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Concerning how to format content in academic writing.

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I’m currently working on my master’s thesis, in mathematics. My university’s guidelines require the use of Arial Narrow on the cover. Unfortunately this font is proprietary, and I do not have it and ...
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I am currently writing a paper that follows APA 7 style. I cite multiple papers from AIAA and IEEE conferences (such as https://doi.org/10.1109/DASC.2006.313781 or https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-3516)....
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I’m preparing my first submission to Nature Cities and I’m a bit confused about formatting requirements. My supervisor suggested I “put it into the actual Nature Cities format — replicate everything.” ...
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I've found several reviewers of a thesis requiring that all figures and table should be referenced in the text, meaning - as I understand it - that all figures must have a number and a caption and the ...
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I have an APA question that I cannot seem to find a clear answer to within the APA 7th edition Style guide. When citing the title of an article of an article whose title includes the title of a ...
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I would like to include reformulations of previously published equations and their derivation in the Appendix section of my thesis based on my presented work in the main body of the manuscript. I was ...
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I will be resubmitting my dissertation later this year. One criticism I received is that I have not used a standard method for distinguishing between software, programs, datasets, variables, and ...
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In the camera-ready formatting instructions for my paper (in a conference with ACM proceedings) I got a link which lists: The following list of packages/styles are not compatible with the ACM LaTeX ...
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I am writing my thesis and have many equations to include. Typically I will lay out an equation symbolically and then follow on with the equations required to get the terms needed for the initial ...
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I'm using Microsoft Word v16.9.3 on macOS Sonoma 14.6.1. I need to use Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition for a paper, and this calls for the footnotes being in 12 point font and the footnote ...
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I'm preparing a paper to submit to a two-column journal with the Optica publishing group. They require that you submit a manuscript using a universal one-column template with wide margins, which is ...
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When do we use \frac vs / when typesetting mathematics? I am reading ``Handbook for Writing of the Mathematical Sciences" by Nicholas Higham, and it says: A common mistake is to use the LaTeX ...
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For some journals the guidelines for authors recommend that headings be removed from figures. However, by removing headings the figures are more difficult to be interpreted as they require reference ...
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I am looking at the APA7 guidebook, and having issues understanding bullets. The guidance refers to the needs of the document to determine this. However, I need to format this for APA requirements ...
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One of my Physics professors once mentioned that he took a semester-long Physics class that was all about formatting work in the correct way: The problems were done on graph/grid paper, and all of the ...

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