This document provides guidance on how to write a review article. It explains that a review article summarizes scholarly research on a topic and evaluates other works. Reviews organize, evaluate, and identify trends in literature, as well as research gaps. A review article follows a standard format including a title, list of authors, abstract, introduction, body, conclusion, and references. The body organizes and compares studies on the topic. Writing a review article involves narrowing the topic, researching literature, outlining the structure, drafting sections, revising, and editing.

1. HOW TO WRITE A REVIEW ARTICLE
PRESENTED BY: Asif Nawaz
MPHIL MICROBIOLOGY (Aust)

2. REVIEW ARTICLE
A review article is a text that contains
the summary of scholarly research on
certain topics
It can be regarded as a summary or
evaluation of someone else’s writing.
Reviews are mostly summaries of
research articles.

3. WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF REVIEW
ARTICLE?
To organize literature
To evaluate literature
To identify patterns and trends in literature
To identify research gaps and recommend new
research areas

4. FORMAT OF REVIEW ARTICLE
1) Title
2) List of authors
3) Abstract
4) Introduction
5) Body
6) Conclusion
7) References
8) Acknowledgement

5. TITLE
• Title must contain 8-12 words
• It should be informative ,helping
readers to decide whether they
should read the text or not

6. LIST OF AUTHORS
• Declare intellectual ownership of work.
• Provide contact information
• The first author has done most of the research
and written major parts of the article.
• Authors between first and last author have
contributed in one way or the other to the
success of the project.

7. ABSTRACT
Abstract informs about the main
objectives and result of the review article
Usually it contains 200 to 250 words
(NOTE = that you should not cite any
reference in abstract ).

8. INTRODUCTION
• Introduction provides information
about the context, indicates the
motivation for review , defines the
focus , the research questions and
explains the text structure.
• Between 10 to 20% of the core text.

9. BODY
Main part of review article contains:
1. Methodological approaches
2. Models or theories
3. Extent of support for given studies that agree
with another versus studies that disagree
(Comparison)
4. Geographical location
It contains 70 to 90% of core text

10. CONCLUSION
Answers the research questions set in the
information
• Recommendations of the findings
• Interpretations by the authors (kept separate
from factual information)
• Identification of unresolved questions
5 to 10% of core text

11. REFERENCES
• Shows interested readers how to find the
literature mention in the text.
• Acknowledges the work of other scientists
• Compulsory to avoid charges of plagiarism
• A range between 50-100 references is in most
cases appropriate

12. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
• Expresses gratitude to people who helped
with the literature search, the structuring of
the material or in the writing process (but
whose contribution is too small to justify co-
authorship).
• Expresses gratitude to funding organization
and specifies the funding program (often
required by funding agencies).

13. PREPARING A REVIEW ARTICLE
1) Narrow the topic, define research questions and
hypothesis
2) Search for literature sources
3) Compose preliminary title
4) Find structural principle of article
5) Prepare outline, find headings
6) Prepare tables ,graphs , figures
7) Draft methodology ,introduction , abstract ,
conclusion,
8) Revise citation and references
9) Correct grammar , spellings and punctuation
10) Adjust layout