All entries should be in English or German.

Useful & good research records should include the following detail:

• what you did - experimental protocol
• when you did it - date
• why you did it - objective
• how you did it - methods
• who did it (the person creating the record/experiments....you, a fellow scientist, ....?)
• what project(s) this work was part of
• who conceived of the study (if not yourself)
• special materials & instruments utilized
• source of materials & instruments
• discussion of data - results - expected and unexpected
• data handling and analyses
• data interpretation by yourself (and others if pertinent)
• next steps based on reported results

Writing a Laboratory Notebook by Howard M. Kanare (1985) American Chemical Society, Washington DC

(ISBN-0-8412-0933-2)

Keeping a Lab Notebook: Basic Principles and Best Practices by Philip Ryan, NIH Training & Education