For the main file, see: 240116-1701 LaTeX best practices

Camera-ready checklist

• Enable reviewing mode in Overleaf
• Change package options [review/final] etc.
• Authors emails, names, order correct?
• Acknowledgements present and uncommented?
• Anonimity: uncensor names+URIs
• Are acknowledgements, references, appendices a) allowed, b) part of page limit?
• COMPRESSION: reconsider all hacks if you got more space for the camera-ready version
  • \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt} \setlength{\parskip}{0pt} and friends
  • \setlength{\belowcaptionskip}{0} \setlength{\abovecaptionskip}{10pt}¹ <- default values
  • \looseness-1
  • Any paragraphs to un-merge for readability?
• Go through pre-flight checklist below
• Manually check ALL review-mode changes at the end!

Pre-flight checklist

• Ask LLMs to proofread! THEN do the steps below.
• Acknowledgements, references, appendices: a) allowed, b) count towards page limit?
  • In which order?
• Anonymity: acknowledgements, again!
• Search for TODOs in the text!
• Consistency:
  • When to use single/double quotes (quotes), when emphasis (foreign languages?)
  • terminology?
    • (including in captions and inside figures (labels, titles!))
  • Table headers’ variables and names are easy to forget to update!
• Tables
  • Did any footnote markers get deleted when pasting new data in tables?
  • Adding \bottomrules helps if distance between table and caption too small
• Titles
  • Title Case where needed (paper title + sections)
  • Break the paper title in some pretty way
    • \mbox to avoid breaks, \- within word to mark break words
• Citations+references
  • before periods and footnotes
  • always w/ NBSP
  • Double-check each reference, including inside table/figure captions!
  • citep=cite, citet if subject, citealp in parentheses
  • Don’t forget multiple citations exist [1,3]!
• Commands/macros
  • Search for \TODO and any custom commands/macros you created
  • Check the spacing after any custom macros
• Typography bits
  • 231206-1501 Hyphens vs dashes vs en-dash em-dash minus etc
  • Smart Quotes: Either `x’ and ``x’’ or \enquote{} everywhere
  • Large Numbers: Write large numbers as 54{,}000.99
  • ~ is \textasciitilde: check any estimate numbers (~50%)!
  • % is \%; check all percentages!
  • \ is \textbackslash
  • underscores, subscripts, superscripts are dangerous
  • Avoid footnotes after numbers
  • does minted caption use the same font as the rest?
  • -,--,--- are the safest — look and remove pasted UTF8 ones
• NBSP (search and manually check each!)
  • Citations, \references (Figure~\ref{fig:somefig})
  • TODO
• Look at logs!

Things that went wrong content-wise in the past

• Read through all analysis and tables, make sure the data makes sense, the analysis/results match the numbers in the tables, the plots and the tables match to each other.
• Make sure whatever you used to generate plots and tables used the exact same data!