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A specialized guide for structuring the literature review of a sociological methods manuscript. It teaches authors how to position their contribution not against the topic, but against established methodologies. Users learn to map their work against prior estimators, cross-discipline techniques (statistics, econometrics, psychometrics), and competing approaches to maximize academic credibility.

A comprehensive guide for authors transitioning an accepted paper from a full draft to the strict, camera-ready proceedings format required by major conferences like SODA. It covers critical steps such as content compression, de-anonymization (restoring author metadata), adhering to SIAM formatting rules, and establishing proper citation hygiene across multiple versions (proceedings, arXiv, journal).

A comprehensive guide for authors submitting theoretical computer science papers to SODA. It clarifies the distinction between SODA (theory-led) and ALENEX (experiment-led), advising on when and how to incorporate numerical evidence. The protocol details best practices for honest numerics, including instance generation discipline, claim-class labeling (illustration, evidence, motivation), and proper submission routing to ensure academic rigor.

This guide helps researchers evaluate if their systems project meets the standards of top-tier conferences like SOSP. It details the critical 'SOSP shape test'—requiring an extractable Principle, a real Embodiment, and evidence at the claim's scale. It provides a routing table to recommend the most appropriate venue (e.g., OSDI, NSDI) based on the project's center of gravity.

Guidelines for ensuring academic proofs are completely verifiable by third parties, especially when theorems are distributed across multiple documents (e.g., extended abstract and full version). It emphasizes single-source builds, preventing statement drift, and detailing computational determinism requirements for maximum rigor in theoretical computer science research.

A comprehensive guide for authors targeting Trends in Ecology & Evolution (TREE). It details the journal's unique positioning, emphasizing that articles must be high-level syntheses, opinions, or conceptual frameworks, rather than primary research reports. Learn how to frame your work for a broad, cross-disciplinary readership and meet the rigorous conceptual and structural standards of top-tier academic publishing.

A comprehensive guide for authors submitting to top-tier visualization venues (like IEEE VIS/TVCG). It teaches authors how to write the 'Related Work' section by adopting a 'delta-first' contrast approach, demonstrating novelty by clearly positioning the new work against prior art across multiple adjacent domains, including HCI, Graphics, and other regional visualization venues.

A comprehensive guide detailing when and how to structure theoretical models in development economics research, particularly for World Bank Economic Review submissions. It emphasizes that models must serve a functional purpose—such as interpreting empirical coefficients, running policy counterfactuals, or aggregating to welfare statements—rather than being decorative. Key principles cover parameter identification, matching structural frictions to the local setting, and handling counterfactual assumptions (Lucas critique).

A comprehensive guide for authors submitting to World Development (WD) and similar cross-disciplinary journals. It helps authors anticipate and proactively address the diverse and often conflicting objections from double-anonymized, multidisciplinary reviewers (e.g., methodologists vs. contextualists). The strategy covers strengthening methodology, embedding clear development contributions, and structuring the argument to minimize rejection risk.

This guide provides detailed stylistic advice for authors submitting papers to WSDM. It emphasizes structuring work around observed user and web behaviors, adopting a self-contained voice that preemptively addresses reviewer objections, and ensuring technical precision in all sections, including ethics and limitations. It transforms raw research into a publication-ready, principle-grounded narrative.

This guide outlines best practices for structuring supplementary materials for OOPSLA submissions. It emphasizes the 'layering decision,' ensuring the core body can stand alone while appendices provide necessary proofs and technical details. It covers maintaining double-anonymity across all included content and performing crucial cross-checks for consistency across multiple review rounds.

A comprehensive guide for authors submitting to SIGMETRICS, detailing how to structure the Related Work section. It emphasizes shifting from a simple citation catalog to a 'delta-first' contrast, highlighting the specific technical novelty (e.g., tighter bounds, weaker assumptions) relative to existing literature across multiple performance evaluation lanes (systems, measurement, learning, etc.).