I must say I never had difficulties to get to a common notation. If all authors agree that such a thing matters, that is. If authors don't care much, they are s

I must say I never had difficulties to get to a common notation. If all authors agree that such a thing matters, that is. If authors don't care much, they are sloppy anyways. I also can't tell much about the ways of journals as I mostly published for conferences that worked with PDFs from a style file.