> Punchlines: “Organize the paper in 'triangular' or 'newspaper' style, not in 'joke' or 'novel' style. Notice how newspapers start with the most important part

> Punchlines: “Organize the paper in 'triangular' or 'newspaper' style, not in 'joke' or 'novel' style. Notice how newspapers start with the most important part, then fill in background later for the readers who kept going and want more details....put the punchline right up front.” I have found this the most difficult to achieve in physics papers. Usually, the paper starts with some boilerplate for that field (quantum computers can do xyz), followed by a bunch of background papers that have some relevance to what you have done. Only then are you allowed to broach what you have done - this happens at minimum by the 3rd paragraph, but more common is the 5-6th paragraph. I would very much prefer to have the central thesis of the paper presented in the first paragraph, followed by proper contextualization for those who are not familiar with the subfield. But journal editors want citations, and that's easier to achieve with the former than by the latter, by helping people from other subfields to low-value cite your paper.