"following a method" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, "To create a successful product, we must ensure we are following a method that will produce the desired outcome."
Plasma lipid peroxidation was determined following a method previously described30.
Conceptual art is often like that, I guess, the artist following a method or system or mining a thought, feeling or crack in consciousness.
Using part of the data generated, a viscoplastic model was developed following a method proposed by Nordin.
Fragility curves were developed from the buildings' response to 44 scaled ground motion records following a method adapted from the FEMA P695 analysis methodology.
Protein staining was carried out on embedded cross sections following a method detailed by Schäfer [8].
Surface functionalization of CMCs was carried out by oxidation following a method already reported [18].
PG was extracted from the E. coli DH5α strain by following a method described previously (Desmarais et al., 2014).
All free text data was analysed broadly following a method of qualitative content analysis described by Cohen et al. [23].
Transformation of "c-disordered" H+-birnessite into todorokite was following a method adapted from Feng et al. [11, 20].
Rehydrated samples were analysed by reverse-phase high-pressure liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) following a method modified after Kaufman and Manley [58].
The illiquidity measure used in this paper is the ILLIQ measure from Amihud (2002), normalized following a method similar to the one described by Acharya and Pedersen (2005).
