29 PRS Proofreading and Editing Service PhD Experts • All Academic Areas • Fast Turnaround • High Quality too, must be taken seriously, so if you find that you simply have too much information to fit into the word limits for a single section, you may need to engage in a little creative division and devise additional headings to find a compromise between the journal guidelines and the nature of your research and paper. 3.2 Paragraphs and lists: effective Presentation and transition 3.2.1 Structured and Fully Developed Paragraphs As mentioned at the end of Section 3.1, a few journals will recommend how long paragraphs on particular subjects or in particular sections should be, but as a general rule journal PARt II: PRePARIng, PResentIng And PolIsHIng YoUR woRk PRS Tip: One of the best ways to improve your use headings of all kinds in the scholarly papers you write is to pay careful attention to how headings are used in the many books and papers you read. This will be especially helpful in the case of papers published by the journal to which you’re hoping to submit your own paper, of course, but it’s also good to be aware of how headings are laid out to deal with the challenges presented by the contents of any text. To enable topics to be located in this Guide, for instance, there are four levels of heading under the title, with each level numbered differently for precise cross-referencing: part headings appear in a large blue font with Roman numerals (Part I, Part II, etc.), chapter titles in a bold font with Arabic numerals (Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc.), chapter sections in a bold font with both chapter and section numbers (1.1, 1.2, etc.) and chapter subsections in a regular font with chapter, section and subsection numbers (4.4.1, 4.4.2, etc.).