如果向ELSEVIER等下属学术期刊投稿，很多都要求作者提供论文的highlights。

一、highlights是什么？

Highlights是作者提炼出来的论文的精髓，主要是表述论文的主要成果或结论，方便读者/审稿专家快速了解论文的内容。Highlights展现的是论文的主要亮点，方便专家快速审稿，对于提高论文的引用也有重要的意义。

二、highlights的具体要求：

1、通常包括3-5点内容；

2、每点的字符数（包括空格、单词和标点符号），不超过85.

3、只介绍文中最重要的结果。

Highlights are a short collection of bullet points that conveythe core findings and provide readers with a quick textual overview of thearticle. These three to five bullet points describe the essence of the research(e.g. results or conclusions) and highlight what is distinctive about it.
Highlights will be displayed in online search result lists, the contents listand in the online article, but will not (yet) appear in the article PDF file orprint.

Author instructions: Highlights should besubmitted as a separate source file in EES (i.e. Microsoft Word not PDF) byselecting "Highlights" from the drop-down list when uploading files.Please adhere to the specifications below

Specifications:

• Include 3 to 5 highlights.

• There should be a maximum     of 85 characters, including spaces, per highlight.

• Only the core results of     the paper should be covered.

Examples

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA), Bioenergetics, Volume1807, Issue 10, October 2011, 1364-1369

Highlights

• A conformational two-state     mechanism for proton pumping complex I is proposed.

• The mechanism relies on     stabilization changes of anionic ubiquinone intermediates.

• Electron-transfer and     protonation should be strictly controlled during turnover.

Learning and Instruction, Volume 21, Issue 6, December2011, 746-756

Highlights

• Fading of a script alone     does not foster domain-general strategy knowledge.

• Performance of the     strategy declines during the fading of a script.

• Monitoring by a peer keeps     performance of the strategy up during script fading.

• Performance of a strategy     after fading fosters domain-general strategy knowledge.

• Fading and monitoring by a     peer combined foster domain-general strategy knowledge.

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