?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=An+Evaluation+of+Structured+Abstracts+in+Journals+Published+by+the+British+Psychological+Society&rft.creator=Hartley%2C+James&rft.creator=Benjamin%2C+Michele&rft.subject=Applied+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=Background.+In+1997+four+journals+published+by+the+British+Psychological+Society+-+the+British+Journal+of+Clinical+Psychology%2C+the+British+Journal+of+Educational+Psychology%2C+the+British+Journal+of+Health+Psychology%2C+and+Legal+and+Criminological+Psychology+-+began+publishing+structured+abstracts.++Aims.+The+aim+of+the+studies+reported+here+was+to+assess+the+effectiveness+of+these+structured+abstracts+by+comparing+them+with+original+versions+written+in+a+traditional%2C+unstructured%2C+format.++Method.+The+authors+of+articles+accepted+for+publication+in+the+four+journals+were+asked+to+supply+copies+of+their+original+traditional+abstracts+(written+when+the+paper+was+submitted)+together+with+copies+of+their+structured+abstracts+(when+the+paper+was+revised).+48+such+requests+were+made%2C+and+30+pairs+of+abstracts+were+obtained.+These+abstracts+were+then+compared+on+a+number+of+measures.++Results.+Analysis+showed+that+the+structured+abstracts+were+significantly+more+readable%2C+significantly+longer%2C+and+significantly+more+informative+than+the+traditional+ones.+Judges+assessed+the+contents+of+the+structured+abstracts+more+quickly+and+with+significantly+less+difficulty+than+they+did+the+traditional+ones.+Almost+every+respondent+expressed+positive+attitudes+to+structured+abstracts.++Conclusions.+The+structured+abstracts+fared+significantly+better+than+the+traditional+ones+on+every+measure+used+in+this+enquiry.+We+recommend%2C+therefore%2C+that+the+editors+of+other+journals+in+the+social+sciences+consider+the+adoption+of+structured+abstracts.&rft.date=1998&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F587%2F1%2F199801001.html&rft.identifier=++Hartley%2C+James+and+Benjamin%2C+Michele++(1998)+An+Evaluation+of+Structured+Abstracts+in+Journals+Published+by+the+British+Psychological+Society.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F587%2F