How to write and publish a scientific paper - Barbara Gastel, Robert A. Day 2022

Organization of the paper
How to present a paper orally
Conference communications

The best way to organize a paper for oral presentation generally is to proceed in the same logical pathway that one usually does in writing a paper, starting with “What was the problem?” and ending with “What is the solution?” However, it is important to remember that oral presentation of a paper does not constitute publication, and therefore different rules apply. The greatest distinction is that the published paper must contain the full experimental protocol so that the experiments can be repeated. The oral presentation, however, need not (and should not) contain all of the experimental detail, unless by chance you have been called on to administer a soporific at a meeting of insomniacs. Extensive citation of the literature is also undesirable in an oral presentation.