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Peter Jansson
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I recently presented a poster at an undergraduate research conference, and they are now soliciting write-ups for the conference proceedings. I was surprised at their formatting guidelines, specifically the requirement that all sub-headings be lowercaselower case. Ex.:

1. Main Heading
  1.1 this is a secondary heading
    1.1.2 this is a tertiary heading

I have never seen this convention. I've always thought the preferred style for sub-headings is to either use the same capitalization format as for main headings, or capitalize the first letter of the first word.

I find this all-lowercaselower case format to be unprofessional-looking, and was wondering: is this a common convention, and if so, what is the underlying rationale?

I recently presented a poster at an undergraduate research conference, and they are now soliciting write-ups for the conference proceedings. I was surprised at their formatting guidelines, specifically the requirement that all sub-headings be lowercase. Ex.:

1. Main Heading
  1.1 this is a secondary heading
    1.1.2 this is a tertiary heading

I have never seen this convention. I've always thought the preferred style for sub-headings is to either use the same capitalization format as for main headings, or capitalize the first letter of the first word.

I find this all-lowercase format to be unprofessional-looking, and was wondering: is this a common convention, and if so, what is the underlying rationale?

I recently presented a poster at an undergraduate research conference, and they are now soliciting write-ups for the conference proceedings. I was surprised at their formatting guidelines, specifically the requirement that all sub-headings be lower case. Ex.:

1. Main Heading
  1.1 this is a secondary heading
    1.1.2 this is a tertiary heading

I have never seen this convention. I've always thought the preferred style for sub-headings is to either use the same capitalization format as for main headings, or capitalize the first letter of the first word.

I find this all-lower case format to be unprofessional-looking, and was wondering: is this a common convention, and if so, what is the underlying rationale?

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Moto Perpetuo
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Are lower case sub-headings a common formatting convention?

I recently presented a poster at an undergraduate research conference, and they are now soliciting write-ups for the conference proceedings. I was surprised at their formatting guidelines, specifically the requirement that all sub-headings be lowercase. Ex.:

1. Main Heading
  1.1 this is a secondary heading
    1.1.2 this is a tertiary heading

I have never seen this convention. I've always thought the preferred style for sub-headings is to either use the same capitalization format as for main headings, or capitalize the first letter of the first word.

I find this all-lowercase format to be unprofessional-looking, and was wondering: is this a common convention, and if so, what is the underlying rationale?