Paul put it nicely the other day, one of the “deadly sins” of manuscript submission would be non-compliance, i.e. if authors do not comply with the formatting requirements of a journal. Admittedly, instructions can be vague or underdeveloped, but if a journal or conference e.g. asks for a structured abstract, how difficult can it be to fill in the blanks in each category? ISL as well as Nofoma introduced structured abstracts as to help younger researchers in selling their ideas in just 200 words, i.e. to be able to write an abstract in the first place. Templates and style sheet are surely developed to help authors to get accepted, so why aren’t they ever followed?
Gyöngyi
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