On the contrary, tables should be used when comparing the affiliation of projects or the accuracy of comparison quantity. 3 Requirements for Form Making 3. 1 Complete Structure From the overall appearance, the title and title (general title, horizontal title and vertical title) of a form should be complete, giving readers a complete impression.
3.2 The content is prominent. The title of the table and the words in each column of the table should be concise and appropriate, and the central idea should be prominent.
3.3 logically arranged and reasonably designed tables, the contents and test items should be read horizontally from left to right to form complete sentences. Therefore, the subject and predicate of the table should be clearly divided, logically arranged and hierarchical.
3.4 Comparison as a table for analysis, its main function is comparison. In order to achieve this goal better, it is necessary to accurately classify the data of different groups and parameters and arrange them closely according to the needs of comparison.
3.5 Many important conclusions of precision medical papers are drawn from tabular data. If the index calculation result is wrong, and the standard deviation (S) and standard deviation (SX) are not used properly, it may lead to the wrong conclusion.
3.6 Self-explanatory table is a complete and independent visual language. The content of the table should be concise and intuitive, mainly represented by numbers, giving people a strong contrast effect and avoiding too much text.
3.7 The horizontal label of the subject-predicate explicit table is the subject, which refers to the object to be explained in the table; Vertical headings are predicates, indicating the description of the subject. The order of reading the table is: subject → predicate → data. Under special circumstances, the subject and predicate can be interchanged, but the nature of the interchanged subject and predicate remains unchanged. The author should strive to be scientific, accurate and clear at a glance when designing the table carefully. A good table should have linguistic logic, that is, clear subject and predicate, clear hierarchy and reasonable title.
4 Matters needing attention in table application 4. 1 The figures in the table should be accurate and the upper and lower digits should be aligned. If there are "+"or "~" symbols in the diagram, they should be aligned around it. The number or percentage of cases with zero should be written as "0" and "0.0" respectively. It is not advisable to use the same words, the same left words and the same similar words in the form. All words should be filled in with specific numbers or words. Those without data are indicated by "…"; Those who don't do it are indicated by "-". The effective figures in the table should be consistent.
4.2 Units in the table The units in the table include * * * employer and the only unit. * * * The employer can directly write it in brackets after the title of the table, and the unique units can be written in brackets after the corresponding title, and the units in the table should be consistent with the text.
4.3 There is no "Remarks" column in the remarks table of this table. When the table title, header or some data need to be marked, you can add a standard marking symbol in the upper right corner, such as *, * *,+,++,δ, δ …. And add the corresponding text with the same symbol under the bottom line of the table. If the table needs supplementary explanation, you can add "Note: ……" under the table without punctuation at the end of the sentence.
4.4 The significance test of statistical symbols in the table, it is not enough to only indicate the P value under the table. The test method, calculation results and P value should be listed so that readers can further understand the actual differences. The representation method of general statistical results, such as x s or x sx, is written behind the table topic or at the predicate title. When t value or p value is used as the target word, you can't just write "p" and "t", but add "value". When the results of p value are marked in the table below, the comparison object should be indicated (such as comparison ×××××, t =×××, p < 0.05).
4.5 Layout position of the table The position of the table should be immediately below the natural paragraph of the words "see table x" or "(table x)", that is, the table after the word "see table x".
Tables are an important form to express medical papers. Proper use, reasonable design and standardized production can not only express the content of the paper well, but also increase the visual effect and readability of the paper and improve the quality of the paper.