Preparation is the key to having great research paper.  One of things that you have to prepare for is Research Paper Notecard Format.  Having notecards for your research paper helps you in making your research paper. It actually lightens the load instead of it becoming an extra task that you have to do to get through with that project in school.  Having a format for your notecards helps too as you will be able to familiarize yourself with the format of the entire research paper. 

So in making use of a format, make sure that you will use it all throughout. From the outline, to the notecards, cover page of the research paper, body and the bibliography.