A primer for writing for the Journal of Wildlife Management

Abstract

Write the abstract upon completion of the paper. A good abstract is a single short (≤1 line/page of text) paragraph, to the point, and includes 1) an opening sentence justifying the study or explaining why the work was done, 2) a clear statement of objectives or the hypothesis including when and where the study was conducted, 3) how it was conducted (brief statement of methods), 4) significant results, and 5) the utility of those results (i.e., the management implications; how, when, where, and by whom the data can be applied; Krausman et al. 2016a). Abstracts are read more than papers and need to be informative and to the point. Statements that indicate what you will do are not helpful (e.g., in this study we will discuss the conservation implications of feral cats). Readers are not interested in futuristic statements. Tell them what those implications are. That is what is important.

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