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For all that matters , a badly formatted "times 12" word document is just as fine as a "polished" research article. This is science we are talking about, it's n
by return0 11y ago
For all that matters , a badly formatted "times 12" word document is just as fine as a "polished" research article. This is science we are talking about, it's not an infomercial. Besides, all journals have strict and long guidelines that all presumbissions follow. I just don't buy the manual labor argument.
- Fomite 11y agoI've read enough journal articles that I've come to appreciate proper formatting, rather than "Time New Roman 12" Word documents or "Generic LaTeX Template #17"
- brohee 11y agoDJB got a quite different view on journal provided LaTeX styles : https://cr.yp.to/writing/visual.html https://cr.yp.to/writing/visual.html Nice value added by the MSRI style right here.
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- capnrefsmmat 11y agoThe federal NIH open access standards require JATS XML: http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/ http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/ Proper formatting makes it possible to automatically extract bibliographic reference data, text-mine the contents for whatever interesting purposes you might think of, display it in apps and new formats, and store it for decades in a stable format.