Bloke of the forest

Okay, cheers. Another question occurred to me: when using references, what kinds of sources should you use, other papers? How is their accuracy determined?

You don't know nothing about English grammar!

One more question (hopefully): Would it be a good idea to include some history on the subject? My idea for example draws on some other ones, so would it be advisable to explain the context? What do you mean "working in science"? And what do you mean by "alarm bells ringing" - as to what? I have seen published papers before, I just wasn't making rigorous notes on their structure.

I will do.

I was just about to get onto that. I don't think my idea will cover many pages and five probably will be the maximum(?) It isn't that my idea is actually too simple to be scientific or not thought through enough, it just doesn't cover much ground and should be fairly concise. I was going to ask whether there is a "standard/minimum" general length or does the length not matter. (Quality over quantity)

English literature and science combined?! And not only that, poetry used to present (alliteration) a physical model?! Post-modernism has reached new juxtaposed heights! Isn't this impossible?

Generally speaking, should there be a contents and "numerical headings" e.g. 1.2...4.1....e.t.c?

That's: Doctors. (The apostrophe shouldn't be there otherwise it would be either, "in the dark Doctor is"? or "in the dark; the fullstop(?) belonging to the Doctor. Additionally, is there a reason why you capitalised the 'd' in doctors? No there isn't. Or rather, the euthanasia clinic since holding those beliefs must be unbearable agony.

Hello, I'm also a Lepton!

Cheers. So as for structuring, does it go: Abstract, Introduction, Middle bit*, Conclusion? [*Contains the important stuff.] Normally, would the references that are used go at a bibliography at the end or would they be in the margins?

Hello sciencefourms.net, it's nice to meet you (collective sense). I'm just some Bloke from the forest who's interested in science - feel free to derive profundities from my name, if you want. That's the introduction out of the way... So, I'm not actually writing a scientific paper for a journal; not yet. I am going to though. A few weeks ago a Eureka moment hit me and now I think I have a scientific theory! It is about physics. And no, (cliché) I'm not going to "reveal" what it is because I would be worried that someone might...steal it. And so, I want to get it down into a paper and (hopefully) get it published. The only thing is (cliché) I'm not very good with articulating ideas in writing so I'm stumped when it comes to writing a scientific paper. This is where you come in (cliché), I was hoping that some bright sparks here could give me advice on how to go about constructing a paper. As for my experience with science: I have a decent A-level at Physics and Maths (from...let me think) and a undergraduate degree (Open university).