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Do structured abstracts take more space? And does it matter?

James Hartley

Keele University, UK, j.hartley{at}psy.keele.ac.uk

BACKGROUND: Some journal editors object to implementing structured abstracts because, they say, they take up more space than traditional ones. AIM: The aim of this paper is to present evidence to show that in many cases such extra space is unlikely to affect the overall pagination of a journal. METHOD: The lengths of abstracts were examined for 10 or more articles in each of 15 journals with different page-sizes, and adjusted to see whether or not increasing the traditional or decreasing the structured abstracts would change the overall pagination of the journals. RESULTS: There was no indication that using structured abstracts would affect the pagination of journals with large or medium page-sizes, even when new articles began on the next immediate page. However, structured abstracts would cause problems when new articles follow directly on from each other rather than start on a new page. CONCLUSIONS: Structured abstracts take up more space but, by and large, this does not matter. Other suggestions for saving space in journals are considered.

Journal of Information Science, Vol. 28, No. 5, 417-422 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/016555150202800507
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