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

Citations and abbreviations
How to write the introduction
Preparing the text

If you have previously published a preliminary note or abstract of the work, you should mention this (with the citation) in the introduction. If closely related papers have been or are about to be published elsewhere, you should say so in the introduction, customarily at or near the end. Such references help to keep the literature neat and tidy for those who must search it.

In addition to the preceding rules, keep in mind that your paper may well be read by people outside your narrow specialty. Therefore, in general you should define in the introduction any specialized terms or abbreviations that you will use. By doing so, you can prevent confusion, such as what one of us experienced in the following situation: An acquaintance who was a law judge kept referring to someone as a GC. Calling a lawyer a gonococcus (gonorrhea-causing bacterium) seemed highly unprofessional. It turned out, however, that in law, unlike in medicine, GC stands for “general counsel.”