Questions tagged [formatting]
Concerning how to format content in academic writing.
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How to denote remainder in a paper in science? [closed]
I want to write a result in a scientific paper that contains the remainder of X (a real number) divided by R (another real number), i.e. X - [X/R]R, where [X/R] is the floor function. Is there an ...
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How do you properly cite an advertisement from a website online in APA formatting?
I can't find an answer to this question anywhere. How do you properly cite an advertisement from a website online in APA formatting?
Is it just:
Company. (Year, Month Day of Ad Retrieval). Ad ...
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What formatting guidelines should I follow for my bachelor's thesis if some of them are not specified by the university?
I am writing my bachelor's thesis at a university of applied sciences in the Netherlands.
The university has provided me with a document outlining some of the guidelines I should follow (like what ...
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Bad typesetting
I would like to ask community how do you deal with unsatisfactory typesetting. I have extremely bad experience with 2 journals: i) Scientific Reports of the Nature family and ii) Physica Status Solidi ...
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I am not sure whether this is a serious typos in a published article
Just now i found few short form typos in my published articles few years ago.The mistakes is almost like this: If I declare my first sentences Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is one of the most important ...
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How can I make my engineering MSc dissertation look professional?
Obligatory apology if this is off topic...
I'm struggling to make my MSc dissertation look professional.
I've been told that academic documents such as PhD theses are often written in/using TeX, but ...
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How can I refer to multiple equations with “Eq. (i)” style?
Assume the manuscript format for referencing the equations is as "Eq. (i)". How can I properly refer to multiple equations at once? For example which of the followings is more acceptable?
In Eq. (1), ...
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How to cite a bookchapter that is accepted and To appear?
I have a book chapter that is accepted and I want to cite it on a conference paper that I should upload its camera ready today. What is the best way to cite it ? here is my bibtex.
@inbook{...
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Mendeley Harvard reference format
Does anyone know where I can find a correct Harvard reference format to upload on Mendeley Desktop and use it with the Mendeley Word plug-in?
It seems that the ones available are not correct.
Thanks
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Can I demand re-submission of a manuscript that has an odd document layout?
I am assigned to review a paper that has an extremely strange page layout (the pages are squares, single column with about 150 characters per line), making it very impractical to print or read. It is ...
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Should the listings be included in the contents page [closed]
I have a thesis template that does not put the List of Figures, List of Tables etc. in the contents page.
What is the normal practice and what is the normal order for the front matter?
Currently it ...
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More or less sections/subsections in a journal article?
When writing an academic paper, sections help organize the paper and make it more navigable for the reader. I can imagine a number of pros/cons of having more or less sections in a paper, but I'm not ...
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Italicization of mathematical symbols: quantity symbols vs units symbols
The SI conventions state that variables and quantity symbols should be italicized, while unit symbols should be roman (see, e.g., this useful reference/cheat sheet). For example,
Here the proton ...
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Print Phd thesis in A4 or A5? [closed]
I would like to ask those in Academia who supervise PhD students and get to read their Phd theses. When checking on previous theses submitted to the library, I found some printed not in the more ...
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How to cite when I want to use a direct quote in the same sentence as an in-text citation with no parenthesis in APA?
For example, I want to describe a paper with a direct quote from it. Would this be OK:
Pieters and Wedel (2007) “revealed goal control of attention even during a few seconds of self-paced ad ...
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Can I refer readers to link to a large figure?
I am preparing a journal paper and I have a very large figure in the SVG format that I would like to include in the paper. However, the figure is very hard to fit it inside the paper without affecting ...
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Central dot as decimal point in top journal
The Lancet, one of the top medical journals in the world, requires 'Type decimal points midline (ie, 23·4, not 23.4)'. Does anyone know why this is? As a mathematician, I'll always read 23·4 as 92. ...
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What is a concise citation format for grant proposals given constraints on page counts?
Many grant applications have page limits. They also often allow the writer to chose their preferred format for references.
Thus, I was wondering:
What is a good concise referencing system that ...
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What is the advantage of the two-column journal format?
I am a mathematician whose work often connects with physics, so I often have to read papers in physics journals. I find that the two-column format popular with physics journals annoying, and based on ...
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Should article submissions be formatted in draft format, or in the format of a particular journal? [duplicate]
Some journals do not require article submissions to be in any particular format. Would it still be better to try and copy that journals usual format, or use a generic draft format? Would you as an ...
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Is there a convention on how to write pseudocode in scientific papers?
I've found questions answering where or when to write pseudocode in scientific papers, but I haven't found any addressing any sort of convention for pseudocode, such as syntax, what type of symbols or ...
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How do I change automatic title-case capitalisation for German titles in a Mendeley bibliography? [closed]
I'm trying to correct a Mendeley-created thesis bibliography, in a Word document, that contains English and German titles. The English titles format in title case (capitalising everything except ...
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Is it considered okay to mention all the correction in an accepted article which is typeset by the press
Let's say that I got a paper accepted to a nice journal (feels so good!), in fact of a very reputed publisher. Then, the press / editorial office asks me to submit all the source files for preparing ...
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Unconventional fonts [duplicate]
Most articles and books are written in the conventional fonts like Computer Modern Roman, Times New Roman, etc. which are similar to each others. Why aren't more fonts used?
I wrote my course this ...
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Scientific paper format / layout
If you were to write a scientific paper which must include a section on 'Basic definitions', would you put this section after the Abstract and the Introduction, or before the Introduction?
What do ...
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“Computers & Security” journal latex template? [closed]
The following links explains the "Guide for Authors" for the "Computers & Security" journal:
https://www.elsevier.com/journals/computers-and-security/0167-4048/guide-for-authors
However, I ...
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Difficulty reading scientific papers in two columns
It sounds stupid, but I came to realize that it's significantly more difficult for me to read scientific papers when they are typeset in two columns than papers in which the text appears in one column....
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How to refer to a source with “minor” typos in the title?
This questions supplements the existing: how to refer to a source with typos in the title, where OP spotted grammar mistakes in the title of papers mentioned in the reference list and wondered whether ...
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Master thesis - rules for italicizing
I am writing my master thesis in English and I understand that usually italics are used to put emphasis on a word, because it is an important or a newly introduced technical term. But I still ask ...
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Should I follow-up with the editor about formatting issues on a published article?
I just received an email from the editor of a monograph series letting me know the issue where my article is included is now live. I went through normal things recently to get it published, like a ...
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Does every single table in a thesis need to be numbered?
In my thesis I'm analyzing the results of a linguistic survey in which a large number of words are discussed. I provide a small table with details of the statistical analysis for each word. All the ...
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Where'd this layout come from?
In the past, I experimented a lot with the layout of my thesis. Until I managed to find a PDF of a standard book layout of some publisher, which attracted me so much that I copied it for my thesis.
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How often do publishers change/tweak articles to achieve visually appealing results?
When reading this question it seems the theoretical answer is that LaTeX is not perfect and manual/human intervention is required. In the TeX Book Knuth says:
But the problem of page make-up is ...
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Why do journals reformat your submissions?
When submitting to (computer science) conferences, you usually have full control over the layout and are able to submit a camera-ready version that will be published as submitted.
For journals, ...
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Citations in a Postdoc Research Statement (Humanities)
In a research statement for a postdoc application, is it common or expected to provide formal citations (footnotes) for claims, especially in regards to existing scholarship?
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Academic publishing: why placing figures on top/bottom of pages in single-column layout?
When you turn in a manuscript to an academic publisher, they may insist (referring to their style guide and publication process) that all figures are placed on top/bottom of the manuscript's pages ...
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Is it allowed to re-format a post-print version of a published paper?
I am finishing up my thesis which will include, among other things, a published paper. I am allowed by the journal to use a post-print version, which (if I understand correctly) is the accepted ...
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How to format a teaching statement?
I have already written a teaching statement for a faculty position as assistant professor.
I have three questions:
What is the right tense of teaching statement? (present tense or future)
Must I ...
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Correct latex format for standard IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide [closed]
I'm planning to submit a paper to an IEEE conference. On their website they mention that the paper should be "formatted according to the standard IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide". ...
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Mdash in transcript of records permitted [closed]
When a degree is accomplished my University gives you a final official transcript of records and a final certificate for the degree, both containing the title of your thesis. For some reason the ...
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Is it okay to typeset someone’s to-be-graded assignment for them?
I have a friend who’s an undergraduate at university. I believe myself to be fairly proficient in TeX/LaTeX; I’ve seen some of the assignments that he’s received back, and we both agree they could ...
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What are the conventions for indicating programming variables within text?
From my thesis:
In this method, the get_config_value function is used that is defined within the PyWPS API.
How should I format the "get_config_value" variable?
It should be formatted differently ...
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How to format the name of an R package in thesis?
In a thesis, when referring to an R package (a statistical software), how should I write it?
Should it be italicized/treated like a title?
Or just like any other word. The package name is not a "...
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Should I use bold fonts to highlight particular words in SOP?
Is it odd to use bold fonts to highlight particular important words in your SOP, such as the name of Professors I am interested to work with, or the name of a Lab? I have seen someone do this to ...
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How to the enlarge the font size of a journal paper [closed]
I’m a low-vision person. I want to print research papers to read. But the font size is very small for me. Is there any way to make it bigger and print it?
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Standard Word templates, fonts, etcetera. for non/semi-technical Springer journals?
Is there a standard typeface and/or word template that people use when submitting to non/semi-technical Springer journals? Previously I have always used Latex, which typically meant a conference or ...
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Do two-column format journals publish one column for special cases?
Sometimes a paper consists of lots of math equations which are too long so that they will look terrible in a two-column format. I was wondering:
Is is possible or even reasonable to ask the editor ...
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When is it expected to write someone's name correctly?
It is generally expected that European names be spelled correctly in academic correspondence and citations. This is expected, even when they use symbols not in the English language, when publishing in ...
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Should I optimize the content of a first page of a research statement (risking typography)?
The usual entirely-true cliche is that most people on the
postdoc-hiring committee will not themselves read beyond the first
page or so of the whole thing, so you should be sure to make your big
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What should be the right format for dates in CV?
I saw that most of the formats for month & year is like "September 2017"; however it is kind of cluttered. I'm wondering if the following formats are OK:
Sept. 2017
09/2017
9/2017
