Having completed the outline of your review, you are ready to write the text. The text should flow easily from your outline model and fill in the details of your outline. All results or ideas that are not common knowledge must be cited. Also every article listed in your references must be cited in the text. From 15 or more references, it will be difficult to write a review of less than 7 pages. Work toward 8 to 12 pages (double spaced, 12 point font, 1 inch margins on all four sides) of text. If your initial draft falls short, check to make sure that you are discussing the topics in reasonable detail. Your review should provide enough detail such that your reader has a good idea of what they will find in the primary research articles you are referencing. Conversely, if your initial draft is long, make sure that you are not belaboring some points.

When citing, it is acceptable to reference multiple papers for the same or similar ideas, experiments or conclusions. Please take note of how these multiple citations are constructed in your chosen journal model.

Also many reviews include figures or tables. These can either be reprinted from articles with permission of the copyright holder (you can assume that you have received permission to use a figure or table if you properly cite the source) or compiled from multiple sources. In the latter case, be sure to cite all sources. Also, you must make reference to each table and figure in the text of your review.

Journal articles are not formatted for the journal until near completion of the publication process. You should format your review in what is known as manuscript format. This format is easily achieved with a word processor, and it is rather simple in comparison to the typesetting used in journals.

• Here is a sample review in manuscript format.
• For comparison, here is the same article formatted as it appeared in the journal.

Please refer to this article in manuscript format as an example for formatting your review. The salient features of the manuscript format are as follows. See the Biochemistry Author Guidelines for full details on the manuscript format of Biochemistry.

First Page

• Complete title
• Running title–this is a brief description of the paper that usually appears at the top of every other page in the journal—typically less than 50 characters.
• Keywords used for indexing the article
• List of authors
• Affiliations
• Full contact information for the corresponding author
• Numbers of pages, tables and figures

Second Page

• Your review text begins on the second page with your abstract and runs continuously to the end of the text. You may divide your review into sections, if desired.

After the Text (note all except references are optional)

• Acknowledgements
• References
• Tables with legends
• Figure legends
• Figures (one figure per page)
• Note that references may be included with table and figure legends. Check your journal model to see how these citations are handled.

Your assignment is due on 11 or 13 March, 2026.