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You can post about research papers and news on topics about conditions related to ME/CFS in this sub-forum.
Conditions related to ME/CFS include fibromyalgia and Gulf War Illness.
If you are posting a paper, here are some guidelines. Following these can help people find the thread, avoid duplicate threads, and quickly get key information.
Research Papers
Title
Format: Study title, year, first author - Add an 'et al' if there is more than one author.
Example: Predicting personality traits from resting-state fMRI, 2017, Dubois et al
Where the thread title would exceed the character limit, you can shorten it, retaining key words and using abbreviations and acronyms (e.g. ME/CFS). Use '...' to indicate missing words. Add more authors if you want to highlight a particular author who isn't the first author.
Where a title is not self explanatory, add a short comment after the title, year and author, for example you might add [research includes ME/CFS]. Please do not add a personal opinion about the paper to the title, for example do not add 'more BPS rubbish' to the title.
Post text
The first post is reserved for key information about the paper:
To make posting papers easier, one of our members has developed a tool for automatically generating the proper formatting for a post. You can find details about the tool here: Tool to help when posting papers
News articles
For news, add the source before the title:
Source: Article name, year, author
e.g. Nature: Mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell, 2020, Lee
Tags
Identify some key words and add those as tags on the left, just under the title.
Thanks for posting! If you aren't sure about anything, contact the moderators.
Conditions related to ME/CFS include fibromyalgia and Gulf War Illness.
If you are posting a paper, here are some guidelines. Following these can help people find the thread, avoid duplicate threads, and quickly get key information.
Research Papers
Title
Format: Study title, year, first author - Add an 'et al' if there is more than one author.
Example: Predicting personality traits from resting-state fMRI, 2017, Dubois et al
Where the thread title would exceed the character limit, you can shorten it, retaining key words and using abbreviations and acronyms (e.g. ME/CFS). Use '...' to indicate missing words. Add more authors if you want to highlight a particular author who isn't the first author.
Where a title is not self explanatory, add a short comment after the title, year and author, for example you might add [research includes ME/CFS]. Please do not add a personal opinion about the paper to the title, for example do not add 'more BPS rubbish' to the title.
Post text
The first post is reserved for key information about the paper:
- Full title of the paper
- Authors' names
- Abstract in full
- Link to the paper, and where relevant to a pdf or sci-hub.
To make posting papers easier, one of our members has developed a tool for automatically generating the proper formatting for a post. You can find details about the tool here: Tool to help when posting papersNews articles
For news, add the source before the title:
Source: Article name, year, author
e.g. Nature: Mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell, 2020, Lee
Tags
Identify some key words and add those as tags on the left, just under the title.
Thanks for posting! If you aren't sure about anything, contact the moderators.
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