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A detailed methodology guide for authors submitting to highly competitive software engineering venues (like ICSE). It teaches how to structure the Related Work section not as a bibliography, but as a 'delta statement' that explicitly outlines the unique differences and contributions compared to the state-of-the-art across multiple publication lanes (journals, preprints, flagship venues).

This guide details the crucial rules for structuring a scientific paper submitted to conferences like ITCS. It dictates how content—including main theorems, proofs, and motivation—must be distributed across three locations: the main body, the submitted appendix, and the external full version (arXiv). The core principle ensures that all decision-critical evidence for accepting the paper resides within the submitted PDF, preventing reviewers from relying on external or unread preprints.

This comprehensive guide equips authors with a structured framework for writing the Related Work section for top-tier NLP conferences (e.g., NAACL). It emphasizes tracking methodological, data, and task lineages, ensuring citation precision across Findings, workshops, and preprints, and culminating in a single, falsifiable "delta sentence" to precisely position the novel contribution.