List of common formatting, style standards and good practices to be applied in scientific papers writing
NOTE: The formatting standards can change depending of the publisher, which usually provide a style guide for authors. This list provides just the common standards usually accepted by the majority of publishers.
- References for figures, tables, equations and source code listings usually start with capital letter. Examples:
- the project follows a multi-tier architecture, as presented in Figure 1.
- communication cost to migrate a virtual machine is computed by Equation 1.
- Captions of figures, tables source code listings and so on have to finish with a dot, as any other phrase. Examples:
- Figure 1. Overview of proposal architecture.
- Algorithm 1. Proposed virtual machine migration algorithm.